Lot 59W
A Builder's model of the Stena SeaLink Line Passenger ferry Fantasia 1980 75x17.5x26ins.(191x44x66cm)
15 April 2014, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,500 inc. premium
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A Builder's model of the Stena SeaLink Line Passenger ferry Fantasia 1980
Hull of solid timber, painted white to the waterline and maroon below, with a blue boot top. Bulb bow, twin bow thrusters, folded fin stabilisers and twin, four blade propellers. White superstructure with twin blue livery funnels, detailed anchors, windlass, liferafts, ship's boats on davits. Bearing a Builder's plaque for Kockums Varv AB Malmo, Sweden. In a glazed display case. 75x17.5x26ins.(191x44x66cm)
Footnotes
Built in 1979, yard no. 569 and launched in 1980 for Rederei AB Nordo Malmo for Mediterranean service and named Scandinavia. Sold to Bulgaria in 1982 and renamed Tzarevetz for the Medlink Line, she was back on the North Sea in 1987 under charter to DFDS on the Harwich/Esbjerg service. Sold to Sealink Ferries in 1988 she was renamed Fiesta, but was refitted in 1989 at Bremerhaven as a Passenger Ferry and appeared in 1990 on the Dover/Calais route renamed Fantasia (the livery shown on the model).
Renamed Stena Fantasia after the Stena/Sealink merger, she remained thus named until the P&O merger in 1998 when she was renamed Canterbury a name she retained until leaving the channel service in 2003. Sold to Greece in 2004, she was renamed again Alkmini A, and then Wawel. Rebuilt in Poland in 2005, she remains in service today in the Baltic.