History

MS Pride of Calais was built for 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...

 in 1987, and launched on the 11th of April of that same year, as the sister ship to the MS Pride of Dover. She can carry 650 cars and 2290 passengers. She has always served on the Dover

Dover

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-Calais

Calais

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 route, but during French labour disputes she has sailed to Zeebrugge

Zeebrugge

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Pride of Calais will leave P&O service in Autumn 2011 to be replaced by , which will offer a larger capacity and almost double the amount of tonnage, at 49,000 tonnes, making her and her sister the largest ferries ever to cross the channel.

Pride of Calais is the sister ship of the retired . Both were built for Townsend Thoresen, which was rebranded under the name of its parent company (P&O) in 1987, following the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster.