MS European Envoy
MS "Envoy" was an Iceclass III Ro-Ro Passenger Ferry vessel. History. "Ibex " was built in 1979 by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Japan, a sister to "Puma". She entered service on the Fleetwood-Larne service. In 1984, as "Norsea", she was transferred to the North Sea Ferries' Ipswich-Rotterdam (Europoort) service. In 1986, she was rename "Norsky", releasing the original name for the new large passenger ferry . In 1995, she returned to the Irish Sea as "Ibex", this time running Liverpool-Dublin. In 1996 she was substantially rebuilt, with a new upper trailer deck. Renamed "European Envoy" in  1998, she moved to the Mostyn-Dublin route in 2001. When the operation was sold to Stena Line in April 2004, the ferry was renamed "Envoy", laid up and later sold to Trond A Kittelsen Shipping A/S, Norway. They chartered her to Kystlink, for service on Langesund-Hirtshals route. She was sold to Kystlink in October 2004 and had her passenger capacity extended. The service ended in June 2005. Several charters followed, seeing her on the Liverpool-Dublin service (P&O), and the Lübeck-Mukran-Saint Petersburg-Baltiysk-Lübeck circuit (Transrussia). In September 2005, "Envoy" was chartered to Nedlines for  a new service between IJmuiden and Harwich. In November 2006, she was sold to DFDS Lisco, who subsequently used her to cover for other vessels on various routes, whilst they were undergoing repairs and maintenance. She was scrapped at Aliaga in January 2012.