AL MANSOUR (ex MOBY KISS / REINE ASTRID / STENA NAUTICA / HELLAS / STENA NORDICA) imo: 7360629
The former COMARIT Ferry AL MANSOUR was previously known as MOBY KISS / REINE ASTRID / STENA NAUTICA / HELLAS / STENA NORDICA. She was built in 1975 for Stena and scrapped at Aliaga in 2015.
Further update on the former Stena Antrim
From reading Spanish news reports it would appear that the former Stena Antrim (ex St Christopher, now Ibn Battouta) has been declared abandoned along with 3 other ships previously owned by the failed COMARIT/COMANAV ferry operation. A demand for EUR 386,191.58 in fees owed to the port has been made to be paid within 15 days (of the 21st of March) it seems, or the ships will presumably be sold at auction. As previously reported on this site the 4 ships have lain idle at Algericas for almost 3 years now, and with COMARIT/COMANAV bankrupt (though I understand some legal proceedings are still underway) its hard to see where the money is going to come from. Another of the ships, Al Mansour, also served on the Irish Sea briefly for B&I line between Rosslare and Pembroke, though she will be remembered by many as RMT’s Reine Astrid operating from Ostend to ... Read more