She was chartered to DFDS Seaways in August 2010 and early September 2010 to provide refit cover on the Birkenhead–Dublin and Belfast routes.
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The ship was built in 2000 for Merchant Ferries as Midnight Merchant for a planned service between Liverpool and Belfast, however the ship was chartered to Norfolkline for their new service between Dover and Dunkirk and remained on that route until July 2006 when she was replaced by one of three new ships for the service.
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Due to a downturn in freight traffic P&O Ferries laid up the ship in Tilbury in May 2010.
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P&O took delivery of the ship in October 2007 from Acciona Trasmediterránea.
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In August 2006 she was chartered to Acciona Trasmediterránea for service in the Mediterranean and renamed El Greco registered under the Spanish flag.
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Murillo of Acciona Trasmediterránea is of a similar design to Racehorses but has an altered lower passenger deck and was completed in 2002.
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She remained in Dunkerque until early February 2011 when she sailed for Liverpool in preparation for returning to service on the Liverpool-Dublin service replacing the M/V Norcape.
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