MS Stena Nordica (2000)

• European Ambassador

Lloyd 's Register of Shipping

IMO no. 9215505

The Stena Nordica is a Ro-Pax vessel of the Swedish Stena Line, which together with the Stena Adventurer on the route Holyhead - Dublin used. The ship is 169.8 meters long and 24 meters wide. It was built in 2000. Sister ships are the European Causeway and European Highlander, which are used by P & O between Cairnryan and Larne.

History

The Stena Nordica was built in 2000 for P & O Irish Sea as European Ambassador. It was used between Liverpool and Dublin. Later it was used between Mostyn and Dublin or Cherbourg and Dublin. In 2004 joined the ship for Stena Line, which it began with P & O between Fleetwood and Larne and Dublin and Mostyn.

After the closure of plugging the ship in 2004 was ultimately sold to Stena Line, which began in the ship between Karlskrona and Gdynia. In 2008, it was used during a shipyard stay the Stena Stena Europe Seatrader or temporarily between Fishguard and Rosslare or Dublin and Holyhead. In February 2008, the ship returned to the Baltic Sea. In October 2008, the Stena Nordica finally returned to the Irish Sea back to replace the Stena Seatrader, since a ship with greater capacity was needed. Later it was reinstated between Karlskrona and Gdyna until it was replaced by the Stena Vision and Stena Spirit 2011. Since then it is inserted between Holyhead and Dublin.