Did a cracking raw steak,or steak blue,as the French call it,oozing with blood.
I think one of the "duke"ferries is running here in NZ from Wellington to Picton,( north island to south island) and back again obviousley.Will try and find out which it is one day.
Ah, the Duc de Normandie !
cant remember if it was on the way to or from France about 1994, bloody hell did that rock about, one second your light as a feather the next its like an elephant sat on your shoulders … really bad.
Had a different ferry second time, much bigger, hardly moved at all, cant think what it was called tho.
Prinses Beatrix was built in 1978 by Verolme Scheepswerf Heusden B.V, Heusden, Holland. She entered service for SMZ between Harwich-Hook of Holland in June of that year. She was sold to Brittany Ferries in October 1985, but chartered back to SMZ until the following year, when she was named Duc de Normandie. She entered service between Caen and Portsmouth in June 1986. Unlike most units in the fleet, she rarely ventured onto other Brittany Ferries routes, until moving to Plymouth-Roscoff in July 2002, on delivery of the Mont St Michel. Duc de Normandie was withdrawn from regular Brittany Ferries services in September 2004, and was offered for sale. In November she moved to Gdansk, Poland for lay-up. In 2005 it was announced that she had been bought by TransEuropa Ferries, and renamed Wisteria (2).
Details taken from simplonpc.co.uk
Wisteria (Duc du Normandie) done a short stint on Ramsgate - Ostende when TEF first got her, owned by Denval Marine (Transeuropa’s holding company) she’s now down in the med on charter to Ferrymaroc doing the morrocco run
The captain used to asure us,that the stabilisers were in use,but im sure,they were not fitted on the Duke,trick was to get the meal,head down on the bunk and ride it out,some would partake in the bevies in the bar,until the guy under the bunk got a shower of what they had drunk.
Sailed on her several times as the Prinses Beatrix - at the time she was the most modern one on the Harwich - Hook run. Considering the St George & the Koningin Juliana were 12 years old at the time, and the St Edmund 6 years, and showed every mile, the PB didn’t have a lot to beat!