UK FERRY HERITAGE WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

British ferry operators Townsend Thoresen and Sealink caused quite a stir in the mid-1970s, when each ordered four new vessels which, following lengthy and successful home waters careers, went on to serve operators in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea. The last of the Townsend ‘Super Vikings’, originally Viking Viscount, was towed to Turkish breakers in April this year after lengthy service as Vitsentzos Kornaros for Greek operator Lane Lines, but all of the Sealink quartet survive, along with the former Irish Sea vessel St Columba, now sailing as Masarrah in the Red Sea.

Russell Plummer looks at what became of a whole string of well-known ferries when their days in home waters drew to an end.

Sealink was created