The ship was built at the Italian shipyard Cantali Navali Visentini. The construction contract was signed on December 14, 2001. The keel was laid on April 3, 2002. The new building was delivered on June 16, 2003. The ship, part of the extensive Visentini class , to which the Norman Atlantic also belongs, was initially launched as the Eurostar Valencia . The ship is a sister ship of the Catania built as Eurostar Salerno . Both ships form the P205 series.
The ship had been sailing for Grimaldi since it was built. In 2006 the ferry was renamed Sorrento . In 2015 she was chartered to the Spanish shipping company Acciona-Trasmediterranea.
Average 2015
The Sorrento at the demolition in Aliaga
On April 28, 2015, a fire broke out on deck 4 of the Sorrento , which operated on the Palma de Mallorca - Valencia route, around 17 nautical miles from the coast of Mallorca. The Spanish SAR organization Salvamento Marítimo dispatched several ships of its own, including the emergency tugs Marta Mata , SAR Mesana and the SAR boat Salvamar Acrux, to the accident site and ordered the two nearby RoRo ferries Puglia (also a ship of the Grimaldi Lines , which is chartered to a Spanish shipping company) and Visemar One (a sister ship of the Sorrento from the P-271 series) to the damaged vessel. The captain decided to evacuate the ship as the crew failed to contain the fire. All 157 passengers and 42 of the 45 crew members (17 Italians and 38 Spaniards) were transferred to Puglia in lifeboats . Three crew members who had suffered smoke inhalation were rescued with a helicopter that was also dispatched. The damaged ship was towed into the port of Sagunto at a speed of around three knots by a commercial tug , accompanied by the emergency tug Clara Campoamor des Salvamento Maritimo , where it arrived on May 7, 2015. It had previously been prepared for importation by specialists from Smit Salvage . In March 2016, the ship called Rento arrived in Aliağa for demolition.
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