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Sealink 'St Columba'

The Sealink car ferry 'St Columba' arrives into Dun Laoghaire in May 1988. At the time the vessel was operated by Sealink, part of the British Rail company.

Built in 1977 at Aalborg in Denmark, she entered service, (purpose built for the Holyhead - Dun Laoghaire route) on the 28th April 1977 under the command of Captain Len Evans.

Sealink was privatised in July 1984 and the ship passed to U.S. based 'Sea Containers'. Swedish company 'Stena Line' took over the company on 31st May 1990.

Coming with the new owners was a £8 million refit and a new name. There-after she was known as the 'Stena Hibernia'. With the introduction of the H.S.S. in 1996 her name was changed again , this time to 'Stena Adventurer', the plan was to move it to Dover, but instead she was sold to Greece, becoming the 'Express Aphrodite' in 1991.

2007 saw the vessel move to Namma shipping, and is now known as the M.S. Masarrah. She is based in Saudi Arabia.

A current image can be found at :

www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=403268000

Dun Laoghaire, May 1988. Scan from a slide. Fuji film

Updated information can be found on the excellent web site : sealink-holyhead.com/stena/ships/adventurer_i/redsea.html

Taken in: Ireland / Dublin (show map)

Taken on: May 1, 1988

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Sets appears in: • Ships : Ferries

Groups appears in: • Ships and Vessels • Transport in Ireland more » • Dublin that me Da knew. • Ireland Shipping • Sealink / Seaspeed • Sealink-Holyhead « less

Camera: Nikon COOLSCAN V ED (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon COOLSCAN V ED
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0 Windows
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