Panagia Tinou
 Panagia Tinou wreck in the port of Piraeus, August 2016
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The Panagia Tinou was the last ferry used by the Greek Ventouris Sea Lines , which was commissioned in 1972 as a stallion for the British Sealink British Rail . The ship had been decommissioned in the port of Piraeus since autumn 2014 , where it was listed on April 26, 2016 after water ingress.
history
Service as a stallion
The Hengist was built under the hull number CF1 at Arsenal de la Marine National Francaise in Brest and launched on June 29, 1972. The handover to Sealink British Rail took place on June 6th. After a three-hour test drive on June 7, 1972 and the transfer trip to Dover on June 9, the ship was put into service on June 16 on the route from Folkestone to Boulogne-sur-Mer . The Hengist but ran during their period of service for Sealink British Rail and the ports of Calais , Ostend , Dover, Fishguard and Rosslare to.
On January 10, 1980, the Hengist collided with the Canabal car transporter off Calais , causing both ships to be slightly damaged. In April 1983 the ferry was also temporarily canceled due to a small engine room fire. A more serious incident occurred on April 24, 1987, when the Hengist collided with a French fishing trawler during a turning maneuver in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer , on which three crew members were killed. A few months later, the ship hit the headlines again when it was driven to the coast of Folkestone during a storm and ran aground. The ship was badly damaged and could not be put back into service until January 1988.
In 1985 the Hengist was modernized and slightly rebuilt, including removing the dock at the stern of the ship. Further modernizations took place in 1986 at Swan Hunter in Wallsend and in 1989 in Bremerhaven .
In April 1990, Stena Line bought the Hengist and from January 1991 began using it under the new name Stena Hengist on its old route from Folkestone to Boulogne-sur-Mer. After a short service on the routes from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire and Stranraer to Larne , the ship was sold again.
Service in Greece
The Greek shipping company GA Ferries became the new owner of the Stena Hengist in March 1992 . The new home port of the ship, now renamed Romilda , was Piraeus, from where it was used on various routes. In April 1993, it moved as Apollo Express 2 for Ventouris Sea Lines, but the shipping company had in October 1995 because of financial difficulties placed be.
In October the Apollo Express 2 went to Agapitos Lines, which it operated as Panagia Ekatontapiliani on the route from Piraeus via Paros , Naxos and Ios to Santorini . Between 1999 and 2001 the ship was in service as Express Artemis before it was renamed Panagia Ekatontapiliani again.
In February 2004, the former owner Ventouris Sea Lines bought the ship back and renamed it Agios Georgios . Until 2005, the Agios Georgios remained on the route to Santorini, which it already operated for the Agapitos Lines. The ship was then used for the next six years via Kythnos to Serifos , Sifnos , Kimolos and Milos .
On August 3, 2011, the Agios Georgios was launched in Drapetsona after several safety deficiencies were discovered and she lost her operating license as a passenger ship . In September it was put back into service.
In autumn 2014, the Agios Georgios was set due to unpaid wages of the crew and later launched. In January 2015 the ship was renamed Panagia Tinou and towed to Piraeus. Panagia Odigitria Shipping was the new owner. A renewed commissioning was not realized due to financial difficulties of the operator.
Water ingress in Piraeus
On the morning of April 26, 2016, the Panagia Tinou began to list after water ingress and remained in this position without sinking completely. The ferries anchored in the vicinity of the ship had to move to other berths on the day of the accident for safety reasons.
The salvage work on the wreck of the Panagia Tinou began on January 23, 2017 . At the beginning of February 2017 the Panagia Tinou could be erected again. On March 23, 2017, the ship arrived in Aliağa for demolition.
Sister ships
The Panagia Tinou had two sister ships, the Horsa and the Senlac, also put into service in 1972. While the Senlac was scrapped as Apollon in Turkey in 2010 , the Horsa remained in service as Penelope A until 2013 and has been lying in front of Eleusis ever since .
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)
- the history of the ship on doverferryphotosforums.co.uk (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matt Leclere: Panagia Tinou sinking: Greek ferry and former Folkestone to Boulogne ship famously beached after the Great Storm in 1987. April 26, 2016, accessed on 26 April 2016 .
- ↑ Unbelievable! Docked Ferry-Boat is sinking inside the port of Piraeus (pics, video). April 26, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Πειραιάς: Σε τρεις μήνες απομακρύνεται από το λιμάνι το ημιβυθισμένο «Παναγία Τήνου». January 23, 2017. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
- ↑ «Μπήκαμε» στο «Παναγία Τήνου»: Έτοιμο για το τελευταίο του ταξίδι. February 10, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .