Irish Ferries has chartered the vessel Norbay to replace Epsilon on its Dublin to Holyhead and Cherbourg routes after P&O Ferries withdrew it from their Liverpool-Dublin service.
MS Norbay (1994-built, IMO 9056595) will provide an "economy class service," and it began passenger service on November 5th, with its first freight sailing departing Dublin at 11 AM SBT.
MS Epsilon, while initially covering the drydocking of WB Yeats on the Dublin-Cherbourg route, will eventually leave the Irish Ferries fleet when WB Yeats returns from drydock, leaving Norbay in service on the Holyhead-Cherbourg routes into 2024.
Epsilon, chartered by Irish Ferries since 2013, is being recalled by the new shipowner (Euroafrica Services/since 2022) and is expected to see service on Unity Lines (Poland) routes between Sweden and Poland.