Ferry "SEAFRANCE CÉZANNE". Calais, France. Postcard

MS SEAFRANCE CÉZANNE
Calais

Postcard published by Artaud Frères, Carquefou, 11162193-039 / R159.

MS SeaFrance Cézanne was a ferry has spent the majority of her career serving the Dover-Calais cross channel route with successive operators, Sealink, SNCF & SeaFrance.  She was launched at the Kockums Varv AB shipyard in Malmö, Sweden on 13 October 1979 and delivered to Rederi AB Nordö in January 1980. In February 1980, she was renamed Soca opening a service between Koper, Yugoslavia and Tartous, Syria. In late 1981 Soca was sold to Bulgarian So Mejdunaroden Automobile Transport (SOMAT) and renamed Trapezitza. In October 1988 she was purchased by Sealink British Ferries and renamed Fantasia. After a short refit in Bremerhaven in 1989 she was renamed Channel Seaway and began operating a freight service between Dover and Calais. In October 1989 Channel Seaway was to be given to SNCF and becoming Fiesta. On 1 January 1996 SNCF' new SeaFrance service began, with Fiesta, which was renamed to SeaFrance Cézanne. In 2011 the ship was sold to Belize interests and renamed Western Light. In October 2011 she departed from Dunkerque for Alang, India for scrapping. 

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