Neptune (ship, 1955)
 The Neptune off Dover
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The Neptune was a cruise ship of the Greek Epirotiki Lines , which was put into service in 1955 as a meteor for the Norwegian Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab . The ship remained in service until 1994 and was scrapped in Turkey in 2002 after several years of berth .
history
The Meteor was built under construction number 104 in Aalborg Værft in Aalborg and launched on May 6, 1954. After the takeover by Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab on January 14, 1955, the ship was used on January 22nd on the Hurtigruten and for cruises in the Norwegian fjords.
Since 1958 the Meteor was used exclusively for cruises. In the winter months in the Mediterranean as well as in the Caribbean and in the summer months off Norway. After another twelve years in service, the ship went to the newly founded shipping company Meteor Cruises based in Bergen in 1970 .
On May 22, 1971, a fire on board Meteor broke out in the Strait of Georgia during a cruise from Vancouver to Alaska . 32 crew members were killed. The burned-out ship was then declared a total loss. Nevertheless, it found a new owner in the Greek Epirotiki Lines, who renamed it Neptune and had it towed to Greece for repairs in November 1971.
In April 1972 the Neptune could be put back into service. From then on, the ship was used for cruises in the Mediterranean and the North Sea . The Neptune was more than twenty years for Epirotiki momentum before they retired in 1994 and in Eleusis launched was.
After eight years of berth, the ship was sold for scrapping and arrived on March 2, 2002 at the demolition yard in Aliağa, Turkey .