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Townsend's new ferry launched
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• Free Enterprise IV (5,250 tons), which will be the biggest ship of her kind on the short sea routes from Britain, was launched in Schiedam, Holland, on Saturday and will be in service with Townsend Car Ferries from Dover to Zeebrugge from June 1.
Some 300 guests attended the launching at the yards of I.H.C. Holland, where Mrs. Kathleen Bradford, wife of one of Townsend's directors, carried out the traditional champagne ceremony.
The new ship which, like her sisters of the Free Enterprise fleet, has bow and stern doors, will carry 280 cars or a combination of 40 lorries and 60 cars, plus 1,200 passengers. She is the third ship of similar construction which Townsend has launched in the last four years. No sooner had she left the slipway than her builders announced that they were starting at once on "next year's model".