MV Eurovoyager

The MV Voyager was a freight and passenger ferry which was operated by Transeuropa Ferries.

MV Eurovoyager leaving Ostend bound for Ramsgate in 2005
History
Name: MV Voyager
Owner: Hawthorn Shipping Co. Ltd.
Operator: Transeuropa Ferries
Port of registry: Lome,  Togo
Builder: Belliard Hoboken, Belgium
Yard number: 887
Launched: 14 September 1977
Christened: Prins Albert
Completed: 1978
Identification:
Fate: Scrapped 27 April 2012
General characteristics
Tonnage: 12,110 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 118.4 m (388.5 ft)
Beam: 23.32 m (76.5 ft)
Draught: 5.05 m (16.6 ft)
Installed power: Two Pielstick 18PC2V400
Speed: 21 kn (38.9 km/h)

History

The Eurovoyager was launched by Belliard Hoboken as the Prins Albert in 1978 for Regie voor Maritiem Transport Belgie on their Ostend to Dover route.[1] In 1994 she was transferred to the Ostend Ramsgate route.[2] In 1998 she was bought by Denval Marine Consultants and renamed Eurovoyager.[3] She was chartered to Sally Line in the same year, but was only used for a few months as in November of the same year she was transferred to Transeuropa Ferries for use on their Ostend Ramsgate route.[4] In July 2009, a Marine Accident Investigation Branch report revealed that Eurovoyager had regularly been operated with her watertight doors open, in breach of maritime regulations.[5] She was scrapped on 27 April 2012.[6]

Sister ships

References
  1. "Eurovoyager". Seaimages. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
  2. Dinez, Stephanie (30 December 1999). "Eurovoyager in Ramsgate". Ferries. Archived from the original on 5 July 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
  3. Koefoed-Hansen, Michael. "M/F Eurovoyager". The Ferry Site. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
  4. Louagie, Mike. "Eurovoyager (1998-2012)". Simplon Postcards. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
  5. "Report on the investigation of the entrapment of an engine room fitter in a watertight door on board the ro-ro passenger ship Eurovoyager approaching Ramsgate, UK" (PDF). Marine Accident Investigation Branch. Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown Copyright. 3 November 2008. p. 34. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 August 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  6. "Eurovoyager (7613882)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 28 June 2020.


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