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| SHIPS OF THE CROATIA, ITALY & GREECE TRIP: JULY 2005 All pictures © matt@hhvferry.com |
| Wednesday July 20 Morning: Piraeus and area 16. Piraeus to Paros on DIMITROULA (VERGA, 1978) |
| Above: The Menhir (ex-Lobo Marinho) seen refitting at Perama on July 20. |
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| Above: The Athina (ex-Bahia de Ceuta) seen refitting on July 20. Her sister Phivos (ex-Punta Europa), had already entered service for Nova Ferries on their new Piraeus-Aegina run after a fairly lavish refurbishment. |
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| Above: What might have been... The GA Ferries 2005 calendar seen hanging in a Piraeus ticket agency shows a mock-up of their new acquisition, the second Alkmini A (ex-Pride of Provence/Stena Jutlandica) in full GA livery. In the event, the ship returned to Northern European waters as Kystlink's Pride of Telemark before she ever had chance to enter Greek service. |
| Click here for the pictures from Part Six of the 2005 July trip |
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| Top & Below: The one-time Roi Baudouin of the Belgian RMT seen on July 20 awaiting the scrappers as Georgios Express. She was last operated by Ventouris Sea Lines in 2000. |
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| Above & Below: With their refurbishments running chaotically late, the two new ships for Agoudimos Lines' Bari-Igoumenitsa-Patras run were still in Perama in mid-July. The ex-Japanese ferries are respectively Ionian Queen (above in dry dock) and Ionian King (below). The former is actually owned and appears in the colours of Endeavor Line with whom Agoudimos have teamed up. |
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| Above: The tiny Alkyon was originally the Gotland company's Gotlandia of 1965 but has spent most of her career in Greek waters, primarily as the Skopelos. She has been laid up in Keratsini since her last operational season in 2001 when she ran to Albania out of Brindisi before being arrested. |
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| Above: Another ship whose refit was seemingly running late was the Okeanis, once the pioneer Free Enterprise of Townsend. The ship has spent the last few years operating day cruises out of Rhodes but has now taken up a similar role in the Ionian Islands after a fairly thorough refurbishment. |
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| Above: Replacing the banned Nisos Limnos for 2005 was the Samothraki. Once the Viking Voyager and then the first Pride of Cherbourg, the ship spent a decade in Canary Island operations for Fred. Olsen before being replaced by new fast ferries and purchased, presumably for a modest amount, by expansion-minded, subsidy-chasing SAOS Ferries. The ship is seen here at Piraeus on July 20. |