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The United Kingdom to Norway ferry service was a route connecting Newcastle in England, United Kingdom with Stavanger, Bergen, and Haugesund in Norway, Scandinavia. It existed for over 140 years until 2008, when it was last operated by DFDS Seaways. Between 2010 and 2015 the service has tried to be relaunched by various companies. ==History== In the late part of the 1800s services operated between Manchester, Liverpool and around to Copenhagen. In 1890 a company called Bergen Line opened a new connection between UK and Norway. In 1978 MS ''Winston Churchill'' started operating a twice-weekly sailing from Newcastle to Gothenburg, but by the time 1981 came the now primary route because Newcastle to Oslo; as operated by MS ''England''. By the time 1994 arrives MS ''King of Scandinavia'' is purchased by the company Color Line, renamed MS ''Color Viking'', and enters service on between Newcastle, Stavanger, Bergen and Haugesund. Before long the company sells the Norway to UK route with the vessel to Norwegian ferry operator Fjord Line. Fjord Line decide to rename the vessel in 1998 to MS ''Jupiter'', but elsewhere on the North Sea network two existing DFDS services are merged, the route between Harwich and Gothenburg, with that of Newcastle to Gothenburg. The combined new route now forms a singular passage, travelling directly from Gothenburg to Newcastle, via Kristiansand in Norway. For a number of years Fjord Line continue to operate successfully on their Newcastle to Norway ferry route. In September 2006 company DFDS look at acquisition and decide to purchase MS ''Fjord Norway'' from the Norwegian shipping company Fjord Line. This move allows the company to own two sister ships, MS ''Fjord Norway'' and MS ''King of Scandinavia''. Their newest addition to the fleet is undergoes a refurbishment, name change before being re-deployed between Stavanger, Haugesund, Bergen and Newcastle under the new DFDS colors. Meanwhile, the company announces the closure of their Gothenburg to Kristiansand and Newcastle route on November 1, 2006, this allows their existing asset MS ''Princess of Scandinavia'' to be sold off, and also pushes the market towards their new operating route. MS ''Princess of Norway'' is relieved in May 2007 of the Newcastle, Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen service, to be taken over by MS ''Queen of Scandinavia''. This allows DFDS to operate their vessel MS ''Princess of Norway'' with her sister MS ''King of Scandinavia'' ship on the Amsterdam to Newcastle service. The service was operated by one passenger cruise ferry which would offer overnight cabin accommodation, automobiles and the movement of freight. The ferry operated all year round across the North Sea and was usually done so by an overnight sailing. In the Summer the service was mostly tailored to the tourist market, and the timetable tweaked to reflect extra sailings where possible. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newcastle–Bergen–Stavanger ferry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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