Achilles (ship)

Achilles

As Orion in Piraeus, 1984

Ship data flag  Greece other ship names Orion (1968–1995) Thomas II (1995–1997) Olympia I (1997–2006) Sun (2006) Ship type Passenger ship home port Piraeus Shipping company Thiraiki Atmoploia Shipyard Ansaldo , Livorno Build number 1475 baptism May 23, 1952 Launch May 23, 1952 takeover May 1953 Commissioning May 1953 Decommissioning 1998 Whereabouts Wrecked in Turkey in 2006

Ship dimensions and crew length 126.9 m ( Lüa ) width 16.82 m Draft Max. 5.73 m measurement 5,500 GT

Machine system machine Ansaldo rod steam turbines Machine performance 8,000 kW (10,877 hp) Top speed 17 kn (31 km / h) propeller 2 × fixed propellers

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 300

Others Registration numbers IMO no. 5001889

The Achilleus was a passenger ship that was put into service in 1953 by the Greek shipping company Thiraiki Atmoploia . In 1968 the ship was sold and converted for cruises . The Achilleus remained in service under several owners and names until 1998 and was then launched before being scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey in 2006 .

history

The Achilleus was built at Ansaldo in Livorno and launched on May 23, 1952. The ship was war compensation from Italy to Greece and was delivered to the Greek government in May 1953, which then had it transferred to the shipping company Thiraiki Atmoploia.

The Achilles was used for the following fourteen years on the route from Piraeus to Venice and Piraeus to Alexandria , until the shipping company had to decommission the ship in 1967 due to financial problems and had it auctioned in 1968. The new owner was Kavounides Shipping , who renamed the ship Orion and then had it converted for cruises.

The Orion remained in service for Mediterranean cruises for twelve years until it was taken over by the Hellenic Industrial Development Bank in 1980 due to financial problems of the shipping company and launched in Eleusis .

The ship spent the next fifteen years as a trailer before it was bought by Epirotiki Lines and used as a floating restaurant under the name Olympia I in the port of Piraeus. After two years as a stationary restaurant ship, the Olympia I was sold to Royal Olympic Cruises in 1997 and used for day cruises before it was launched again in Eleusis in 1998.

After seven years Aufliegezeit the ship in October 2005 for breaking into the Indian Alang sold. On January 11, 2006, the ship under the transfer name Sun left the Bay of Eleusis to set out on its last voyage to India. Before Port Said , however, a fire broke out on the ship's navigating bridge, which was then laid up in Port Said. Instead of going to India, the damaged Sun was sold to Aliağa, Turkey, in September 2006, where it arrived on November 1, 2006.

Web links

• technical data and history of the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)

Footnotes

1. ^ Reuben Goossens: Eleusis Bay Greece. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .