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- Svea
Drott
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- Svea
Drott - Earl Godwin - Moby Baby
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- This page
is devoted to postcards and photographs of the Scandinavian Ferry Lines vessel Svea Drott of 1966, which later
served as the Sealink ferry Earl Godwin.
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- Svea
Drott
was built for Stockholms
Rederi AB Svea,
Stockholm in 1966 by Ab Öresundvarvet, Landskrona. She entered
traffic on the Trave-Line service between Helsingborg-Travemünde,
later changing to Helsingborg-Copenhagen-Travemünde. In
1974 Svea
Drott
was bareboat chartered to Rederi Ab Gotland, Visby, for service between Visby-Oskarshamn.
Svea
Drott
was then sub-chartered to British Rail/Sealink for their Weymouth-Channel
Islands services, followed by purchase in 1975 and renaming to
Earl
Godwin.
Whilst working predominantly out of Weymouth, she also operated
for periods on Portsmouth-Channel Islands, Weymouth-Cherbourg
and even Heysham-Belfast. In 1990, Earl Godwin was sold to Moby Lines for use as Moby Baby between Piombino-Portoferraio
(Elba).
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- Svea
Drott
- Earl
Godwin
- Moby
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- Svea Drott
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1966-1974)
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- Svea Drott was built for Rederi
Ab Svea, Stockholm in 1966 by Ab Öresundvarvet, Landskrona.
She entered traffic on the Trave-Line service between Helsingborg-Travemünde,
later changing to Helsingborg-Copenhagen-Travemünde. In
1974 she was bareboat chartered to Rederi Ab Gotland, Visby,
for service between Visby-Oskarshamn. She was then sub-chartered
to British
Rail/Sealink
for their Weymouth-Channel Islands services, followed by purchase
in 1975 and renaming to Earl Godwin. Whilst working predominantly out of
Weymouth, she also operated for periods on Portsmouth-Channel
Islands, Weymouth-Cherbourg and even Heysham-Belfast. In 1990,
Earl
Godwin
was sold to Moby Lines for use as Moby Baby between Piombino-Portoferraio
(Elba).
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- Official
Trave-Line (Scandinavian Ferry Lines) postcard of Svea Drott.
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- Official
Trave-Line (Scandinavian Ferry Lines) postcard of Svea Drott.
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- Schöning
postcard Tra677 of Svea Drott.
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- H.Håkansson
postcard 965/23 of Svea Drott at Helsingborg.
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- A.Duncan
photographic postcard of Svea Drott.
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- Ramsey
postcard 64 of Svea Drott, sub-chartered from Rederi AB
Gotland to British Rail for service between Weymouth and the
Channel Islands.
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- Earl Godwin
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1975-1990)
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- In 1974,
Svea
Drott
was bareboat chartered to Rederi Ab Gotland, Visby, for service between Visby-Oskarshamn.
She was then sub-chartered to British Rail/Sealink for their Weymouth-Channel
Islands services, followed by purchase in 1975 and renaming to
Earl
Godwin.
Whilst working predominantly out of Weymouth, she also operated
for periods on Portsmouth-Channel Islands, Weymouth-Cherbourg
and even Heysham-Belfast. In 1990, Earl Godwin was sold to Moby Lines for use as Moby Baby between Piombino-Portoferraio
(Elba).
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- Sealink
postcard of Earl William, in original Sealink (British
Rail) colours.
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by J.Arthur Dixon.
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- Sealink
postcard of Earl William, in original Sealink (British
Rail) colours.
- Published
by J.Arthur Dixon.
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- Moby Baby
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Lines: 1990- )
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- Moby Baby was built in 1966 as
Swedish ferry Svea
Drott.
She then served as the Sealink ferry Earl Godwin, until purchase by NAVARMA/Moby Lines in 1990. She remains
in service on the Elba-Piombino route.
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- This
is the only official NAVARMA or Moby
Lines
card of any ship that I have come across so far (maybe the introduction
of the superferries Moby Wonder and Moby Freedom
in 2001 will inspire them to issue some more). The card was published
by Mario Mercantelli on Elba, serial number 19245.
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- Simplon Photographs issue isp1003 Moby Baby shown
off Piombino in 1997 by Ian Boyle.
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- In
2000, Moby Dream had received the dreaded hull 'artwork'.
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photo was taken at Piombino in August 2000 by Ian Boyle.
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