Sea France Molière - Further Ferry Information and Vessel Description MS SeaFrance Molière is a fast ropax ferry owned by SeaFrance and operated on their Dover-Calais route. She was built in 2002 by the HDW shipyard in Kiel, Germany for Superfast Ferries as MS Superfast X. Between 2007 and 2008 she was owned by Veolia Transport, and sailed under the name MS Jean Nicoli for SNCM and ANEK Lines. SeaFrance Molière was the last in a series of four identical ice classed fast ferries built by HDW Kiel, Germany for Superfast Ferries' Baltic services.
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MS SeaFrance Molière entered service for Superfast Ferries as Superfast 10 in February 2002 on the Hanko-Rostock route. She remained on that route until April 2002, when she was laid up at HDW Kiel. In May 2002 she re-entered service, now on the Rosyth-Zeebrugge route. In February 2004 the Superfast X was rebuilt at Fosen Mekaniske Verksted, Fosen, Norway with additional passenger berths. In August 2006 Superfast Ferries sold the Superfast X to Veolia Transport for €112 million. The ship was renamed Jean Nicoli.
On March 2007 the Jean Nicoli made crossings from Le Havre to Marseille, carrying cars onboard. During April of the same year she was chartered to COTUNAV for traffic from Italy and France to Tunisia. |
At the end of April she was laid up, initially at La Seyne, later at Marseille. From 8 September until 2 October 2007 she was chartered to ANEK Lines for service on their Patras—Korfu—Igoumenitsa—Venice route. On 27 December 2007 the ship was sold to SeaFrance, with a delivery date set for April 2008.
In the beginning of April 2008 the Jean Nicoli was delivered to SeaFrance and renamed SeaFrance Molière. On 3 April 2008 she left Marseille for Arno Dunkerque for rebuilding into a short distance ferry. She entered service with SeaFrance in freight only operation on 19 August 2008 and begun passenger service between Dover and Calais on 1 September 2008.
Sea France Molière Ferry Statistics
- Length - 203.3 m
- Breadth - 25 m
- Draught - 6.58 m
- Speed - 27.1 knots
- Engines - 4 x Wärtsilä NSD ZA V40S
- Built - 2002
- Yard - Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Weft AG, Kiel, Germany
- Cars - 1200
- Passengers - 480
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