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|Ship caption=MV ''Normandie'' departing from Portsmouth Harbour, outward bound for Caen, 11 October 2010.
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|Ship name=MV ''Normandie''
|Ship owner={{ubl|Senecal (1990 -2020)|
[[Brittany Ferries]] (2020 - Present)}}
|Ship operator=Brittany Ferries
|Ship registry=[[Caen]], {{flag|France}}
|Ship route=[[Portsmouth]]-[[Caen]] ([[Ouistreham]]) 
|Ship ordered=May 1990
|Ship builder=[[Kværner Masa-Yards]] [[Perno shipyard|Turku New Shipyard]], [[Finland]]
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|Ship launched=3 October 1991
|Ship completed=1992
|Ship christened=15 May 1992
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|Ship maiden voyage=18 May 1992
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|Ship identification={{IMO Number|9006253}}
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|Ship status=in service
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|Ship tonnage=27,542 gt
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|Ship beam={{convert|26|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
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|Ship power=4 × [[Wärtsilä]] Vasa 12V32E; 6,033bhp each
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|Ship speed={{convert|20.5|kn}}
|Ship capacity=*2,123 passengers
*575 vehicles
|Ship crew=137
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'''MV ''Normandie''''' is a [[ferry]] operated by [[Brittany Ferries]]. She was built at [[Kværner Masa-Yards]] [[Perno shipyard|Turku New Shipyard]] in [[Finland]] and has been sailing for Brittany Ferries since 1992.

==SECA 2015 refit==
On the 1st January 2015, the EU (including the North Sea, English Channel, Eastern side of the Western Channel and Baltic Sea) will have sulphur in marine fuel cut from the allowance in 2014 of 1% to 0.1% of sulphur allowed. Later that month, Brittany Ferries then announced three intentions; To fit scrubbers to a number of older vessels, to convert newer vessels to [[Liquefied natural gas|LNG]], and to construct a new LNG powered ferry. Later, Brittany Ferries withdrew and cancelled the order for a new LNG-powered ferry and for the LNG conversions, and instead announced that all vessels were to have [[Scrubber|scrubbers systems]] fitted. Accordingly, Normandie was fitted with a scrubber in October 2015. In the same dry dock visit, improvements were made to her public areas.

==Routes served==
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*[[Portsmouth]]-[[Caen]] ([[Ouistreham]]) 1992–present

''Normandie'' rarely strays from the route for which she was built, however she has operated between [[Portsmouth]] and [[Cherbourg]] on a number of sailings, mostly for Christmas and New Year layovers but also in 1994 to transport the [[Tour de France]] back to its home country after a leg in the [[United Kingdom]].

In late 2016, Brittany Ferries signed a letter of intent with Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft for a new cruise ferry between Portsmouth-Caen to be delivered in 2019. The new vessel, ''Honfleur'', would result in a fleet movement with ''Normandie'' assigned to the Portsmouth-Le Havre service from late 2019.

In June 2020 Brittany Ferries announced the cancellation of the ''Honfleur'' contract with the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft shipyard in Germany meaning ''Normandie'' will remain in the Portsmouth-Caen route.

==External links==
* [http://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk Official Brittany Ferries Website]
* [https://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/ships/cruise-ferries/normandie/about about MV Normandie Official Brittany Ferries Website]

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