Talk:MS Pride of Dover

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I have tried to update this ferry page and intend to do this to all the other ferry's page that run on the P&O Dover - Calais Route. I intend to update these pages reuarly to make them as up-to-date as possible. If anyone could help me with tiorsom job of adding in links to the pages:

and the late

Pride of Dover

(sorry about the spelling, I'm really rushing this!)

If anyone could help then thsi would be really helpful. Cheers 2013harry 18:35, 13 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2013harry (talk • contribs)

Scrap or not?

In updating, I am aware that there is a dearth of citeable sources. P&O are reported to have confirmed sale for scrap in a twitter feed, but not picked up by mainstream press. That seems likely, but declared destination of Tuzla rather than Aliaga implies that she will at least be re-assessed for further service before scrapping - possible Turkey/Ukraine service has been rumoured. But only the blogs are picking up on this at the moment. (For the record, she appeared still to be under British flag as Pride when leaving Tilbury.) Davidships (talk) 00:50, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted statement that she will be scrapped at Tuzla. There is no source for this and ship scrapping is not carried out there normally - the centre is at Aliaga. The problem is that there is no reliable source in WP terms for any of the disposal information - sale to German shipping interests came direct from P&O but via Twitter; sale for scrap is market assumption and there have been rumours the German interests intended to repair her; the cite "Dover Ferry Photos" currently shown is a blog. There is good reason for doubt about whether the buyers will scrap her or not. Turkish online shipping publication "SeaNews Turkey" summed it up succinctly here. This is a bit messy now but will be clearer soon, and reliable sources will emerge in due course.Davidships (talk) 20:03, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Finavon (talk) 21:39, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Seen purported Scandlines press announcement this morning (not yet on-line) that they have bought both Dover and Pride of Calais/Ostend Spirit, which will be joined in Turkey to be big new double-ended Knudshovet for Rostock-Gedser route.Davidships (talk) 08:41, 20 December 2012 (UTC). Scandlines story believed to be a hoax.Davidships (talk) 19:28, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Destination of Pride was changed to Aliaga, and she arrived 27/12. Demolition would seem a certainty.Davidships (talk) 12:05, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]