HOVERSPEED FRANCE, seen in Boulogne, operated the route to Folkestone in 1991 and 1992. After several years moving around Europe under different names for different operators, it is currently (2006) laid up in Birkenhead as the Sea Express I.

MAERSK DELFT (2005) enters the outer portals at Dover

MAERSK DELFT (2005) of Norfolk Lines

Normany Ferry LEOPARD provides assistance to a new yacht on her maiden voyage out of le Havre that got into difficulties in a Force 12. One member of the crew was killed, and - a few minutes after this picture - the yacht sheered away and then was crushed under the ferry's bow. But my then the owner and master had abandoned his vessel together with the ship's cat is safe in his storm jacket. [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

QUIBERON (Brittany Ferries) was new as the Nils Dacke on the Travemunde - Malmo route. She was transferred to Brittany Ferries, initially for Plymouth - Santander, but is seen in 1989 on the Roscoff route. In 2002 she was sold for further operations in the Mediterranean with Medmar, becoming the Guilia d'Abundo.

REINE MATHILDE in Cherbourg

REINE MATHILDE in Cherbourg. Note the American warship in thebackground.

SPEEDONE, the former HMAS Jervis Bay leaves Boulogne for Dover. The company is waging a war against other competitors on the cross-channel routes with its "Stop the Pirates" campaign.