MS Pride of Calais

Pride of Calais at the Port of Dover in 2007
History
Name
  • 1987-1999: Pride of Calais
  • 1999-2002: P&OSL Calais
  • 2002-2003: PO Calais
  • 2003-2012: Pride of Calais
  • 2012-2013: Ostend Spirit
Owner
  • 1987: Stanhope Steamship Co Ltd (Townsend Thoresen)
  • 1987-2006: P&O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd
  • 2006-2013: P&O Ferries Ltd
Operator
Port of registry
Route
BuilderSchichau Unterweser AG, West Germany
Yard number94
Launched11 April 1987
Completed27 November 1987
Maiden voyage4 December 1987
Identification
FateScrapped at Aliağa
General characteristics
Tonnage26,433 GT
Length169.6 m (556.4 ft)
Beam28.27 m (92.7 ft)
Draught6.12 m (20.1 ft)
Depth13.80 m (45.3 ft)
Installed power3 x Sulzer 14ZA40S diesel engines producing a total of 23,100kW.
Propulsion3 x controllable pitch propellers 2 x bow thrusters and one bow rudder
Speed22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Capacity
  • 2,290 passengers
  • 650 vehicles (1,500 lanemetres)

MS Pride of Calais was a cross-channel ferry owned and operated by P&O Ferries. She operated the Dover–Calais route between 1987 and 2012. In early 2013, under bareboat charter to Transeuropa Ferries, she served on their RamsgateOstend route and was re-named MS Ostend Spirit. After further lay-up in the Port of Tilbury, she was sold for scrap and finally beached at a salvage yard in Turkey on 13 November 2013.