Built 1967 by Cantieri Navali del Torrino e Riuniti S.P.A. Riva Trigoso, Genoa, Italy.
Dimensions. 140,65 x 20,53 x 5,59 m.
Grt/ Nrt/ Dwt. 8,657/ 4,778/ 2,235.
Engine. 2x 2D 2SA B&W 1050-VT2BF-110 diesel.
Effect 14,000 hk.
Speed 21,0 knots
Passengers 750 (only app. 100 when sailing as luxary liner)
Cars 180
The M/S Winston Churchill was built in 1967 as a car ferry for the 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 Dana Anglia on the Harwich route. She was eventually replaced on the Esbjerg route out of the Tyne by a new vessel, the King of Scandinaviain1995, 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.
File:Winston churchill 1967 8.jpg Winston Churchill in Geiranger fjord Norway During spring Cruise 1987
Owned and operated by Scandinavian Seaways part of DFDS
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