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Operator on record: P&O European Ferries (1991–1998)
Photo: Fabian318 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#18,930
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#10,611
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Pride of Canterbury was a ferry operated by P&O Ferries across the English Channel between Dover, England and Calais, France. She made her maiden voyage on 4 January 1992 as the European pathway. She was converted in 2003 to a pure passenger vessel. She retired from service on the 10 September 2023 before a brief lay up and a departure for Alaiga to be broken up for recycling
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 30,635 gross tons, Pride of Canterbury is the 18,930th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 5.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 10,611th by tonnage — larger than 79% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Pride of Canterbury is the 238th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 106 are larger by tonnage.
Pride of Canterbury was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 162nd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 97 vessels to Schichau Seebeckwerft, with a median tonnage of 16,236 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 179.7 m overall, Pride of Canterbury is 64.7 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 28.3 m and a draft of 6.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9007295 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1990 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.
Its IMO number, 9007295, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 7×4 + 2×3 + 9×2 = 115 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Champion Pomer | 2011 | 30,638 |
| Champion Istra | 2012 | 30,638 |
| IMO 9489194 | — | 30,638 |
| Pride of Canterbury (this ship) | 1991 | 30,635 |
| LTS 3000 | 2010 | 30,628 |
| Zen-Noh Grain Pegasus | 2010 | 30,619 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.

MS GNV Atlas
1990 · 33,336 GT · Italy
MS European Seaway
1991 · 22,986 GT · United Kingdom

M/S Ambal
1990 · 20,729 GT · Russia
Zhong Wai Yun Tai Cang
1991 · 16,236 GT · Panama
Zhong Gu Tai Shan
1990 · 16,236 GT · People's Republic of China
Conti Sydney
1990 · 16,236 GT · Liberia

Chiquita Bremen
1992 · 10,842 GT · The Bahamas

MV Seabourn Legend
1992 · 9,961 GT · The Bahamas
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Pride of Canterbury on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Fabian318, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| Glory C |
| 1976 |
| 30,617 |