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Built as a ro-ro passenger ferry under yard No 325 by Chanters du Nord et de la Mediterranee, Dunkerque, France for Soc. Nationale des Chemis de Fer Francais.
17 July 1985 ordered.
15 April 1987 launched under the name NORD PAS DE CALAIS.
Tonnage 7.264 gross, 2.492 net, 4.795 dwt, dim. 158.09 x 22.4 x 7.53m., draught 5.92m., length bpp. 150m.
Powered by two 16-cyl. Sulzer 16ZAV40 diesel engines, 24.484 hp., two controllable pitch propellers, speed 22.5 knots.
Accommodation for 80 passengers could carry 90 truck and trailers. (WP gives she has 600m railtrack, but nowhere can I find of this is correct or that she ever carried train wagons.)
14 December 1987 delivered to owners.

January 1988 used in the service between Calais and Dover.
09 May 1988 in the day-service from Dunkerque to Dover.
1989 Transferred to Societe Nouvelle d’Armement Transmanche (SNAT), Calais, France.
22 December 1995 in the day-operation from Dunkerque to Dover.
07 January 1996 renamed in SEAFRANCE NORD PAS-DE-CALAIS used in the service of Seafrance from Calais to Dover, mostly in use for hazardous cargo transport, what was not allowed to be carried on the Channel Tunnel trains.
03 July 1996 laid up in Dunkerque.
29 November 1996 again in the service from Calais to Dover only to transport cargo.
2006 Still in this service.

http://www.equassis.org gives for 2006: IMO No 8512152, owned by Seafrance.

Vietnam 1990 3000d sg 1495, scott 2163.

Source: Watercraft Philately Vol. 38 page 58. http://www.veristar.com http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/nord_pas_de_calais_1987.htm

May 2016 bareboat chartered by FRS Iberia SL, Spain, under Cyprus flag and registry and renamed AL ANDALUS EXPRESS.
2016 Used in the service between Motril and Tanger.