In 1990, Sealink was taken over by Stena Line, and with this new investment, came a £8 million re-fit for St Columba, and her name was changed to Stena Hibernia.
The Vronskiy was built in 1978 as the Prinses Beatrix by Verolme Shipyard, in Heusden, The Netherlands and worked for Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland on their joint Sealink route between Hoek van Holland and Harwich, Parkeston Quay.
Services to France, Belgium and the Netherlands were also run by Sealink UK as part of the Sealink consortium which also used ferries owned by French national railways, the SNCF, the Belgian Maritime Transport Authority, Regie voor Maritiem Transport / Regie des transports maritimes (RMT/RTM) and the Dutch Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland (Zeeland Steamship Company).
SEAlink, and most other XMODEM enhancements, were quickly displaced following the introduction of ZMODEM.
British Railways ships for details of all ships operated by British Railways and Sealink.
He was a port engineer for Aramco in Saudi Arabia from 1977-8, then chief engineer for Anscar from 1978-9, and Sealink Ferries from Dover from 1979-92.
In September 2004 Sealink acquired Subritzky Shipping of Auckland New Zealand, and renamed it as the SeaLink Travel Group.
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In Auckland, SeaLink operates regular services to Waiheke Island and Great Barrier Island.
The SeaLink Travel Group is a group of companies including Kangaroo Island SeaLink, which operates vehicle and passenger ferry services to Kangaroo Island.
However the highlight was arguably winning a Stage in the Sealink International after outsprinting Dirk De Wolf, the eventual race winner.
When Stena Line bought Sealink British Ferries in 1990, the Isle of Wight ferries remained with Sea Containers, as ‘Wightlink’.