World's CAR FERRIES

[ombugge]

Car ferry seen in Labuan FT, Malaysia yesterday:

Serves the Labuan to mainland Sabah route.

[Olaf Horsevik]

"Vaggasvarre" at Grytøya

[Tommi]

Now, that looks a bit different Olaf, is it fog or a snowfall? Hard to tell.
Pretty tricky conditions whatever. Marvelous mood, perhaps a bit overexposured, or not.

[janihudi]

''king seaways''

[pilotdane]

Wow, that's a big floating box.

Does she run between the Netherlands and Denmark?

[janihudi]

i've posted here somewere a image from another floating box ''princess of norway'' i believe which was even more a box.
she 's sailing from IJmuiden to Newcastle/Tyne to Norway,Danmark and back to IJmuiden,as far i know.
this image was taken from the other side as where we turn at our endingpoint from our Amsterdam trip in nov.2010

[Tom McNikon]

Bergensfjord early today in Bergen


Bergensfjord by Tom McNikon, on Flickr


Bergensfjord by Tom McNikon, on Flickr

[PoloUK]

i've posted here somewere a image from another floating box ''princess of norway'' i believe which was even more a box.
she 's sailing from IJmuiden to Newcastle/Tyne to Norway,Danmark and back to IJmuiden,as far i know.
this image was taken from the other side as where we turn at our endingpoint from our Amsterdam trip in nov.2010

Unfortunately (for us) DFDS's Princess and King just do Newcastle to Ijmuiden and back again - a boat per day.

According to 'The Ferry Site', Princess and King are sister ships, having started their lives with TT Line. King had a stint with Brittany as 'Val de Loire', and Princess was 'Fjord Norway' for Fjordline for a couple of years.

We no longer have any direct UK to Norway link. There is a three times a week DFDS sailing from Harwich to Esbjerg, that's the only remaining passenger link in the north North Sea. Not so many years ago we had Newcastle - Stavanger - Haugesund - Bergen, and Newcastle - Kristiansand - Goteborg, but DFDS saw to that for us.

Only good side is that we see more of the Netherlands than we used to! Good links from Harwich and Hull to Hoek / Europoort too - as per Thijs' other photos of the Stena ships and Pride of Hull / Rotterdam.

www.dfdsseaways.co.uk, or www.dfdsseaways.nl

[janihudi]

as in sisters they are far from the same in looks,
as in sisters which sail on te same route,thats ok.
but when i am thinking of sisters i think of exactly the same vessels

i looked them up,how ugly a vessel can be.

talking about shoeboxes

[Tom McNikon]

as in sisters they are far from the same in looks,
as in sisters which sail on te same route,thats ok.
but when i am thinking of sisters i think of exactly the same vessels
have to look at the external disk,that wil surch faster than in this topic,if it was in this topic.

They were lookalike sisters as new
King Seaways history
http://www.faktaomfartyg.nu/nils_holgersson_1987.htm

Princess Seaways history:
http://www.faktaomfartyg.nu/peter_pan_1986.htm

[janihudi]

i think the shoes in this box is, size 60.000

[PoloUK]

Oops - Tom got there before me!!

Yeah - but King had a rebuild when she went to Brittany Ferries.

According to Wikipedia (so it must be true)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_King_Seaways

They ain't pretty though as built or as rebuilt!!
"In January 1993 the Nils Holgersson was sold to Brittany Ferries and renamed MV Val de Loire. Before entering service for her new owners, the ship was rebuilt at INMA, La Spezia, Italy with a new streamliner forward superstructure, a new bow door and refurbished interiors."

[janihudi]

thanks Tom.

they have gave her a better look with the bow section.
i rememberd het straightup structure below the bridge.
the King looks much better then the Princess.
my appologies Mark

[The Sea-Otter]

"Virak" today



An attempt to get one of those "Olaf" shots

[Matros1]

MF Halsa last day in route 46 Kvanne - Rykkjem.
It had to be moved because it's very low payload on cardekk. Only 117 tonn


Please have a look at my site www.fergebilder.net for more photos and movies

[The Sea-Otter]

"Lødingen" at Hamek, seen from Trondenes.

[Tommi]

m/s Vaxholmen outside Vaxholm.

[Germen]

Ferry Vlieland departure from the port of Harlingen
25/02/2012

Regards Germen

[PoloUK]

To add to the interesting discussion of 'Princess Seaways' and 'King Seaways' and Thijs' excellent recent photos, I stumbled across these.

Taken in 2006 in the Tyne, on the last direct UK to Norway crossing we were able to make before the routes were shut down. Looking across to 'King of Scandinavia' as she was then, still on Newcastle - Ijmuiden as today.

She was in her old style DFDS white livery - and doing a pretty poor job of hiding her previous life as 'Val de Loire' for Brittany ferries - or her 'nose job'.









I believe that there were four sisters - the other two being built for Olau as Olau Hollandia and Olau Britannia (Sheerness to Vlissingen). I do remember travelling on them when they were new - in less than flat weather - and remembering just how comfortable they were. Maybe not pretty, but at least for those of us in the UK, they brought comfort and amenities we'd never even dreamt of for ferry travel in the late 1980s. Spent too long on Scandinavian ships since to be easily impressed now though.

[pakarang]

A new car-ferry for Norled.... an improved Korsfjord?

http://www.aftenbladet.no/energi/Nye...l#.T00vEcyBCjG