MS ''Stena Scotia'' is a freight ferry owned by Stena and operated by the ferry company
Stena Line
Stena Line is a Swedish Shipping line, shipping line company and one of the world's largest ferry operators. It services Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland and Sweden. Stena Line is a ...
. She operates on the route that links Heysham with Belfast. She was built in 1996 at the Miho Shipyards in Japan as the ''Maersk Exporter'' for Norfolkline. In 2010, she was renamed as the ''Scotia Seaways'' when DFDS Seaways acquired Norfolkline and took over all of its operations. Later that year, she was chartered to Stena Line where she was repainted and again renamed, this time as the ''Stena Scotia'', and re-flagged to the Isle of Man. She has three sister ships, ''Stena Hibernia'', ''Flandria Seaways'' and ''Anglia Seaways''. She can only accommodate 12 passengers, but provides 1,692 lane-metres.
Heysham-Belfast
The ship crosses the
Irish Sea
The Irish Sea is a body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Ch ...
in about 8 hours.
External links
STENA SCOTIA* http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/maersk_exporter_1996.htm
1996 ships
Ships of the Stena Line
Ferries of the United Kingdom
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