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FALAISE ferry

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:09 pm

As part of their Postal History IV – Mail Ships Jersey issued sheetlets of 10 stamps with borders showing nautical themes. On the top margin of the 39p sheetlet there are two ships and it is the same on the bottom. The bottom margin shows two Sealink ferries. The one on the right is either the SARNIA or CAESAREA. Both have already appeared on stamps – SARNIA on Guernsey stamps and CAESAREA on a Jersey stamp.
The vessel on the left is the FALAISE which, I believe, has not yet appeared on a stamp.
Built as a passenger-ferry under yard No 1400 by W Denny & Bross Ltd., Dumbarton, Scotland for the Southern Railway Co., London.
25 October 1946 launched under the name FALAISE.
Tonnage 3,710 grt, 2,046 net, 401 dwt. Dim. 94.6 x 15.1m. length bpp. 91.4m.
Powered by 2 x 2 Parsons steam turbines, manufactured by the builder, 8,500 shp. geared to two shafts, speed 20.5 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 1,416 persons, 66 crew.
08 June 1947 completed.

Maiden voyage 14/07/1947; reopened Southampton/St Malo after WW2 (Summer only) and continued on St Malo service until 1963 but prior to starting each summer undertook a series of short cruises to Channel Is, Normandy & Brittany.
1948 Owned by British Transport Commission, Southern Region.
From 1952 relieved on winter service to Le Havre
1963 Transferred to British Railway Board, London.
Converted to stern loading car ferry by Vickers Armstrong, Hebburn on Tyne from January to May 1964
Started new car ferry link Newhaven/Dieppe 1/6/64 and again on 30/05/73 between Weymouth/Jersey.
1974 Suffered engine failure and was replaced by the chartered SVEA DROTT which was later purchased and renamed EARL GODWIN.
Laid up 08/1974 at Holyhead and left 24/12/1974 under tow for Bilbao to be broken up. I saw her at the breaker’s yard in Bilbao on 1st January 1975 while waiting to board the ferry to the UK where we arrived early in the morning of the 3rd and followed the QE2 up to Southampton. She was broken up by Revalorizacion de Materiales SA, Bilbao where she arrived on 31 December 1974.
Jersey 2010 margin of sheetlet
Sources: Merchant Fleets 24 – British Railway Steamers – Western & Southern Companies.

http://www.ournewhaven.org.uk/page_id__ ... 7p70p.aspx
http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/ (Sealink – Newhaven ferries)
http://www.sealink-holyhead.com/railway ... /home.html
http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/shipview.asp
Peter Crichton,
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