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Brittany Ferries MV Bretagne - Further Ferry Information
MV Bretagne is a ferry operated by Brittany Ferries. She was built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France and has been sailing for Brittany Ferries since 1989. She was Brittany Ferries flagship until the arrival of MV Val de Loire in 1993. MV Bretagne has operated on a number of routes and currently serves the route between Portsmouth and St Malo.
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MV Bretagne Regular routes
The Bretagne has served a number of routes during it's Brittany Ferries history, it's most regular routes are as follows;
Plymouth-Santander 1989-1993, Winter 2006-2007, Winter 2007-2008, Winter 2008-2009
Plymouth-Roscoff 1989-1993 (twice a week), 2004-2005 (full time)
Roscoff-Cork 1989-1993, occasionaly from 2007 onwards
Portsmouth-Cherbourg March-September 2004
Portsmouth-St Malo 1993-2004, late 2005-present
Bretagne has seen use on Portsmouth-Caen (Ouistreham) as refit cover and also the winter only route of Plymouth-St Malo. She also sailed between Portsmouth and Santander during the winter in the mid-nineties.
Though generally found on the Portsmouth-St Malo route Bretagne will also operate on other routes, normally in Winter, such as Portsmouth-Cherbourg and Plymouth-Roscoff.
Bretagne was used on the Poole-Cherbourg route between 26 February 2007 and 10 March 2007. She then became the only current passenger vessel in the Brittany Ferries fleet to visit every port served by the company and to have operated on all the current routes. It was originally planned that she would return to Poole in January 2008 to cover for the absence of the Cotentin. In addition to sailing to Cherbourg alongside the Bretagne she would also have sailed between Poole and Santander at the weekend departing Poole on Friday night and arriving back on Monday morning. This plan was dropped shortly after the publication of the 2008 timetable and Bretagne instead covered for the refit on the Mont St Michel on the Portsmouth-Caen route.
In early 2009 Bretagne underwent a £5million refit. The work included creation of 50 'Club 4' cabins along with refurbishment of the rest of the ships cabins, refurbishment of the self service restaurant, refit of the 'La Gerbe de Locronan Salon de Thé' to create a wi-fi cafe area and rebuilding of the reclining seat lounges to create new lounge areas for business, reading and watching television.
Brittany Ferries MV Bretagne Ferry Statistics
- Gross Tonnage: 24,534
- Length: 152.8 m
- Beam: 26 m
- Crew: 130
- Vehicle Capacity: 580 cars
- Passengers: 2,056
- Service Speed: 21 knots
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