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« on: May 31, 2006, 01:20:48 pm » |
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I've been wondering, is 'Speed Ferries One' the same vessel that as 'Hoverspeed Great Britain' won the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic back in the early nineties? I know that vessel was made in Aus as was the Speedferries vessel.
Bit of an anorak Q I know, just curious.
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vqdave
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2006, 01:27:10 pm » |
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different acyual boat i think as i watched a documentary on speed ferries trouble atthe to p i think and they bought the boat second hand from somewhere else like the med as i remember, but i think it is the same sort of boat. Portacabin loo's, huge duty free shop and all.
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2006, 01:56:32 pm » |
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According to the anoraks guide to ships ( http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/)..... SpeedOne was built in 1997 by International Catamarans (InCat) without an order having been placed. She has had various charters under the names HMAS Jervis Bay, Winner, etc before charter to Speed Ferries for their Dover-Boulogne service, which began in May 2004. |
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2006, 02:22:43 pm » |
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SpeedOne in her earlier role as HMAS Jervis Bay...  |
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SpriteII
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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2006, 02:53:53 pm » |
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Wow, thanks for that. Yup it would appear that the Blue Riband vessel is Incat 25 and is now plying her trade for Sea Containers in the Med as
Speedrunner 1. Between you lot and Wikipedia I am satisfied, thanks.
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2006, 03:08:25 pm » |
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Just used that site to look at the new Transmance Ferry operating out of Newhaven, looks like the speedboat version of ferries! |
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2006, 09:30:37 pm » |
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Just read on another site that speed ferries have withdrawn one of there vesels on (or from) 12/06/06   Cheak to see if this would effect you! |
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2006, 11:09:51 pm » |
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I thought they only had one vessel!!!
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« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2006, 11:11:35 pm » |
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I thought they only had one vessel!!!
Me too If in doubt check out the true bible of ferries.... http://www.ferry-site.dk/ |
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« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2006, 11:15:00 pm » |
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it just makes me larffffff  http://tinyurl.com/3udw2 |
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« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2006, 12:11:26 am » |
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« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2006, 12:58:48 am » |
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Looks like they have just cancelled the one crossing. I'm travelling out on 11th and back on 18th, and haven't recveived any notification from them.
Why does it not surprise me that they have no reciprocal agreements with the other carriers???
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SpriteII
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« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2006, 09:00:40 am » |
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"Speed one has been withdrawn from service on the 12/06/06 at 21.10 for
technical maintenance. "
What other sort of maintenance is there?
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« Reply #13 on: June 01, 2006, 09:32:02 am » |
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I've checked with Speed Ferries. It's just that one sailing.
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« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2006, 10:59:05 am » |
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"Speed one has been withdrawn from service on the 12/06/06 at 21.10 for
technical maintenance. "
What other sort of maintenance is there?
obviously not from a maintenance background, you can have a field day, in this case as it should have been working it is "unscheduled" or unforeseen. because if it was scheduled maint' it wouldn't be occurring on a working day. some industrial complexes, specifically in the far east have never had an unscheduled outage, impressive eh |
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