MS Pride of Burgundy

Pride of Burgundy at Dover, April 2004
History
Name	1993–1999: Pride of Burgundy 1999–2002: P&OSL Burgundy 2002–2003:PO Burgundy 2003–2023: Pride of Burgundy
Owner	1993–1998: P&O European Ferries 1998–2002: P&O Stena Line 2002–2023: P&O Ferries
Operator	1993–1998: P&O European Ferries 1998–2002: P&O Stena Line 2002–2020: P&O Ferries
Port of registry	Limassol,  Cyprus (until 2023)
Route	Dover-Calais
Builder	Schichau Seebeckwerft, Germany
Launched	16 May 1992
Completed	23 March 1993
Maiden voyage	5 April 1993
In service	1993
Out of service	2023
Identification	Call sign: MQSQ9 IMO number: 9015254 MMSI number: 232001470 Official Number: 722960
Fate	Sold for scrap
General characteristics
Tonnage	28,138 gt
Length	179.7 m (589.6 ft)
Beam	28.3 m (92.8 ft)
Draft	6.27 m (20.6 ft)
Installed power	4 x Sulzer ZA40S Diesels
Propulsion	Two controllable pitch propellers
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Capacity	1,420 600 passenger vehicles or 120 15m freight vehicles

MS Pride of Burgundy was a cross-channel ferry owned by P&O Ferries. It operated on the Dover to Calais route from 1993 to 2022.

MS Pride of Burgundy was planned as the fourth 'European Class' freight-only vessel, to be named European Causeway for P&O European Ferries' Dover to Zeebrugge route. Due to demand on the Dover - Calais route, the ship was converted to a multi-purpose ferry (passengers and freight) prior to completion with the addition of extra superstructure. It is a commonly stated in ferry publications and website that the original choice of name for the ship was Pride of Lille.^[1] By capacity, she is one of the smallest Dover – Calais ferries, only taking 1,200 passengers and 600 cars.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010 she was chartered to Ramsgate in east Kent to host the opening of the Thanet Wind farm. Pride of Burgundy took new crew, wind farm employees, their families and VIPs right out to sea to see the wind turbines up close. She was back in service the next day^[2]

On 27 October 2012 Pride of Burgundy collided with the MyFerryLink ship Berlioz due to high winds, sustaining minor damage to the right bridge wing, which was fixed in a couple of hours.^[3] Berlioz received damage to her lifeboats putting her out of service.^{[citation needed]}

Pride of Burgundy departed Dover on 3 March 2017 for Gdansk (Poland) where she underwent a major refit.^[4] She arrived at the Remontowa shipyard on 5 March and returned to Dover on 25 March, resuming her usual Dover to Calais schedule the following day.^{[citation needed]}

In early 2019, Pride of Burgundy, like all P&O vessels on the Dover-to-Calais route, was re-flagged to Cyprus, a measure explained by the company as motivated by tax advantages in view of Brexit. She was registered in Limassol.^{[citation needed]}

From 3 May 2020, Pride of Burgundy was docked at the Port of Leith, Scotland, as a result of the reduction in traffic across the straights of Dover due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She returned to Dover in late October that year, re-entering service on 3 November in a freight-only mode.^{[citation needed]} On 7 December 2020 the ship was moved to the River Fal lay up berths near Falmouth, Cornwall.^[5] In April 2023 it arrived in Aliağa, Turkey for scrapping.^[6]

Pride of Burgundy has no identical sisters because of her conversion to multi-purpose passenger vessel during construction. She shares mechanical, layout and visual features with the other 'European Class' ships in the P&O fleet:-

• MS European Seaway
• MS Pride of Canterbury (ex-European Pathway)
• MS Pride of Kent (ex-European Highway)

Media related to Pride of Burgundy (ship, 1993) at Wikimedia Commons

• mv Pride of Burgundy @ The Online Guide to P&O Ferries