On 1st November the HSS 1500 Stena Explorer (above) was towed away from her berth in Holyhead and from the port that had been her home since 6th February 1996. Having been withdrawn from the Holyhead- Dun Laoghaire service on 9th September 2014 (but officially in February 2015) the 19,638gt/1996 built vessel was sold to Karedeniz Holding of Turkey and renamed One World Karedeniz for use as floating office accommodation at the owner’s shipyard in Yalova, Turkey.