By the end of the summer, they had lost £2 Million and the service was closed, only to be reopened by Swansea-Cork ferries a few years later. concentrate on freight only business. In 1990 the government decided to privatise the company, and bids came from Irish Continental Group, P&O, and Maersk. The same Dublin yard built two further ships for the company, the s.s. Lady Wodehouse (1865) which remained with the company until being broken up in 1897, and was followed by the Countess of Dublin in 1869. Orpheus was relocated to the Americas where it sailed in Alaska, Mexico, and Panama for about one year. M.V.LEINSTER 1969. do most of the loading and Get the item you ordered or get your money back. And there was a growing acceptance trade. As of April 2002 she was still sailing in Japan as the Ginga between Niigata and the Sado Islands. was inevitable. THE POSTAL HISTORY OF THE NAVAL & RAF POSTAL SERVICES by EDWARD B PROUD, 1941 GIBRALTAR to KENT ENGLAND WW2 AIRMAIL RARE FIELD POST with 6d KGVI Stamp, Australia Commercial Cover to Austria 18c Postage Due To Pay WS18885, Fiji 1963 1st Anniversary South Pacific Games Suva FDC, South America 4 Covers Airmail Brazil Venezuela Nicaragua, Germany 1946/7 Range of British and Civil Censored Covers to Include Censor Hand, PHILLIPS AUCTION CATALOGUE 1991 PICTORIAL ENVELOPES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Netherlands Indies 1899 cover to Nice (signed on back) WS17090, SA 1932 Imperial Airways Capetown to London FFC cover (Plane Delayed) WS19001, 11th OCT 1928 ZEPPELIN COVER TO USA PLUS RETURN FLIGHT 29th OCT 1928 REF 3415, Maritime Mail Cover Posted On Board MS Southern Prince 1936 Posted At Sea U674, 1848 WRAPPER TO BORDEAUX, FRANCE FROM BOMBAY SENT VIA STEAMER ARR PMK! In 1960 they acquired the Wicklow (600 tons) for carrying general cargo. Pandoro. Two new sisters were built in 1948. the distinction between first and second-class. On March 2nd, 1981 the Sealink staff used small boats to block the Connacht from docking at Holyhead, and they did the same to the Connacht on the 9th. It was sold in 1969 to Epirotiki Lines. among the dock's labour force that the introduction of Ro Ro which was unitised. also made its passage across In 1999 Irish Ferries introduced the high speed Jonathan Swift to the Dublin -Holyhead route. The company then started operating from Rosslare to Pembroke with a series of charted vessels, including the Viking III, and Stena Nordica. addition a 12ft height The old Munster (briefly renamed the Munster I) was sold to Epirotiki even before her namesake car ferry was delivered and went on to enjoy more than 30 years further service as a cruise ship – the famed Orpheus – in which capacity she was only barely outlived by the car ferries which replaced her, all of which were scrapped in the early years after the turn of the century. One of the Company’s first directors was Francis Carleton (who was also a member of the board of the City of Dublin SP Co. [1823-1924], with whom the B&I worked closely). The company’s first ships were the wooden paddle steamers, The Devonshire, Shannon, and the City of Limerick (all 500 tons), and by December 29th, they were advertising weekly services between Dublin and London, calling at Plymouth. the port had a throughput of There are 1 items available. MV Leinster was launched in 1968 and operated initially for the British and Irish Steam Packet Company (B+I Line). International shipment of items may be subject to customs processing and additional charges. Co., the Belfast Steamship Co., Burns and Laird, the City of Dublin S.P. None of the cabins were equipped with en-suite facilities (something corrected in the subsequent pair, giving further credence to suspicions that, in haste, the first vessel was accepted “as is”, before any significant modifications could be made to the original design). Coast Lines, being a British company had its ships committed to the European War, and shortly after the outbreak of World War II, the B&I ships were abruptly removed from their normal routes, despite being Irish registered. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. unloaded more quickly than its conventional predecessor, it In 1980 the B&I line opened a new daytime passenger service to Liverpool using a jetfoiL This new vessel, named Cu na Mara, was the first high speed to operate in these waters and was capable of making the journey to Liverpool in three hours. In 1979, B+I started introducing a new generation of car ferries on its Irish Sea routes, with a new MV Leinster, capable of taking 1,500 passengers and 350 cars, coming into service on the Dublin - Liverpool route. MV Orpheus was a cruise ship launched on 25 March 1947 and completed on 17 January 1948 by the shipyard Harland and Wolff in Belfast as Munster for B&I Line.
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