Free Enterprise II was a ferryboat completed in 1965 in Holland by I.C.H. Holland, Werf Gusto Yard, Schiedam for Townsend Brothers Ferries (later Townsend Thoresen)

European Ferries

European Ferries Group Plc was a company that operated in passenger and freight ferries, harbour operation and property management in the United Kingdom and the United States...

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Operational career

She operated on the Dover–Calais, Dover–Zeebrugge and Southampton–Cherbourg routes throughout the mid to late 1960s and the 1970s. In 1980 she was chartered by Sealink

Sealink

Sealink was a ferry company based in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1984, operating services to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Channel Islands, Isle of Wight and Ireland....

 and used on the Portsmouth–Cherbourg route. In 1982 she was acquired by the NAVARMA/Moby fleet

Moby Lines

Moby Lines is an Italian shipping company that operates ferries and cruiseferries between the Italian or French mainland and the islands of Elba, Sardinia and Corsica. The company was founded in 1959 under the name Navigazione Arcipelago Maddalenino .In 2006 Moby Lines purchased Lloyd Sardegna...

 and renamed the Moby Blu. They used her on routes to Corsica and then on the Piombino–Elba service.

Fate

In November 2003: She was sold to Indian breakers St Vincent/ Grenadines, renamed Moby and sent to Alang, India for breaking.

Starring role in a film

The ship features prominently in the comedy film San Ferry Ann

San Ferry Ann

San Ferry Ann is a 1966 British sound effect comedy. Wordlessly, with soundtrack and sound effects, it tells the story of a holiday crossing from Dover to Calais.-Synopsis:...

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The ship also appears on The Italian Job

The Italian Job

The Italian Job is a 1969 British caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson. Subsequent television showings and releases on video have established it as an institution in the United Kingdom....

with Charlie Croker (Michael Caine

Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine, CBE is an English actor. He won Academy Awards for best supporting actor in both Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules ....

) waving on the Minis and the Coach.