P&O European Ferries (Portsmouth) will take delivery of their latest charge soon when the Irish-owned ferry Isle of Inisfree completes her change of company livery at Falmouth and goes on charter to the Portsmouth-based ferry operators.
Renamed Pride of Cherbourg she will replace the present Pride of Cherbourg and Pride of Hampshire after the summer season on the Portsmouth-Cherbourg route.
Her owners, Irish Continental Group, have chartered the ship for a five year period to P&O and extended the charter of the Pride of Bilbao for a similar term. This week teams of painters have changed the Isle of Inisfree's hull colour from white to P&O blue with additional internet website addresses being added to the superstructure.
Isle of Inisfree was built in 1995 by Van De Giessen, Holland, for Irish Continental Ferries to operate on the Dublin-Holyhead route. The arrival of the much larger 52,000 ton super ferry Ulysses on this route last year saw the Isle of Inisfree surplus to requirements and she laid up in France. She can carry 600 cars and 1,650 passengers.
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