Diplomat

Built	1978 Hyundai, Ulsan, South Korea
Size	18,732gt 151M x 23.4M x 6.5M
Capacity	Passengers: 74 Berths: 74 Lane Meters: 1,850
Engines Speed	2xPielstick (11,475kW) 17kts
Route	Rosslare-Cherbourg/Pembroke

One of 11 vessels in the Stena Searunner series, the vessel spent her early life in service with Finnlines and Atlanticargo. Seh joined P&O in 1980 sailing between Felixstowe and Europoort as the Baltic Ferry. Following service with the Falklands Task Force, she was rebuilt to carry 600 passengers from Felixstowe and Zeebrugge, and renamed the Pride of Suffolk in 1992. The extra passenger accomidation was removed when the Zeebrugge route closed in 1995 and she returned to the Europort service as a freight ship untill 2001, when she was renmaed the European Dipolmat and moved to the Irish Sea. In 2001 she took over P&O's Dublin-Liverpool run, and was switched to Rosslare for a trice weekly service to Cherbourg. She was brought by Cletic Link Ferries in 2004 to continue the route, and renamed Diplomat.

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