MS European Gateway was a roll-on roll-off (RORO) car and passenger ferry built in 1975, originally owned and operated by Townsend Thoresen.

On 19 December 1982, she capsized following a collision with Speedlink Vanguard off Harwich, settling on a sandbank.

The ship had 34 passengers and 36 crew at the time.

Six people were killed in the capsizing.

[2] She was subsequently refloated[3] and repaired, and served the Greek Islands as Penelope, until 2013 when she was scrapped at the Aliaga breakyards (Turkey)[4] The European Gateway has three sister ships: