Added december 10, 2007 11:25am

OCEAN MAJESTY

Ocean Majesty was built as JUAN MARCH in 1966 by Union Naval de Levante S.A., Valencia, for Trasmediterránea services from Spain to the Balearic Islands. JUAN MARCH was the first of two Albatros Class ferries, the other being LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA. She could carry 500 passengers and load 100 cars through side doors, but could not carry freight vehicles, which limited their use in later years.

The Albatros Class were the main Trasmediterránea ships on the Canaries and Balearic routes for about 10 years until they were superceded in the late 1970s.




They were then used as relief ships on various routes until being sold in 1985
to Sol Mediterranean as the SOL CHRISTINA, serving Piraeus-Rhodes-Limassol-Alexandria.

In 1986 she was sold to Opale Lines and renamed KYPROS STAR. In 1987-88 she was chartered to Adriatica for their Brindisi-Patras service.



In 1989 she was sold to Majestic Cruises and converted to a cruise ship and renamed OCEAN MASJESTY.

In 1994 she was renamed Olympic, and then chartered to Epirotiki Lines who named her HOMERIC.



In 1995 she was renamed OCEAN MAJESTY and was chartered annually to Page & Moy during the summer months for cruises from the UK.



In August 2007, she had a minor collision with THOMSON SPIRIT in Geirangerfjord in western Norway.
The THOMSON SPIRIT was lying at anchor, when the OCEAN MAJESTY was attempting to anchor, but drifted down across the bow of THOMSON SPIRIT.
The OCEAN MAJESTY suffered the most damage, with one lifeboat crushed, several sets of davits bent, and at least two cabins were damaged.
Page & Moy cancelled the rest of the cruise and immediateley flew all of their customers home.
The ship had only completed four days of her nine day cruise.

Added august 10, 2007 04:16pm

Tor Britannia

TOR BRITANNIA/ PRINCE OF SCANDINAVIA/ MOBY DREA
Built in 1975 in Lubeck
Length Overall 182.4m
Beam 22.6m
Gross Tonnes 15657t
TOR BRITANNIA, and her sister, TOR SCANDINAVIA were built by Tor Line for the Goteborg-Amsterdam and Goteborg-Felixstowe services. She carried 1358 passengers, and had a speed of 26 knots.



In 1981 the the passenger operations of Tor Line were acquired by DFDS Seaways. The two ships were initially marketed as DFDS-Tor Line.



From 1983, TOR BRITANNIA operated some services between Harwich and Esbjerg, which due to her faster speed, was achieved much faster than running-partner DANA ANGLIA.



She later served on most other DFDS Seaways routes, including Harwich-Hamburg, and routes from Ijmuiden to Norway and Sweden. In 1991, Tor Britannia was renamed Prince of Scandinavia. Side sponsons were added in 2000 to conform to new stability regulations for Ro Ro ships.



2001 she operated between Newcastle and Ijmuiden.

In 2003, PRINCE OF SCANDINAVIA was sold to Moby Lines of Italy. After modifications, she re-entered service as the Moby Drea between Livorno and Olbia.
She is still in service.