In early 2013, under bareboat charter to Transeuropa Ferries, she served on their Ramsgate–Ostend route and was re-named MS Ostend Spirit.

After further lay-up in the Port of Tilbury, she was sold for scrap and finally beached at a salvage yard in Turkey on 13 November 2013.

[4] Pride of Calais was the first vessel to appear in the livery of the new company, P&O European Ferries (Dover) Limited,[3] re-branded followed the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster.

She arrived at Belfast at midday on 16 February to examine and repair the damage to her forward rudder skeg which was taking in water.

With the arrival of Spirit of France, Pride of Calais left service on 9 February 2012 to be laid up in Tilbury.

[3] In December 2012, she started a three-year bareboat charter to Transeuropa Ferries for their Ramsgate - Ostend route.

Her P&O livery, house flag and name were painted out and she departed Tilbury on 19 December 2012 for berthing trials in Ramsgate and Ostend.

Renamed Ostend Spirit, she underwent a refit and livery change at Antwerp and began service on the Ramsgate-Ostend route on 1 February 2013.

[citation needed] P&O provided a bridge master and a few other crew members to ensure safety on board while the vessel was in warm layup.