The GNV Atlas is a Peter Pan-class cruiseferry currently owned and operated by the Italian shipping company SNAV.

The plans came under scrutiny of the relevant competition regulators, and as a result Brittany Ferries decided not to charter the ships.

[1][2] On 30 December 2005, Pride of Portsmouth was renamed SNAV Lazio, but she retained United Kingdom flag for the time being.

On 27 March 2006 she was re-registered in Italy, and in May of the same year she entered service on SNAV's routes from Civitavecchia to Palermo and Olbia.

[2][13] In the early hours of 27 October 2002, during high winds of between 35 and 40 knots (65 and 74 km/h; 40 and 46 mph) and gusts reaching 70 knots (130 km/h; 81 mph) within Portsmouth Harbour, Pride of Portsmouth collided with the warship, HMS St Albans moored at the end of Fountain Lake Jetty during her turn into Fountain Lake.

[15] In comparison, Pride of Portsmouth sustained only superficial damage including a small gash on her bow.

[15] Olau Britannia was the fourth of four sisters in the AG Weser Seebeckwerft designed Peter Pan class, the others being: MS Peter Pan (1986) was the first of the sisters built by AG Weser Seebeckwerft, Bremerhaven, Germany for TT-Line.

In 2006 she was sold to DFDS Seaways[16] to serve the IJmuiden (Netherlands)–Newcastle (Britain) route as MS Princess of Norway.

MS Nils Holgersson (1987) was the second of the sisters built by AG Weser Seebeckwerft, Bremerhaven, Germany for TT-Line.