P&O European Ferries [SEP] dissolved or abolished
P&amp;O European Ferries
P&O European Ferries (formerly Townsend Thoresen), a division of P&O Ferries, was a ferry company which operated in the English Channel from 1987 after the "Herald of Free Enterprise" disaster, when "Townsend Thoresen" was renamed "P&O European Ferries", until 1999 when the Portsmouth Operations became P&O Portsmouth and the Dover Operations were merged with Stena Line AB to make P&O Stena Line.
History.
P&O European Ferries was formed after the Townsend Thoresen ship, Herald of Free Enterprise, capsized
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Former P&O Stena operations today.
The Dover-Calais service has essentially returned to its pre-merger P&O European Ferries form with no former Stena Line ships remaining. Ships that were to remain in the P&O Ferries fleet either returned to their original "Pride of" names (except "PO Canterbury" and "PO Kent") or gained the prefix. European Pathway and European Highway were converted into multi-purpose vessels and became "Pride of Canterbury" and "Pride of Kent" respectively replacing "