Stena Nautica

 

Stena Nautica - Marine Nautica - Corsica Marina II - Corsica Marina Seconda

 

 

This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the Stena Nautica of 1974, which served as initially as Marine Nautica, and later as the Corsica Marina II.

 

Stena Nautica was built in 1974 for Stena Line, the second of a series of four ships intended for charter work. Her sisters were Stena Normandica (1974), Stena Atlantica (1975), and Stena Nordica (1975). They were designed and built by Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven, who achieved a very high vehicle capacity for the overall size, the downside of which was the very boxy appearance.

 

Stena Nautica was delivered in October 1974, and was immediately chartered to Marine Atlantic (Canada) for a service between North Sydney and Port aux Basques as the Marine Nautica. She was sold to them in 1979. In 1986, Marine Nautica was sold to the Tourship group, owners of Corsica Ferries, and renamed Corsica Marina II for their Livorno-Bastia service. From 1999, the name was rendred as Corsica Marina Seconda. Sistership Stena Atlantica also joined Corsica/Sardinia Ferries the Sardinia Vera. Additional photographs of Corsica Marina Seconda are available on this link.

 

 

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Stena Nautica - Stena Line: 1974-79

Marine Nautica - Marine Atlantic: 1974-86 (chartered until 1979)

Corsica Marina II - Corsica Ferries: 1986-99

Corsica Marina Seconda - Corsica Ferries: 1999-

 

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Stena Nautica

 

Stena Nautica

(Stena Line: 1974-1979)

 

Stena Nautica was built in 1974 for Stena Line, the second of a series of four ships intended for charter work. Her sisters were Stena Normandica (1974), Stena Atlantica (1975), and Stena Nordica (1975). They were designed and built by Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven, who achieved a very high vehicle capacity for the overall size, the downside of which was the very boxy appearance.

 

Stena Nautica was delivered in October 1974, and was immediately chartered to Marine Atlantic (Canada) for a service between North Sydney and Port aux Basques as the Marine Nautica. She was sold to them in 1979. In 1986, Marine Nautica was sold to the Tourship group, owners of Corsica Ferries, and renamed Corsica Marina II for their Livorno-Bastia service. From 1999, the name was rendred as Corsica Marina Seconda. Sistership Stena Atlantica also joined Corsica/Sardinia Ferries as the Sardinia Vera.

 

 

Builders photograph of Stena Nautica. She was renamed Marine Nautica before entering service.

Photo: © Rickmers Werft.

Scan: Fakta om Fartyg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marine Nautica

(Marine Atlantic: 1979-86)

 

Stena Nautica was delivered in October 1974, and was immediately chartered to Marine Atlantic (Canada) for a service between North Sydney and Port aux Basques as the Marine Nautica. She was sold to them in 1979. In 1986, Marine Nautica was sold to the Tourship group, owners of Corsica Ferries, and renamed Corsica Marina II for their Livorno-Bastia service. From 1999, the name was rendred as Corsica Marina Seconda. Sistership Stena Atlantica also joined Corsica/Sardinia Ferries as the Sardinia Vera.

 

 

Majestic postcard KS-9012 of Frederick Carter (rear) and Marine Nautica, passing Sydney, Nova Scotia.

 

 

 

Enlarged image from the Majestic postcard above of Frederick Carter (rear) and Marine Nautica.

 

 

 

Photograph of Marine Nautica after sail to Tourship Group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corsica Marina II (Corsica Ferries: 1986-99)

Corsica Marina Seconda (Corsica Ferries: 1999- )

 

In 1986, Marine Nautica was sold to the Tourship group, owners of Corsica Ferries, and renamed Corsica Marina II for their Livorno-Bastia service. From 1999, the name was rendred as Corsica Marina Seconda. Sistership Stena Atlantica also joined Corsica/Sardinia Ferries the Sardinia Vera.

 

Additional photographs of Corsica Marina Seconda are available on this link.

 

 

This is Corsica Ferries official card serial 8.

 

 

 

This is Corsica Ferries official card serial 188bis, issued 2001. It is an aerial view of Bastia, with Corsica Marina Seconda leaving the ferry port.

 

 

 

Simplon Postcards sp2161 of Corsica Marina Seconda, released April 2001.

Photographed at Livorno in August 2000 by Ian Boyle.

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