Blue Puttees in Bremerhaven |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | 2007-2009: Stena Trader 2011 onwards: Blue Puttees |
| Operator: | 2006-2009: Stena Line 2011 onwards: Marine Atlantic |
| Port of registry: | St Johns, Canada |
| Builder: | Baltijsky Zavod Shipyard, Russia/Fosen Yards, Norway |
| Laid down: | 2004 |
| Launched: | 2005 |
| Completed: | 2006 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9331177 |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Seabridger |
| Tonnage: | 28,460 GRT |
| Length: | 199.5 m (654.5 ft) |
| Beam: | 26.70 m (87.6 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.20 m (20.3 ft) |
| Installed power: | 2 × MAN 9L48/60B 9-cylinder diesel engines, 2 × Auxiliary Mitsubishi diesel engines |
| Propulsion: |
2 × controllable pitch propellers 3 × bow thrusters |
| Capacity: | 1000 passengers 2840 lane meters |
MV Blue Puttees is a Marine Atlantic passenger/vehicle ferry which operates between the islands of Newfoundland and Cape Breton in eastern Canada. She is named after the nickname of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
Blue Puttees was originally MV Stena Trader. Largely built in Russia, her assembly was finished in Norway. As part of the Stena Line she regularly ran between The Netherlands and the United Kingdom from 2007-2009. After being leased by Marine Atlantic, she was taken to Bremerhaven, Germany to be converted so as to better suit the North Sydney to Channel-Port aux Basques route, which she would be taking over. This conversion included the addition of a third bow thruster, increase and renovation of the passenger areas, and shortening of the vessel by 12m to help facilitate docking at Channel-Port aux Basques.[1] She entered regular passenger service with Marine Atlantic in early March 2011. [2]