Ro/Ro Aegean Glory

Ro/Ro AEGEAN GLORY

Photo © Georges Pop

Ship	Aegean Glory (2002) ΕΤΖΙΑΝ ΓΛΟΡΥ	Building spec.	1976 at Luigi Orlando yards, Leghorn, Italy N° 144
GRT	5.281	DWT	2.584
Dimensions	119,31 x 17,53 x 5,15	Engines	2 Fiat GMT 18c, 6.620 kW
Speed	18,5 knots	Passengers	12
Beds	12	Cars
Lane meters	780	Sister ships	Tonia V.
Registry port.	Piraeus	Flag	Greek
Former Owners	Lloyd Triestino 1976-86 Adriatica 1986-93 Fair Mark Shipping 1993-94 Hondius Shipping 1994 Antiparos Shipping 1994-96 Marietta Shipping 1996-97 European Sea 1998-02	Former Names	Nuova Ventura 1976-93 Cap Vert 1993-94 Nuova 1994 Atlantis 1994-96 Marietta II 1996-98 Francoise I 1998-02
New Owners		New Names
Line	Piraeus – Heraklion; Marghera (Venice) – Patras; Bari – Patras

Another ro/ro coming from Leghorn to the Greek seas, has as the best part of the ferries launched at Luigi Orlando yards, the typical shape of the wheelhouse. She served in pair with her sister the best part of her career, started in 1976 when she was delivered to Lloyd Triestino and was sold to Adriatica in 1986. Was resold, more or less at the same time of her sister, to a Panama – based company at the beginning of 90’s and named “Cap Vert”; subsequently was sold two times to Piraeus-based ship-owners, and probably also the shipowner who bought her from Adriatica was Greek. It’s interesting to notice that she was rebuilt at the same time of her sister at Perama, in 1994; I don’t know what was the work carried out on the ferry during that time; I guess that it was a work carried out to increase the passenger capacity, as long as her sister, when under Poseidon Lines’s colours as “Sea Symphony”, operated as a passenger ferry with open deck for camping on board facilities; however actually her passenger capacity is the classic figure of a cargo, 12 passengers. It would be interesting also to know what were the routes served by this ship from 1993 to 1997; on that time she abandoned the Greek seas connecting Lorient, in France, to Casablanca, Morocco; was then renamed “Francoise I” and employed on a link between Rosslare and Cork; then was chartered to Dart Line for their Dartford – Vlissingen service, then sailing again out of Rosslare, linking the British port to Brest until her sale to Aegean Cargo, on April 2002. I can’t understand what was her first service, as long as Aegean Cargo already had two ferries on the Pireeus – Heraklion line; anyway since June 2003 is chartered to Anek Cargo where she sails on Piraeus – Heraklion line as well as on Italy – Greece routes alternating with her three service-mates.

Photo © Spiridon E. Zervos, Patras, 01/05/04

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