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Then she would sail summer luxary crusis from Esbjerg, up along the Norwegian coast and into the fjords, following the old [[Hurtigruten]] trail to Northcap and back. Stops included, but was not limited to: Bergen, Andersness, Geiranger, Honningsvag. |
Then she would sail summer luxary crusis from Esbjerg, up along the Norwegian coast and into the fjords, following the old [[Hurtigruten]] trail to Northcap and back. Stops included, but was not limited to: Bergen, Andersness, Geiranger, Honningsvag. |
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Outside the summer season she would sail Esbjerg-Thorshavn and Esbjerg-Newcastle, on a weekly |
Outside the summer season she would sail Esbjerg-Thorshavn and Esbjerg-Newcastle, on a weekly repeating schedule. |
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In 1995, and moved to a new route, also from the Tyne, to [[IJmuiden]], [[Netherlands]], which she maintained until the following year. She was badly damaged by a fire in her alternator room during a refit at Esbjerg in April 1996, and she was subsequently repaired and sold to [[Empress Cruise Lines]], becoming the ''Mayan Empress''. She was eventually sold for scrap in India in 2004. |
In 1995, and moved to a new route, also from the Tyne, to [[IJmuiden]], [[Netherlands]], which she maintained until the following year. She was badly damaged by a fire in her alternator room during a refit at Esbjerg in April 1996, and she was subsequently repaired and sold to [[Empress Cruise Lines]], becoming the ''Mayan Empress''. She was eventually sold for scrap in India in 2004. |
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Name | list error: <br /> list (help) 1967-1996: Winston Churchill 1996-2004: Mayan Empress |
Operator | list error: <br /> list (help) 1967-1996: DFDS Seaways 1996-2004: Empress Cruise Lines |
Port of registry | list error: <br /> list (help) 1967-1996: Esbjerg, ![]() 1996-2004: Kingstown, ![]() |
Builder | Cantieri Navali del Tirreno e Riuniti, Genoa |
Yard number | 277 |
Launched | 1967 |
Identification | IMO number: 6718233 |
Fate | Broken up in 2004 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Tonnage | 8,657 GT GT uses unsupported parameter (help) |
Length | 140.65 m (461 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 20.53 m (67 ft 4 in) |
Draught | 5.59 m (18 ft 4 in) |
Installed power | 2 x B&W 1050-VT2BF-110 diesels |
Speed | 21 knots |
Capacity | list error: <br /> list (help) 750 Passengers 180 Cars |
The MSWinston Churchill was built in 1967 by Cantieri Navali del Tirreno e Riuniti S.P.A. Riva Trigoso, Genoa, Italy.
The Winston Churchill was built as a car ferry for the Scandinavian Seaways DFDS service from EsbjergtoHarwich, and proved a very successful vessel on the route. As demand for vehicle-carrying services grew, larger vessels were required for the route and the Winston Churchill was transferred to the River Tyne in 1978, for the twice-weekly service to Gothenburg, following the arrival of the new DFDS vessel MS Dana Anglia on the Harwich route. She was eventually replaced on the Esbjerg route out of the Tyne by a new vessel, the MS King of Scandinavia.
During the following years she was used as a hotelship for Red-cross, housing refugees in the harbour of Copenhagen.
Later she was chartered to NATO, to perform as hotel ship for the british 'Royl Marine Commandoes' Royal_Marines during the large NATO exersice 'Cold Gose' in the northatlantics during the winter 1986-87.
After the military exercises she went to be re-fitted for luxery cruices, at a yard in the German Kiler-kanal, in early 1987. The picture with the white hull and the slant stripes in three nuances of blue would be from the following years.
Then she would sail summer luxary crusis from Esbjerg, up along the Norwegian coast and into the fjords, following the old Hurtigruten trail to Northcap and back. Stops included, but was not limited to: Bergen, Andersness, Geiranger, Honningsvag.
Outside the summer season she would sail Esbjerg-Thorshavn and Esbjerg-Newcastle, on a weekly repeating schedule.
In 1995, and moved to a new route, also from the Tyne, to IJmuiden, Netherlands, which she maintained until the following year. She was badly damaged by a fire in her alternator room during a refit at Esbjerg in April 1996, and she was subsequently repaired and sold to Empress Cruise Lines, becoming the Mayan Empress. She was eventually sold for scrap in India in 2004.
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