All Posts Tagged With: "Condor Ferries"

Condor Ferries is helping a Guernsey 4×4 ambulance vehicle to become a firefighting vehicle in Kosovo. The Isuzu Trooper 4 x 4 emergency vehicle, now out of service in the island, was purchased by local charity the Ambulance Relocation Trust. The vehicle has been acquired by Rotary District 1290’s Overseas Project Team, based in Cornwall, [...]

PLANS are currently being finalised for this year’s Town Carnival, due to get underway on Saturday 17 July. The event will open on the Saturday morning and will see the streets of St Peter Port filled with performers when a parade of dancers, majorettes, a samba band and the Guernsey Concert Brass Band makes its [...]

CONDOR Ferries is pleased to be supporting three former members of the UK Armed Services on their charity cycle ride from Guernsey to Gibraltar, which starts tomorrow [Friday 9 July]. Guernsey-based members of the Channel Island volunteers of Help for Heroes will cycle more than 2,100km to Gibraltar. They plan to ride more than 170km [...]

Condor 10, the car-carrying wavepiercer which revolutionised cross-Channel travel, made its last journey to Guernsey yesterday (Tuesday 1 June 2010). The ferry was built in Tasmania in 1992 and came on to the Weymouth-Channel Islands route with Condor in April 1993 as the company’s first car-carrying fast ferry, replacing the smaller, passenger-only wavepiercer Condor 9. [...]

Guernsey News, 11 May 2010 – Condor Ferries is celebrating National Ferry fortnight (8 to 22 May) by giving people the chance to travel to France and Guernsey for just the cost of the harbour charges. Day trippers who book during National Ferry Fortnight can travel to St Malo for just £6.88 and inter-island for [...]

Guernsey News, 7 May 2010 – Condor Ferries’ new ship Condor Rapide will enter service on the Channel Islands routes in the middle of May just a few weeks after she was purchased by the company. Condor Rapide has been alongside in Weymouth where a complex programme of work to upgrade the ship is nearing [...]

Guernsey News, 13 April 2010 – Condor Ferries regrets that it will be operating an amended schedule on certain services between the Channel Islands and the UK because of an engine problem with Condor Express. A crack in the engine casing of one of the four engines on Condor Express was discovered during routine maintenance [...]

Guernsey News, 1 April 2010 – A FIRE appliance and breathing apparatus are on their way from Guernsey to Africa to help ill-equipped firefighters on the continent. The equipment is being transported by Condor Ferries on the Commodore Clipper from Guernsey to the UK before being transported to Africa. Ian Milner, Condor Ferries Channel Islands [...]

Guernsey News, 30 March 2010 – Condor Ferries announced today that it has invested in a larger ferry to operate on the route between Guernsey and St Malo. The ship, which is to be called Condor Rapide will replace Condor 10 and is expected to come into service before the Spring Bank Holiday. Condor Rapide [...]

Guernsey News, 8 February 2010 – Two of Condor Ferries’ most promising Chief Officers have successfully achieved their Special Pilot’s Licence in Guernsey. Steve Crowe and Mark Thompson completed an extensive 3 week training course with Guernsey Harbours, culminating in a rigorous exam. The exam qualifies them to pilot the three Condor Ferries fast vessels [...]