Media V
 As Viking I in the colors of Townsend Thoresen
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The Media V was a ferry of the Cypriot Ionian Sky Ferries , which entered service in 1964 as Viking I for the British shipping company Thoresen Car Ferries . In its 41 years of service, the ship was in service under several owners and names in the North Sea and the Mediterranean . In 2008, the Media V in Turkey was scrapped after being retired three years earlier.
history
The Viking I was laid down in Kaldnes Mekaniske Verksted in Tønsberg in October 1963 and launched on January 31, 1964. On April 29, 1964 the delivery to Thoresen Car Ferries took place. On May 6, 1964, the Viking I was put into service on the route from Southampton to Cherbourg .
In 1968 Thoresen Car Ferries merged with Townsend Brothers Ferries to form the new shipping company Townsend Thoresen . The Viking I was like all the ships of Thoresen into the possession of the new operator, but remained on its old route going.
From October to December 1969 the Finnish Silja Line chartered the ship for the route from Stockholm via Mariehamn to Åbo . After the charter expired, Townsend Thoresen used it from Dover to Zeebrugge .
After work in the shipyard in Bergen , the Viking I started sailing from Southampton to Le Havre in April 1970 . In October 1970 shipyard work took place again in Gothenburg .
In October 1973 the TT-Line chartered the ship for the service from Travemünde to Trelleborg before it returned to Townsend Thoresen in April 1974. After another charter to Lion Ferry in February 1975, the Viking I switched to the route from Felixstowe to Zeebrugge in April 1975 .
In September 1976 the ship went to the Finnish Stena Line as the Viking Victory and was henceforth used from Portsmouth to Le Havre. In June 1977 Le Havre was replaced by Cherbourg as the port of arrival.
From September to October 1977 the Viking Victory served as a hotel ship in the port of Southampton . In the following years she was chartered out several times and used on different routes in the North Sea before she was retired in September 1981 and offered for sale.
In 1983 the ship went to Euphoria Navigation, based in Limassol, as Sun Boat . From then on, it sailed from the new home port of Piraeus to Rhodes , Limassol, Beirut and Latakia . In April 1985 the Sun Boat was sold again and renamed Caravan in order to be used for the Red Sea Line from Aqaba via Jedda to Suez .
After a year in service, the ship changed hands again in April 1986, who had it renamed Vasmed . However, it did not get going under this name, but was instead sold to Sharo Shipping in the same year and used as a Sunny Boat on the route on which it was already in use for Euphoria Navigation.
In July 1990 the Sunny Boat went to European Seaways as European Glory to be used from Patras to Igoumenitsa , Corfu and Brindisi . In September 1991 the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines bought the ship and renamed it Neptuna . However, this did not change anything about the route. In 1992 the shipping company changed the name of the ship to Media II .
After another ten years in service for the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, the Media II was sold in March 2002 and commissioned as Media V for Palmier Ferries from Brindisi to Corfu, Paxi and Igoumenitsa in June . Later she was also driven from Brindisi to Vlora and from Bari to Durrës before she was arrested in Durrës in May 2005.
In 2007, the new owner Ionian Sky Ferries planned to put the ship back into service. Although the Media V was already painted in the colors of the shipping company and carried the Ionian Sky Ferries logo, it came to Eleusis in the same year to continue to be launched there.
In March 2008 the Media V was sold to Turkey for scrapping. On May 7th she arrived in Aliağa under the name Edi , where she was dismantled from May 14th.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- History of the ship on doverferryphotosforums.co.uk (English)