MV Pont-Aven

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Pont-Aven approaching Millbay Docks (Plymouth)
History
Name	Pont-Aven
Owner	SOMABRET (2004 - 2020) Brittany Ferries (2020 - Present)
Operator	Brittany Ferries
Port of registry	Morlaix,  France
Route	Plymouth - Santander Portsmouth - Santander Plymouth - Roscoff Roscoff - Cork Portsmouth - Saint-Malo (winters only)
Ordered	2002
Builder	Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany
Cost	£100m
Laid down	9 April 2003[1]
Launched	13 September 2003
Completed	2004
Maiden voyage	23 March 2004
In service	23 March 2004
Identification	IMO number: 9268708 Call sign: FNPN MMSI number: 228183600
Status	In Service
General characteristics [2]
Tonnage	40,859 GT
Length	186.3 m (611.2 ft)
Beam	30.9 m (101.4 ft)
Draught	6.8 m (22.3 ft)
Depth	9.7 m (31.8 ft)
Decks	10
Ice class	1B
Installed power	Four MaK 12M43 diesels, 14,675bhp each
Speed	Cruising: 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) Maximum: 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph) [3]
Capacity	2,415 passengers 600 vehicles
Crew	185

Pont-Aven is a cruiseferry operated by Brittany Ferries. She was built at Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany and has been sailing for Brittany Ferries since March 2004. She is the current and longest serving Brittany Ferries flagship; sailing between the UK, France, Spain and Ireland. Pont Aven is the fastest and largest purpose-built cruise-ferry on the English Channel.

Prior to being named, Pont-Aven was referred to as Bretagne 2; this was then the codename for the new Brittany Ferries vessel for the Plymouth–Roscoff route, the Armorique. Pont-Aven's layout is similar in many respects to that of another Brittany Ferries vessel, Bretagne.