This book, written to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Sealink's formation in 1970 brings together a selection of articles looking at various aspects of the company. When the name was first introduced in 1969, it was intended as a short-term marketing name to bring some unity to the wide range of nationalised shipping operations then under railway control. The name would finally disappear under Stena Line ownership in the 1990s, but remains a well though of part of British ferry history.
Each article in this book covers a different subject and all are well illustrated with archive black & white and more recent colour photographs. 96 pages.
Chapter List:
- Sealink 1970
- A Lifetime with Sealink: An Interview with Jim Ashby
- The Story of the Maid of Kent
- Sealink's Container Ship Operations
- St George
- St Edmund
- The Caesarea and the End of a Glorious Era
- The Legacy of the Humber Ferry
- Casualty of Privatisation: The Channel Island Services
- The Hengist and Horsa's 1986 Refits
- Fantasia & Felicity 30 Years On
- Stena Sealink Line's Faster Option
- Sealink 1995
- Under the Aegean Sun: Sealink Ferries in Greek Waters
- A Sealink Walking Tour of London
- Sealink's Survivors