Lion Ferry
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Lion Ferry was a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 ferry company which operated passenger and freight ferry services in Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

 and North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

.

History

1960
The Prins Bertil enters service between Halmstad and Aarhus.

1965
Lion Ferry acquires Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 ferry operator Europafergen.

1970
Portland
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

 - Yarmouth
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Yarmouth is a town and fishing port located on the Gulf of Maine in rural southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the shire town of Yarmouth County. The town is located in the heart of the world's largest lobster fishing grounds and has Canada's highest lobster catch.- History :The townsite may...

 route commences operated by the Prince of Fundy
MV Reine Mathilde
Reine Mathilde was a ferry operated by Brittany Ferries. She was built as the MS Prince of Fundy in 1970 by Schiffbau Gesellschaft Unterweser, AG, Bremerhaven, Germany for service between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.-History:...

.

1973
Joint venture with Irish Shipping to form Irish Continental Line.

1976
Portland
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

 - Yarmouth
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Yarmouth is a town and fishing port located on the Gulf of Maine in rural southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the shire town of Yarmouth County. The town is located in the heart of the world's largest lobster fishing grounds and has Canada's highest lobster catch.- History :The townsite may...

 route closes.

1985
Lion Ferry Ab acquired by Stena Line.

1995
Lion Ferry commences Karlskrona - Gdynia route.

1997
Lion Ferry services are re branded as Stena Line.

Routes

Lion Ferry operated various routes during its 39 years in operation.
  • Halmstad
    Halmstad
    Halmstad is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of Nissan in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County...

     - Aarhus
    Aarhus
    Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...

  • Halmstad
    Halmstad
    Halmstad is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of Nissan in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County...

     - Grenå
    Grenå
    Grenaa or Grenå is a town in central Denmark with a population of 14,308 . The town centre is about 2 km west of the east coast of the Djursland peninsula in Jutland's Region Midtjylland...

  • Varberg
    Varberg
    Varberg is a locality and the seat of Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 26,041 inhabitants in 2005.Varberg and all of Halland are well known for their 'typical west coast' sandy beaches. In Varberg the coast changes from wide sandy beaches to rocky terrain that continues north into...

     - Grenå
    Grenå
    Grenaa or Grenå is a town in central Denmark with a population of 14,308 . The town centre is about 2 km west of the east coast of the Djursland peninsula in Jutland's Region Midtjylland...

  • Karlskrona
    Karlskrona
    Karlskrona is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 35,212 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Sweden's only remaining naval base and the headquarters of the...

     - Gdynia
    Gdynia
    Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together...

  • Portland
    Portland, Maine
    Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

     - Yarmouth
    Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
    Yarmouth is a town and fishing port located on the Gulf of Maine in rural southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the shire town of Yarmouth County. The town is located in the heart of the world's largest lobster fishing grounds and has Canada's highest lobster catch.- History :The townsite may...

  • Bremerhaven
    Bremerhaven
    Bremerhaven is a city at the seaport of the free city-state of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It forms an enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the River Weser on its eastern bank, opposite the town of Nordenham...

     - Harwich
    Harwich
    Harwich is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east. It is in the Tendring district. Nearby places include Felixstowe to the northeast, Ipswich to the northwest, Colchester to the southwest and Clacton-on-Sea to the south...

     (Marketed as Prinzen Line)

Fleet

Lion Ferry operated many vessels during its time in operation.
Name Built In service Tonnage Note
MS Prins Bertil 1960 1960 - 1964 ???? GRT
MS Prins Bertil 1964 1964 - 1966 3,625 GRT Sold to Canadian National
Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad"....

 in 1966, Renamed Leif Eirikson.
MS Varberg 1940 1964 - 1966 1,217 GRT
MS Europafergen 1960 1965 - 1978 2,209 GRT
MS Gustav Vasa 1965 1965 - 1971 3,801 GRT Broken up in 2004.
MS Kronprins Carl Gustaf 1966 1966 - 1971 3,801 GRT
MS Prins Hamlet 1966 1966 - 1969 8,687 GRT Broken up in 2002
MS Europafärjan II 1964 1970 - 1976 2,498 GRT
MS Prins Oberon 1970 1970 - 1978 7,993 GRT Casino ship Ambassador II in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

MS Prince of Fundy
MV Reine Mathilde
Reine Mathilde was a ferry operated by Brittany Ferries. She was built as the MS Prince of Fundy in 1970 by Schiffbau Gesellschaft Unterweser, AG, Bremerhaven, Germany for service between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.-History:...

 
1970 1970 - 1978 5,464 GRT Broken up in 2005
MS Gustav Vasa
MV Logos Hope
MV Logos Hope is operated by the German charitable organisation GBA Ships e.V. As the fourth ship operated by the organisation, she follows in the line of MV Logos, the wrecked hulk of which now sits on a rock shelf on the Chilean coast, MV Logos II which was retired in the fall of 2008 and which...

 
1973 1973 - 1983 7,457 GRT Converted to hospital ship Logos Hope
MS Svealand 1973 1973 - 1982 5,159 GRT Currently operating in the Adriatic
Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges...

 as the Seatrade
MS Europafärjan III 1974 1974 - 1983 4,774 GRT Currently operating for Corsica Ferries
Corsica Ferries
Corsica Ferries and Sardinia Ferries are marketing names used by Corsica Ferries, a France-based ferry company that operates traffic to and from the islands of Corsica and Sardinia...

 as the Corsica Serena Seconda
MS Europafärjan
MS Bohus
MS Bohus is a ferry owned by Color Line operating between Sandefjord and Strömstad. -External links:**...


MS Europafärjan II
MS Bohus
MS Bohus is a ferry owned by Color Line operating between Sandefjord and Strömstad. -External links:**...


MS Lion Princess
MS Bohus
MS Bohus is a ferry owned by Color Line operating between Sandefjord and Strömstad. -External links:**...

 
1971 1983 - 1985
1985 - 1987
1987 - 1994
8,772 GRT Currently operating for Color Line as Bohus
MS Lion Queen 1967 1988 - 1989
1994 - 1997
14,193 GRT Operates as a cruise ship in Singapore
MS Europafärjan I
MS Lion Prince
1969 1985 - 1987
1987 - 1997
5,679 GRT
MS Lion King
MS Stena Nautica
MS Stena Nautica is a ro-pax ferry currently in operation between Varberg and Grenå for Stena Line. She was built in 1986 as MS Niels Klim and served on the DSB Arhus - Kalundborg along with her sister MS Peder Paars until 1991.-Concept and construction:...


MS Lion King II
MS Stena Nautica
MS Stena Nautica is a ro-pax ferry currently in operation between Varberg and Grenå for Stena Line. She was built in 1986 as MS Niels Klim and served on the DSB Arhus - Kalundborg along with her sister MS Peder Paars until 1991.-Concept and construction:...

 
1986 1995 - 1996
1996
11,763 GRT Still in service on the Varberg - Grenå route as the Stena Nautica
MS Lion King  1979 1996 - 1997 10,604 GRT
MS Lion Europe
MS Stena Europe
MS Stena Europe is a ferry owned by Stena Line and operated on their Fishguard—Rosslare service. She was built in 1981 by the Götaverken shipyard in Gothenburg, Sweden as MS Kronprinsessan Victoria for Sessan Line. During the same year Sessan Line passed under the ownership of Stena Line...

 
1981 1997 14,378 GRT In service with Stena Line
Stena Line
Stena Line is one of the world's largest ferry operators, with ferry services serving Scotland, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Norway, England, Wales, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. Stena Line is a major unit of Stena AB, itself a part of the Stena Sphere, a grouping of Stena AB,...

as Stena Europe
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