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Left: Can't beat the classic head on photo in the
dock, certainly my favourite when I get the opportunity to see a ship in
dry dock. The ship is a patch work of grey primer as the painters
work hard to give the rust the brush off. The more curious of you
may wish to click here
for some older pictures taken by Larne Ferry Web of the ship in dry dock
at Belfast in September 2003. |
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| In these two views look closely at the
name on the starboard bow. The outline of 'European' can still be
seen on the hull where the metal letters have been burned off the side of
the ship. When the European Seafarer first became Stena
Seafarer at Larne on the 8th of May 2004 the European letters
were painted over with blue paint and Stena simply painted over
this in white using cardboard cut outs of the letters as templates - a
beautifully simple way to paint on your new name, now let me get snipping,
how many letters are there in Darnia? Click
here for
Fleetwood vessel's repainting including Stena Seafarer's 8th of May
renaming |
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| Back later on these two pictures show
the new metal letters forming Stena freshly welded on the hull over
European. Also there below that section of hull are the Stena
Seafarer's previous names Union Melbourne and Puma, the
outlines of which are still visible if the light is right and you know
where to look! |
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The final picture in the set looks along the port
side, the side of the ship that gets most of the bumps as she berths port
side to in both Larne and Fleetwood. During this refit Stena
Seafarer's stern ramp was modified to fit the Stranraer conventional
berth on Ross Pier and bets are on as to just how many Stena Line ports
she will visit in their usual winter refit series in early 2005. In
her final couple of years with P&O the former European Seafarer
visited every P&O Irish Sea port and served on every route, even clocking
up a number of windfarm pick ups from Campbeltown. Will she also become Stena
Line's flexible friend now that she has switched companies? |
