MS SeaFrance Cézanne
MS ''SeaFrance Cézanne'' was a ferry launched in 1979 as the ''Ariadne''. Starting life in the Mediterranean, she has spent the majority of her career serving the Dover-Calais cross channel ferry route with successive operators, Sealink, SNCF & SeaFrance, was taken out of service in February 2009 and scrapped in 2011-12 Early years The ''SeaFrance Cézanne'' started life as the ''Ariadne'', ordered by and for Rederi AB Nordö, Malmö for services in the Eastern Mediterranean. She was launched at the Kockums Varv AB shipyard in Malmö, Sweden on 13 October 1979 and delivered to Rederi AB Nordö in January 1980. In February 1980, she was renamed ''Soca'' opening a service between Koper, Yugoslavia and Tartous, Syria with UMEF. On 7 June 1980, the ''Soca''s sister ship, capsized on her maiden voyage roughly 2 km away from Larnaca, Cyprus, this precipitated the end of Rederi's Yugoslavia to Syria service. In late 1981 the two remaining vessels ''Soca'' and her sister ''Scandina ...
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