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31st May 2022

Former Irish Sea Fast Ferry to Operate Barcelona to Mallorca and Menorca

Former Irish Sea fast-ferry Jonathan Swift continues to operate in the Mediterranean as the Cecilia Payne. This summer the 40-knot high-speed craft (HSC) will serve between Barcelona and the Belearics.

A former Irish Sea fast ferry which operates from Spain, will this summer link Barcelona to Alcudia, Mallorca with Ciutadella, Minorca thanks to Palma-based operator, Baleària.

As Majorca Daily Bulletin reports, the ferry company unveiled plans for the route using the Australian-built Cecilia Payne. The vessel is named after the British–American astrophysicist.

Between 1999 and 2018 the catamaran craft custom-built for Irish Ferries served as Jonathan Swift on the Dublin-Holyhead route.

On its entry into service in July 1999, Jonathan Swift increased Irish Ferries' passenger capacity on the Dublin-Holyhead route by 73% and its car capacity by 50%.

The fastferry has spent its entire career on this route (until sold to Balearia in 2018), operating alongside the company's conventional ferries.

The craft which has a capacity for 800 passengers and 200 cars.

Afloat.ie adds the 'Swift' was replaced by another fast-ferry the Dublin Swift which in April this year resumed fast-ferry crossings on the Ireland-Wales route.

The successor fast-ferry took on the name of 'Dublin Swift' as used by Irish Ferries to market the Jonathan Swift.

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