Ulster Queen - Poseidonia
 
 
In 1967, three new car ferries were delivered to Coast Lines to update their Irish Sea services. The Ulster Prince and Ulster Queen replaced the pre-war motorships Ulster Prince and Ulster Monarch on the Liverpool-Belfast night service of the Belfast Steamship Co, and Lion took over the Ardrossan-Belfast day service of Burns & Laird. Coast Lines were purchased by P&O in 1971, and the Liverpool boats appeared in P&O Ferries colours with pale blue funnels.
 
 
Ship Names on this Page:-
Ulster Queen - Belfast SS Co: 1967-71
Ulster Queen - P&O Ferries: 1971-81
Poseidonia - HML: 1988-
 
Associated Pages:-
Belfast SS Motorships - Liverpool-Belfast night boats
Coast Lines Car Ferries
Coast Lines Header Page
Hellenic Mediterranean Lines
Simplon Postcards Home Page
 
References:-
The B&I Line: by Hazel P.Smyth - Gill & Macmillan 1984
Across the Irish Sea: by Robert Sinclair - Conway Maritime 1990
Irish Passenger Steamship Services - Volumes 1 & 2: by D.B.McNeil - David & Charles 1969
 
           
 
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Ulster Queen
(Belfast SS: 1967-71)
 
Liverpool-Belfast service
4600 tons, 378ft long
274 1st class passengers, 138 2nd class (cabin), 598 2nd class (seats).
 
Ulster Queen was built in 1967 by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast for the Liverpool-Belfast service of Belfast SS Co. From 1971, the service was marketed as P&O Ferries, although registered owners only changed to P&O in 1978. The Liverpool-Belfast service closed in 1981, and Ulster Prince was laid up at Oostende. Service followed as Med Sea, Al Kahera and Ala-Eddin. In 1988 she was bought by Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, and renamed Poseidonia.
 
 
This is an official Belfast Steamship Co information postcard, with a full text back.
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Ulster Queen
(P&O Ferries: 1971-81)
 
 
Simplon Postcards sp1079 issued December 1991.
Photo: © Margaret Boyle
 
 
 
Ramsey Postcards serial number 133 issued September 2001.
 
 
 
A sequence of photographs of the Ulster Queen passing through the locks at Liverpool.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, July 1979.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photograph of the Ulster Queen at Liverpool.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1980.
 
 
 
Two photographs of the Ulster Prince (left) and Ulster Queen (right), laid up at Liverpool following closure of the Liverpool-Belfast route.
The ship in the centre is NF Jaguar.
Photos: © Margaret Boyle, 1981
 
 
 
 
 
Photograph of the Ulster Prince (left) and NF Jaguar (right), laid up at Liverpool following closure of the Liverpool-Belfast route.
Photos: © Ian Boyle, 1981
 
 
 
 
 
 
Poseidonia (2)
(HML: 1988- )
 
Ulster Queen was built in 1967 by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast for the Liverpool-Belfast service of Belfast SS Co (part of Coast Lines). From 1971, the service was marketed as P&O Ferries, although registered owners only changed to P&O in 1978. The Liverpool-Belfast service closed in 1981, and Ulster Prince was laid up at Oostende. Service followed as Med Sea, Al Kahera and Ala-Eddin. In 1988 she was bought by Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, and renamed Poseidonia.
 
 
Photo: © Foto Fleet File Rotterdam
Scan supplied by Fakta om Fartyg.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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