page_title: European Ferries
section_title: Townsend Thoresen
hierarchical_section_title: European Ferries / Townsend Thoresen
caption_attribution_description: English: Herald of Free Enterprise - Eastern Docks - Dover - GBDeutsch: Herald of Free Enterprise - Eastern Docks, Dover in Großbritannien
context_page_description: European Ferries Group plc was a company that operated in passenger and freight ferries, harbour operation and property management in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was taken over by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and renamed P&O European Ferries in 1987.
caption: MS Herald of Free Enterprise in Dover's Eastern Docks, 1984
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