Pride Bench

The Pride of Winchester, was a UK Ro-Ro/Passenger ferry, which was part of P&O European Ferries' fleet. She was built in 1975 by Aalborg as the Viking Viscount for Townsend Thoresen and was put into service by P&O European Ferries in 1989, when European Ferries Group was purchased by P&O. She was named after Winchester, a city in Hampshire, England. The ship was originally deployed on the Felixstowe to Zeebrugge route she was later transferred to the Portsmouth to Cherbourg route until 1994 when she was replaced by a bigger ship, the original Pride of Le Havre. She also operated on the Calais-Dover line. In 1995 was sold to Lane Sea Lines, a Greek company for the Piraeus, Milos, Agios Nikolaos, Sitia route. Then the ship did the Piraeus, Kithira, Antikythera, Githio, Kalamata, Kisamos route. During the Summer of 2017 Vitsentzos Kornaros had a problem with her engines and then was laid-up in Kinosoura, Greece. In April 2020 Vitsentzos Kornaros was sold for scrap in Aliaga, Turkey.