Comté de Nice (ship)

Comté de Nice

The Comté de Nice during a special voyage in L'Île-Rousse , June 1974

Ship data flag  France other ship names Naias II (1983-2000) Express Naias (2000-2003) Ship type Ferry home port Marseille Shipping company Compagnie Générale Transatlantique Shipyard Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence, Port-de-Bouc Build number 327 Launch February 24, 1966 takeover July 27, 1966 Commissioning July 30, 1966 Decommissioning October 2001 Whereabouts Scrapped in Turkey in 2003

Ship dimensions and crew length 111.41 m ( Lüa ) width 18.14 m Draft Max. 4.36 m measurement 4,555 GRT

Machine system machine 2 × Pielstick diesel engines Machine performance 10,946 kW (14,882 hp) Top speed 20.5 kn (38 km / h) propeller 2 ×

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 1,408 Vehicle capacity 240 cars

Others Classifications Bureau Veritas Registration numbers IMO 6622616

The Comté de Nice was a ferry of the French shipping company Compagnie Générale Transatlantique put into service in 1966 . Until 1982 the ferry was in use for various owners between Nice and Corsica as well as Marseille and Algiers before it was sold to Greece in 1983 . There the ship was active as Naias II and Express Naias until 2001. In 2003 the demolition took place in Aliağa, Turkey .

history

The Comté de Nice was built under the hull number 327 in the shipyard of Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence in Port-de-Bouc and was launched on February 24, 1966 under the originally planned, but later changed name, Provence . The ferry was completed in La Ciotat before it was handed over to the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique on July 27, 1966. Three days later it was put into service between Nice and Corsica. During the winter months, the ship was in use between Marseille and Algiers.

In the following years, the Comté de Nice changed hands twice: in 1969 it went to the Compagnie Générale Transméditerranéenne, and in 1976 to the Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée . This did not change anything about the ship's route. On September 28, 1982 the ferry completed its last crossing and was then laid up in Marseille .

In May 1983 the ship went to the Greek shipping company Naias Pireus Shipping as Naias II , for which it was used from Piraeus on various routes. In 1989 the ferry became the property of Agapitos Lines , before it was bought by the shipping company Minoan Flying Dolphins in December 1999 and used as Express Naias for their subsidiary Hellas Ferries from 2000 onwards .

In October 2001 the Express Naias was shut down due to new safety regulations. A year earlier, the sister ship Express Samina, also in service for Hellas Ferries, sank after colliding with a rock, killing 82 people. From July 2002 the laid-up ship was in Drapetsona before arriving on April 6, 2003 for scrapping in Aliağa, Turkey.

Web links

• the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
• the ship on adriaticandaegeanferries.com (English)