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shipping line

European Ferries

Dissolved 1987

Headquarters: Dover
Founded: 1935
Employees: —

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

75,320

Summed over 5 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What European Ferries is

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European Ferries Group plc was a company that operated in passenger and freight ferries, harbour operation and property management in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was taken over by P&O and renamed P&O European Ferries in 1987.

Quoted from European Ferries on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: shipping line
Legal form: —
Country of registration: —
Headquarters: Dover
Formed in: —
Founded: 1935
Dissolved: 1987
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 51.1275, 1.3122

Ships on record here: 7
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 5
Average vessel age: 48.3 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1969
Newest vessel on record: 1987
Largest vessel by tonnage: 26,433
Average tonnage: 15,064
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 7 vessels this registry attributes to European Ferries. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Schichau Unterweser3

Aalborg Shipyard1

Elsinore Shipyard and Machine Construction1

Schichau Seebeckwerft1

Werf Gusto1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	7
2018	—	7
2019	—	7
2020	—	7
2021	—	7
2022	—	7
2023	—	7
2024	—	7
2025	—	7
2026	—	7

Vessel records

Ships on record

7 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MS Pride of Calais	8517748	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1987	26,433	—	169.6 m	Schichau Seebeckwerft
MS Pride of Dover	8517736	Ferry	United Kingdom	1987	26,433	—	169.6 m	Schichau Unterweser
MV Gardenia	7711139	Unclassified	Cyprus	1978	8,097	—	118.0 m	Schichau Unterweser
MF Via Mare	7411258	Unclassified	Turkey	1976	8,023	—	118.0 m	Schichau Unterweser
MS Expedition	7211074	Unclassified	Liberia	1972	6,334	—	118.1 m	Elsinore Shipyard and Machine Construction
Falster Link	6910453	Ferry	—	1969	—	—	117.5 m	Werf Gusto
MS Viking Valiant	7358298	Unclassified	Sierra Leone	1975	—	—	143.7 m	Aalborg Shipyard

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How European Ferries compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 7 vessels attributed to it here, European Ferries is the 123rd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Founded in 1935, European Ferries is 91 years old. This directory holds 40 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q2518671, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from European Ferries on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.