M/S St. Adwen 1967 Ocean Liner
Hello again! This is my second big ship, the Sealink St. Adwen, and she is quite a worthy successor to the Stena Unity. I’ve decided that I might as well bite the bullet (no pun intended) and release this ship in the midst of weapons mania, but rest assured I started work on the vessel many months ago, well before the dlc was known about. That said, I have a feeling this is going to do quite well, so prove me right or wrong!
HISTORY:
The St. Adwen was launched as an experimental ship in February 1967, to try out the revolutionary design features proposed for Sealink’s new, large, ferry, St. George before constructing them into a ship of considerable size. She was intended to operate on a North Atlantic operation, a first for Sealink, sailing from Bristol, UK, to Boston, US, but as the media predicted, this route was doomed to fail and after a loss-making Summer 1967 season, St. Adwen was laid up for the Winter. All was not bad though. The design had lived up to expectations and allowed the ship to make her sailings much faster with the same amount of fuel, so it was with confidence that Sealink ordered their large new Sister ship, St. George, for the Harwich-Hoek van Holland sailing. By Summer 1968, the British Rail-owned company had chosen a route for their ship, A Bristol (later changed to Cardiff, where the former Bristolian ship was re-registered following the move) to Naples holiday service, allowing British tourists to see the stunning sights of Southern Italy. This venture proved successful, and the St. Adwen seemed exceptionally well suited to the pleasant Mediterranean journey. In the winter months when tourism was low, St. Adwen assisted her larger Sister between the UK and the Netherlands, providing useful extra capacity for Christmas traffic. In 1982, St Adwen was requisitioned as a troop ship to carry troops to South America in the Falklands War. She served gallantly and returned with great respect from the British public, before re-entering service on her accustomed route. Such operation lasted until 1989, by which time the budget airline industry had boomed so much that tourist journeys by ship were no longer financially viable. Therefore, it was with much regret from regular passengers that Sealink withdrew the St. Adwen from service, where she was sent to operate in India as a gambling ship of the coast of Mumbai. An un-glamorous fate befell the vessel when a fire broke out in her former restaurant, eventually sinking the ship in shallow waters where she was town to Alang for scrap on September 17th 2007.
STATS:
Length: 54m
Width: 19m
Top Speed: 21 knots
Passenger count: Around 150 persons
CREDITS:
-Pilot/Minuteman for the Reading Lounge
-NotMopMan for the lifeboats (smashing as always)
-Chien, Harry_rn and Hostbanani for the arcade machines
-Mr Lennyn for the Chess machines
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