Moby Prince
1986
(Optatus OL-SX-14)
- Type: Ferry
- Displacement: 6,682 tons
- Dimensions: 409 x 66 x 18 ft.
- Machinery: 4 x 4 9 cyl. MAN diesel = 21 knots
- Passengers: 1,200
- Cars: 360
- Builder: Camell Laird & Co, Birkenhead, United Kingdom, 1968
- Service: Built as Koningin Juliana for Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland (SMZ) sailing between the Hook of Holland and Harwich. Bought by NAVARMA Lines in 1985 and renamed Moby Prince. Served between Bastia (Corsica) and La Spezia and Livorno. Sailing in fog near Livorno on 11 April 1991 she collided with the tanker Agip Abbruzzio and 141 lives were lost in resulting fire. Towed into Livorno and sunk. Later raised and towed to Turkey for scrapping, 1998.
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