Anthi Marina
 The Anthi Marina (left) alongside other ferries in Piraeus, July 2011
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The Anthi Marina was a ferry of the Greek GA Ferries , which entered service in 1980 as the Spirit of Free Enterprise for the British shipping company Townsend Thoresen . It stayed in service until 2008 and was scrapped in Turkey in 2012 .
history
The Spirit of Free Enterprise was built as the first of a total of three sister ships at Schichau Unterweser in Bremerhaven for the British shipping company Townsend Thoresen and launched on July 21, 1979. After delivery on January 11, 1980, the ship was put into service on January 14 on the route from Dover to Zeebrugge .
After the dissolution of Townsend Thoresen, the Spirit of Free Enterprise was taken over by P&O European Ferries in October 1987 like all ships of the shipping company and renamed Pride of Kent .
On December 7, 1991, the Pride of Kent arrived in Palermo to be remodeled by Fincantieri . The ship was lengthened from 131.96 to 163.39 meters. The tonnage increased from 7,951 to 20,446 gross registered tonnes . In June 1992 the Pride of Kent returned to service and was henceforth used on the route from Dover to Calais .
In the following years the ship was renamed twice. In December 1998 during his service since March for the P&O Stena Line in P & OSL Kent and in 2002 on the occasion of the establishment of P&O Ferries in PO Kent .
In June 2003 the PO Kent was taken out of service and offered for sale. The new owner in July 2003 was the Greek shipping company GA Ferries, who renamed the ship Anthi Marina . From December 2003 the route from Piraeus via Kos to Rhodes became a new operational area .
On 18 September 2008, was Anthi Marina as the largest ship of GA Ferries due to financial difficulties in Piraeus launched . In September 2011 the ship was moved to Eleusis and laid up there after the shipping company had been dissolved. In February 2012 the Anthi Marina was sold to a Turkish scrapping yard and towed to Aliağa on March 31, 2012 , where scrapping began in April.
Sister ships
The Anthi Marina had two sister ships, the Herald of Free Enterprise , which capsized off Zeebrugge in 1987, and the Sherbatskiy, which was scrapped in Alang in 2015 .
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- History of the ship on doverferryphotosforums.co.uk (English)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)