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New Sat 1 Feb 14 09:54 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Zero
Ever traveled on this ship? I know I have but I bet you never docked at Dover like this.....


www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25993771
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New Sat 1 Feb 14 10:53 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Boxsterboy
Not quite that fast!
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New Sat 1 Feb 14 12:33 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Bill Payer
That was a pretty good aim - I thought it was going to go well wide of the ship on our left.
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New Sat 1 Feb 14 13:00 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - borasport
You know it isn't going to travel far once it's out the water, but I still wouldn't want to stand in front of it with a camera
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New Sat 1 Feb 14 13:05 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Dog
Not un-like my wife's attempts at parking in the supermarket car parks.
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New Sat 1 Feb 14 13:32 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Bromptonaut
In spite of the viral video it was no accident, intention was to beach her so as to facilitate scrapping.

Cannot remember if I've used her, we use SeaFrance for ages then Norfolk Line/DFDS with just odd P&O when they were (unusually) cheaper.

A day trip is being had later this month on P&O (£23 return with 6 bottles of wine free) and we're outbound on one of the new ships, Pride of GB I think.
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New Sat 1 Feb 14 17:32 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Cliff Pope
A bit like this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid


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New Sat 1 Feb 14 18:48 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Focusless
>> A day trip is being had later this month on P&O (£23 return with 6
>> bottles of wine free)

Sounds good - that and a few other offers here:
www.poferries.com/tourist/content/pages/template/offers_ferry_offers_offers_-_ferry_offers.htm
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New Sun 2 Feb 14 10:24 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Roger.
The only thing I remember about that vessel were the highly odoriferous heads!
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New Sun 2 Feb 14 17:30 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Telb
Or, as seen from the bridge

po.st/hJFjb3

Sorry, don't know how to make that a link.
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New Sun 2 Feb 14 18:37 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Zero
>> Or, as seen from the bridge
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>> po.st/hJFjb3
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>> Sorry, don't know how to make that a link.

www.liveleak.com/view?i=55d_1384816686
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New Sun 2 Feb 14 18:40 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Old Navy
I must begrudgingly admit that it is handy to have a geek around the place. :-)
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New Sun 2 Feb 14 19:03 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Stuu
I travelled on PoC around '93/94 on the way to St Tropez for family holidays. Cant remember much about it apart from the awful smell on the car decks.
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New Sun 2 Feb 14 19:44 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Armel Coussine
>> Cant remember much about it apart from the awful smell on the car decks.

Haven't a clue if I ever travelled on it but it seems perfectly possible. The beaching clip is quite a spectacle though, especially the original head-on shot with the other two ships being jostled a bit. I was hoping for some vibration at least from the bridge shot, but ships are so huge and wobbly... Perhaps proper sound was what was lacking. I bet there were some good banging, graunching and screeching noises, but we didn't get them.

Ships are well known to smell terrible here and there and I've never in a long life been on one that didn't. It's always been like that. The ballast and bilges in a wooden three-master, with the crew quite often relieving themselves not over the side, which could be dangerous in rough weather, but in comfortable corners... Just ask ON.

:o}
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New Sun 2 Feb 14 20:46 
 X channel ferry "The Pride of Calais" - Telb
Thanks zeddo
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