Med Star

Med Star

Ship data flag  Togo other ship names Lemnos Panagia Tinou Trabzon Medstar Ship type RoPax ship Callsign 5VCH6 home port Lome Owner Med Star Shipping Co SA Shipping company Global Management and Trading Shipyard Hellenic General Enterprise, Perama Build number 389 Launch 18th December 1974 takeover March 1976 Whereabouts scrapped after fire

Ship dimensions and crew length 79.00 m ( Lüa ) width 12.40 m Draft Max. 4.30 m measurement 1,786 GRT

Machine system machine 2 × 9-cylinder MAK diesel Machine performance 4,708 kW (6,401 hp) Top speed 17.0 kn (31 km / h)

Transport capacities Load capacity 378 dw Permitted number of passengers 654 Vehicle capacity 85 cars

Others Registration numbers IMO 7392531

The Med Star was a RoPax ship that was last used between Mersin and Tripoli .

history

The ship was built by the Hellenic General Enterprise shipyard in Perama and delivered in March 1976. Initially, Nomicos Lines deployed the ship between the Sporades and between Piraeus , Paras, Naxos , and Santorini , and between Volos , Skiathos , Skopelos and Alonnisos . In 1999 the ship was finally sold to Minoan Flying Dolphins and from April 2004 chartered to Southern Ferries . It served the Gibraltar - Tangier route . In October 2000, Halkidon Shipping bought the ship and renamed it Panagia Tinou . From November 2002 Ventouris Sea Lines started using the ship from Syros .

In February 2007 NEL Lines bought the ship. In March 2009 the ship was sold to Trabzon Shipping Inc. and renamed Trabzon . in June 2013, Med Star Shipping Co SA bought the ship and renamed it Med Star .

Incidents

On July 7, 2003, a fire broke out on board, which the ship's crew was able to extinguish quickly.

On August 9, 2016, a fire broke out on board due to an electrical fault in the port of Tripoli. The ship was then scrapped in Aliaga from March 2017.

Web links

Commons : Med Star  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• M / S Lemnos.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Passenger Ro-Ro ship Med Star caught fire in Port of Tripoli , Maritime Herald, August 14, 2016.
2. ↑ Türkiye ile Lübnan arası çalışan Med Star adlı Ro-Pax cayır cayır yandı , Ulaştırma, August 12, 2016.
3. ↑ MED STAR - IMO 7392531. Accessed September 21, 2017 .