Another query, from a location I can't personally identify.
Clearly, one of the ferries operated by Atlantic Steam Navigation Company and, from what I can make of the name, I think:

CERDIC FERRY (5067376), Atlantic SN Co Ltd, 2563gt,
completed Ailsa SB Co, Troon, 5-1961
1961 CERDIC FERRY - 1981 ATLAS I - 1987 SIFNOS - 1990 SIFNOS EXPRESS - 1994 IGOUMENITSA EXPRESS - 1998 ORESTES
BU Aliaga 3.4.07 [Yazici-Resa] I think this is a wide-angle shot which makes her after-deck look much longer than it really was (or was she lengthened later in life - not so recorded by Miramar?)
Ron

I think CERDIC or DORIC after they had the cranes removed from after deck .... and likely to be on south/west side of Tilbury Dock with the first section of the Tilbury Grain Terminal in background.
Name length suggests CERDIC as you write.

If Wikipedia is correct the Tilbury Grain Terminal was brought into use from 1969, and Atlantic SN ran from Tilbury to Antwerp until 1968, so could fit as you suggest. Thanks.

Ron

Confident photo is of the Gaelic Ferry which entered service in early 1964 and was a larger and later version of the Cerdic Ferry and Doric Ferry, themselves an improvement on the Bardic Ferry and Ionic Ferry. The Gaelic Ferry was the first to be built without a crane on the after deck.

Thanks, John. Could be!
GAELIC FERRY (5427148), Atlantic SN Co Ltd, 2756gt,
completed Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend, 1-1964
lengthened 1973 to 3316gt,
BU Kaohsiung 23.2.88 [Chi Shun Hua Steel Co]

According to her detailed history at: http://www.doverferryphotosforums.co.uk ... d-present/
she was laid-up at Tilbury in December 1980, seemingly until November 1981.

Ron

Ron
100% sure - Bardic and Ionic had tripod masts, Cerdic and Doric had three tiers of accommodation, not four as in this photo. Europic, the last to be built had a very angular funnel with a deflector fin, and was the largest to be built.

Other than the Europic, which had too great a beam,they were designed to be able to use Preston on the Preston to Larne service. Having said that, I do not think the Gaelic Ferry ever called.
John

Not that I'm into Ferries, but that Dover Site has a lot of information.

A second visit is recommended.

See also: viewtopic.php?f=206&t=11823

R.