{"id":29572,"date":"2021-11-29T20:33:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=29572"},"modified":"2021-12-16T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T06:37:46","slug":"altair-history-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=29572","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
5\/12\/1979<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
22\/10\/1980<\/td>Delivered to Sealink British Rail, London, England.<\/td><\/tr>
27\/10\/1980<\/td>Dover – Calais route. Some visits Dover – Boulogne and Dover- Oostende routes.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1982<\/td>Take out from service due to engine problems<\/td><\/tr>
1-3\/1983<\/td>Rebuild by Harland & Wolff, Belfast. Build larger Tax Free shop<\/td><\/tr>
31\/3\/1983<\/td>Dover – Calais route.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/7\/1984<\/td>Company sold to Seacontainers Ltd. Company name change to Sealink British Ferries U.K.<\/td><\/tr>
2-3\/1986<\/td>Refurbished by Jos. L Meyer Werft.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1990<\/td>Sold to Stena Line. Operated by Sealink Stena Line.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/2\/1990<\/td>Folkestone – Boulogne route.<\/td><\/tr>
19\/9\/1990<\/td>Engine room fire.<\/td><\/tr>
9-11\/1990<\/td>Repaired by A&P Appledore.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1990<\/td>New name Stena Cambria.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/11\/1990<\/td>Fishguard – Rosslare, Dover – Calais, Holyhead – Dun Laoghaire and Stranraer – Larne routes.<\/td><\/tr>
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22\/4\/1998<\/td>Operated P&O Stena Line. Newhaven – Dieppe route.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1999<\/td>Sold to Union Maritimia Formentera Ibiza S.A. , Ibiza, Spain<\/td><\/tr>
18\/2\/1999<\/td>New name Isla de Botafoc.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1999<\/td>Rebuild in Gijon.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/11\/1999<\/td>Ibiza – Barcelona route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2003<\/td>Sold to Balearia Eurolines Maritimas, Palma, Spain.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2009<\/td>Denia – Ibiza – Palma De Mallorca route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2010<\/td>Laid up for sale.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/2010<\/td>Sold to scrap.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2010<\/td>New name Winner 9 , Kingstown, St. Kitts & Nevis.<\/td><\/tr>
30\/4\/2010<\/td>Sold to Botcamp Shipping Co Ltd. New name Bari.<\/td><\/tr>
25\/6\/2010<\/td>Ventouris Ferries serviceBari -Durres route.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/2021<\/td>Sold to scrap<\/td><\/tr>
16\/9\/2021<\/td>New name Altair , Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis<\/td><\/tr>
5\/10\/2021<\/td>Depart from Durres.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to\u00a0Ship                                     History LOI Building contract Building started Keel laid 5\/12\/1979 Launch Sea trial Second sea trial 22\/10\/1980 Delivered to Sealink British Rail, London, England. 27\/10\/1980 Dover – Calais route. Some visits Dover – Boulogne and Dover- … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":29563,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29572","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29573,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29572\/revisions\/29573"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}