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Clipper due back in service following maintenance work

CONDOR’S passenger and freight ship, the Commodore Clipper, is due to resume normal service on Wednesday after spending a month in dry dock undergoing planned maintenance at a cost of almost £3m.

Commodore Clipper has been in dry dock in Falmouth for a month undergoing maintenance and is expected to be back in service on Wednesday. 
(Picture by Steve Sarre, 19533389)
Commodore Clipper has been in dry dock in Falmouth for a month undergoing maintenance and is expected to be back in service on Wednesday. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 19533389) / Guernsey Press

The ferry will operate her usual schedule, providing overnight travel from Guernsey and Jersey to Portsmouth with a daytime return.

She was in dry dock in Falmouth for a month undergoing extensive work, including a major servicing of the port main engine and gearbox, the ride control system and the alternator and an overhaul of the shaft seals.

All the life-saving equipment on board and monitoring and alarm systems were also repaired and upgraded.