Stena Line fleet movements

Started by Collision-course, October 12, 2008, 04:54:51 PM

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steven_shaw

#750
QuoteYes, the Stena Voyager is in Belfast as it has not left yet, and does indeed remain in full Stena Line livery as it always has. 

The vessel is now owned by Stena Metall and the process of removing the Voyager to Sweden is underway with lots of issues to sort out for the tow. Its not as simple to tow a massive twin hulled vessel with no traditional bow mooring (Like the Pride of Dover) system so there may be some bracing added to the bow for the tow (or not) all depends on the experts opinion.

Most of the onboard furniture and equipment have been removed for use on other Irish sea vessels, a lot of technical equipment including the massive water jets have been removed  to keep as spare parts for the Explorer. There were also reports of the remaining fuel being removed late last week as the turbines will not run again while fitted in the Voyager.

Unfortunately there are no further plans for the Voyager it is going to be heading to a scrapyard within the next few weeks.

Plenty of images of the Voyager available here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottmackey/sets/72157633045950508/

Also image of the Watling Street in drydock in Gdynia from Marine Traffic.


Unbelievable!!!

How Stena could be so stupid

This is a piece of history they are destroying

mrwt.nsf

The Lord that is Griftgrub has spoken. Goodbye HSS Stena Voyager, thank you for 17 years of service (even though for the past few months you've been laid up).

pjamieson267

I just find out on marine traffic galleries that Scottish Viking have receive a stena line logo on her funnel look at this picture when your press the hyperlink here.

http://photos.marinetraffic.com/ais/showphoto.aspx?photoid=1134172&size=full

giftgrub

The Watling Street has been renamed and is now called the Stena Flavia.


pjamieson267

QuoteThe Watling Street has been renamed and is now called the Stena Flavia.

That is a very good name for Watling Street and that is a very good job for stena line. :)

mrwt.nsf


larry

isnt that what alan partridge used drink when he was hanging around the garage?

giftgrub

#757
Quoteisnt that what alan partridge used drink when he was hanging around the garage?

You are spot on, the king of coffee

1m 47 in on link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXTZQB16p0Q&feature=player_detailpage#t=107s

giftgrub

The former Stena Baltica, now SNAV Adriatico has left Naples, current destination Messina. It is due to enter service for SNAV on April 27th between Ancona and Split.

http://magazine.snav.it/promozione-croazia-auto-moto/


mrwt.nsf

The Stena Flavia is out of dry dock and judging by the VERY recent marine traffic pictures, she has had a complete hull repaint short of the full Stena Line livery; white hull with red at the bottom and white funnel with black on top. Now I'm not sure whether this means she's going elsewhere or not, but if you were a big ferry company, why bother renaming a vessel with the company naming policy at drydock, but not repaint her in the company livery?

Computb


The water jets haven't been removed, there still in place. I was on sf7 yesterday and today and seen them while boarding




QuoteYes, the Stena Voyager is in Belfast as it has not left yet, and does indeed remain in full Stena Line livery as it always has. 

The vessel is now owned by Stena Metall and the process of removing the Voyager to Sweden is underway with lots of issues to sort out for the tow. Its not as simple to tow a massive twin hulled vessel with no traditional bow mooring (Like the Pride of Dover) system so there may be some bracing added to the bow for the tow (or not) all depends on the experts opinion.

Most of the onboard furniture and equipment have been removed for use on other Irish sea vessels, a lot of technical equipment including the massive water jets have been removed  to keep as spare parts for the Explorer. There were also reports of the remaining fuel being removed late last week as the turbines will not run again while fitted in the Voyager.

Unfortunately there are no further plans for the Voyager it is going to be heading to a scrapyard within the next few weeks.

Plenty of images of the Voyager available

Also image of the Watling Street in drydock in Gdynia from Marine Traffic.


Robbie74656

#761
Has anyone noticed any construction on Voyager's nose? any contraption that will enable them to tow her?

article on her: http://www.bairdmaritime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14050:hss-readies-for-breakers&catid=71&Itemid=63

mrwt.nsf

It would be funny if the Eide Fighter was tasked with the job lol!

Computb


I didnt notice anything different about it, looks the same as it always did,

QuoteHas anyone noticed any construction on Voyager's nose? any contraption that will enable them to tow her?



giftgrub

#764
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The water jets haven't been removed, there still in place. I was on sf7 yesterday and today and seen them while boarding

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Not sure if all the water jets were removed, there have definitely been major components removed and one complete waterjet unit has been seen in Holyhead recently.

As for the Stena Flavia's new paint job, one assumes that any rebranding work will be carried out while the ship is in port as they only drydocked the vessel for a week, they probably ran out of time to put the name on the ship, or it could be up for charter and may not be rebranded at all.

The paint job is very similar to the Norman Asturias (another Stena ro ro ship).

There are reports on FONE that Stena Line are about to undergo a major transformation to a "low cost ferry operator"  whatever that will mean and this is accompanied by rumours of a major new build programme to replace many of the their ageing and expensive to run vessels for a common design that can be modified (during the build phase) for use on different routes, obviously these are rumours at the moment and based on a long term plan over the next 10-15 years.


Some interesting images of the Stena Jutlandica in drydock on this link:

http://www.landgangen.se/forumsmf10/index.php?topic=28031.msg251381#msg251381