Now in her 44th year and 20 years after being sold and leaving the Stranraer-Belfast route for a new life on the Straits of Gibraltar as Le Rif, the former Sealink ferry Galloway Princess still operates between Spain and Morocco as Morocco Sun. During her career, she has spent six years laid up, changed ownership and been renamed, and the Algeciras-Tanger route has switched its Moroccan terminal to the new purpose-built port of Tanger Med, located closer to Algeciras to reduce the crossing time from two and a half to one and a half hours.
Ordered in 1977, was built by Harland and Wolff of Belfast in 1979 as the first of four double freight-deck drive-through ferries for the British Rail owned ferry company Sealink. The design was the culmination of five years’ work and was based on a requirement to be able to load
