NEW FERRY HONOURS POET

摘要

The Irish Ferries tradition of giving vessels names from figures in Irish literature continues when the 55,000gt new building from the FSG yard at Flensburg in Germany makes a July debut as W. B. Yeats. The name found widespread favour from the public in an online competition that attracted more than 10,000 suggestions. The €144 million vessel is set to join a fleet already including Ulysses, commemorating the James Joyce novel; Oscar Wilde, carrying the name of the famed author; and high-speed catamaran Jonathan Swift, honouring the author of Gulliver's Travels.