High-speed Sea Service

[2] In 2016 Stena Explorer was sold and exported to Turkey to be converted into a floating office after spending a period of time laid up in Holyhead.

Up until November 2008 and as of August 2014, Stena Explorer had been making two return trips to Dublin per day, at a faster advertised speed of 99 minutes.

Taking a route via Dover and the Isle of Wight she arrived in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 24 January 2007, pending use as spare parts or possible sale.

[7] The HSS service was replaced with twice daily - one day, one night - sailings on a pair of traditional super ferries.

The reasons cited for the replacement by conventional ferries were decreasing passenger patronage, coupled with escalating fuel costs.

The operation was more economical as, with Venezuela being an oil-producing country, the original problem of fuel costs ceased to exist.

HSS 1500 Stena Explorer leaving Holyhead en route to Dún Laoghaire
HSS 1500 Stena Voyager leaving Stranraer en route to Belfast
HSS 1500 Stena Discovery leaving Hook of Holland en route to Harwich
HSS 900 Stena Carisma in Gothenburg
HSS 1500 Stena Discovery sitting just in front of the Dry Dock at Harland and Wolff ship yard in Belfast , April 2007
HSS 1500 Stena Discovery sitting at a mooring at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, April 2007
HSS 1500 Stena Discovery moored in Belfast, April 2007