MS Celtic Star
Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "redirect hatnote". Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates
| Script error: No such module "InfoboxImage". Celtic Star entering Dublin Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". |
MV Ippotis was a roll-on/roll-off ferry owned and operated by Eptanisos Maritime on the Ibiza–Barcelona route.
History
Ippotis was launched in 1991 as the Kosei Maru for Kanko Kisen KK.
- 1998 she was sold to Strintzis Lines and renamed Ioalaos.
- Later in 1998 she was renamed Loon-Plage and sold to East Coast Ferries.
- 1999 she was sold to DFDS Tor Line, renamed Celtic Star and put into service on the Rotterdam–Immingham route.
- April 1999, she was sold to P&O Irish Sea Lines for service on the Liverpool–Dublin route. Celtic Star was reflagged to Cyprus in May 1999.
- 2002 she was renamed Northern Star and transferred to the Larne–Liverpool route.
- 2003; sold to Dart Line for service on the Dartford–Vlissingen route.
- 2004; sold to CoTuNav Tunisian Ferries for service on the Tunis–Livorno route.
- 2006; sold to Celtic Link Ferries and renamed Celtic Star. She was used on the Dublin–Liverpool route.
- 2007; acquired by Seatruck Ferries, remaining on the Dublin–Liverpool route.[1][2]
- 2008; Celtic Star was chartered to P&O Irish Sea, remaining on the Liverpool–Dublin route.[1]
In 2014 Ippotis scrapped at Aliaga, Turkey
Incidents
Shortly after entering service with East Coast, Celtic Star ran aground.[3]
On 30 November 2006, eight trailers were washed overboard on a crossing from Dublin to Liverpool.[4][5]
On 1 February 2010, Celtic Star came into contact with a buoy in the Mersey estuary.[6]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Navbox". Template:P&O ships