Built as Prins
Filip for the RTM Dover-Oostende service in 1991, although did
not enter service until 1992. Withdrawn 1997 when RTM ceased
operations. Bought by a Stena Group company in 1998, and chartered
to
P&O Stena Line
as Stena Royal for freight operations between Dover and
Zeebrugge. Charter extended and renamed POSL Aquitaine. In
1999 began to carry passengers again on the Dover-Calais route.
Transferred to P&O in August 2002 and renamed Pride of Aquitaine.
Received new P&O livery for 2003 season. Chartered by P&O from Stena
Line until 2005, she was retired early in May 2005.
