{"id":22037,"date":"2020-05-12T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=22037"},"modified":"2020-05-13T20:04:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:04:28","slug":"beauport-history-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=22037","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
1969<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
9\/2\/1970<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
10\/6\/1970<\/td>Delivered to Lion Ferry Ab, Halmstad, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
19\/6\/1970<\/td>Portland, USA – Yarmouth, Canada route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1976<\/td>Charter to accommodation ship to Stavanger, Norway<\/td><\/tr>
27\/11\/1976<\/td>Lion Ferry service Varberg – Gren\u00e5 route.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/4\/1978<\/td>Charter to Brittany Ferries, Morlaix, France.
New name Prince of Brittany.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/4\/1978<\/td>Portsmouth – St Malo route.<\/td><\/tr>
19\/2\/1979<\/td>Plymouth – Santander route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1980<\/td>Sold to Brittany Ferries S.A, Morlaix ,France. <\/td><\/tr>
1\/1981<\/td>Charter to Irish Ferries, Ireland.
Rosslare – Le Havre and Rosslare – Cherbourg route.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Back to Portsmouth – St Malo route.<\/td><\/tr>
30\/12\/1988<\/td>New owner Soc. Econ. Mixte d’Arm Naval du Calvados,
Caen, France.New name Reine Mathilde<\/td><\/tr>
30\/12\/1988<\/td>Refurbished by Jos L Meyer Werft, Papenburg .<\/td><\/tr>
17\/3\/1989<\/td>Portsmouth – Caen and Portsmouth – Ouistreham routes.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/4\/1990<\/td>Engine room fire. Towed to Le Havre.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/7\/1990<\/td>Back to service.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1991<\/td>Sold to Marne Invest Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1991<\/td>New name Beauport.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/10\/1991<\/td>Rebuild by Husband’s Shipyard, Southampton<\/td><\/tr>
28\/1\/1992<\/td>Charter to British Channel Island Ferries.
Poole – Jersey – Guernsey route.<\/td><\/tr>
31\/10\/1993<\/td>Laid up at Southampton<\/td><\/tr>
1994<\/td>New owner Beauport Shipping Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas<\/td><\/tr>
6\/1994<\/td>Charter to Stern Maritime Line. Bari – Cecme route.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1994<\/td>Chartered to Hellenic Inter Ferries.
Brindisi – Igoumenitsa – Patras route.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1995<\/td>Laid up after operator went bankrupt.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/6\/1995<\/td>Chartered to Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation, (COMANAV)
Set\u00e9 – Nador route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1995<\/td>Laid up at La Spezia, Italy.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1996<\/td>Chartered to Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation, (COMANAV)<\/td><\/tr>
5\/1996<\/td>Chartered out to the porn company Private, which uses vessels as a floating sex club around the Mediterranean and up to Copenhagen. Got the artist name “PRIVATE LADY”. <\/td><\/tr>
6\/1996<\/td> Chartered to Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation,
(COMANAV) Set\u00e9 – Nador route.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Laid up winters at Marseille.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2000<\/td>Chartered to Sancak Lines, Turkey. Brindisi – Cesm\u00e9 route.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/9\/2000<\/td>Laid up at Marseille.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2000<\/td>Chartered to Government of Trinidad & Tobago, Port Of
Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/12\/2000<\/td>Port Of Spain – Scarborough (Tobago) route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/7\/2005<\/td>Laid up for sale.<\/td><\/tr>
7\/2005<\/td>Sold to scrap<\/td><\/tr>
15\/9\/2005<\/td>Beached to Alang, India. Scrapped.<\/td><\/tr>
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