MS Pride of Burgundy
 Pride of Burgundy at Dover | |
| History | |
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| Operator: |
 P&O Ferries |
| Port of registry: |
Dover,  United Kingdom |
| Route: | Dover-Calais |
| Builder: | Schichau Seebeckwerft AG, Germany |
| Launched: | 16 May 1992 |
| Completed: | 23 March 1993 |
| Maiden voyage: | 5 April 1993 |
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| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 28,138 tonnes |
| Length: | 179.7 m (589.6 ft) |
| Beam: | 28.3 m (92.8 ft) |
| Draft: | 6.27 m (20.6 ft) |
| Installed power: | 4 x Sulzer ZA40S Diesels |
| Propulsion: | Two controllable pitch propellers |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
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MS Pride of Burgundy is a cross-channel ferry owned by P&O Ferries. She has operated on the Dover to Calais route since 1993.
History
MS Pride of Burgundy was planned as the fourth 'European Class' freight-only vessel, to be named European Causeway for P&O European Ferries' Dover to Zeebrugge route. Due to demand on the Dover - Calais route, the ship was converted to a multi-purpose ferry (passengers and freight) prior to completion with the addition of extra superstructure. It is a commonly stated in ferry publications and website that the original choice of name for the ship was Pride of Lille.[1] By capacity, she is one of the smallest Dover – Calais ferries, only taking 1,200 passengers and 600 cars.
In 2010 she was chartered to Ramsgate in east Kent to host the opening of the Thanet Wind farm. The Pride of Burgundy took new crew, wind farm employees, their families and VIPs right out to sea to see the wind turbines up close. She was back in service the next day[2]
On the 27 October 2012 the Pride of Burgundy collided with the MyFerryLink ship MS Berlioz due to high winds. The Pride of Burgundy sustained damage to its right bridge wing, but was fixed in a couple of hours.[3] The MS Berlioz received damage to her lifeboats putting her out of service.
The Pride of Burgundy departed Dover on the 3rd March 2017 for Gdansk (Poland) where she underwent a major refit.[4] She arrived at the Remontowa shipyard on the 5th March and returned to Dover on 25th March, resuming her usual Dover to Calais schedule the following day.
Layout
Pride of Burgundy is the second smallest vessel (after the freight only "European Seaway") to operate a frequent service on the P&O Ferries Dover to Calais Route. She has 9 decks, with vehicles on decks 3 and 5. The passengers' leisure area is on decks 7 and 8. The open deck is at the aft of deck 9. Smoking area and non-smoking areas are separated by open deck.
Sister ships
Pride of Burgundy has no identical sisters because of her conversion to multi-purpose passenger vessel during construction. She shares mechanical, layout and visual features with the other 'European Class' ships in the P&O fleet:-
- MS European Seaway
- MS Pride of Canterbury (converted from European Pathway)
- MS Pride of Kent (converted from European Highway)
Unlike the converted Pride of Canterbury and Pride of Kent, Pride of Burgundy retains a number of cabins on deck 7. These are not for passenger use.
References
- ↑ Dover Ferry Photos - Pride of Burgundy Archived 2008-12-28 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Dover To Calais | The Pride Of Burgundy | | P&O Ferries - UK". www.poferries.com. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ↑ Kent Online - Ferries Collide
- ↑ http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/po-ships-head-to-poland-119082/
External links
Media related to Pride of Burgundy at Wikimedia Commons