Top: The Anthi Marina, Milena and Dimitroula laid up in Piraeus outer harbour.
DIMITROULA €1,277,000
ANTHI MARINA €2,128,000
ROMILDA €979,000
MILENA €957,000
MARINA €1,309,000
RODANTHI €1,383,000
DALIANA €957,500
One wonders which shipboard delights make the Daliana €500 more valuable than her sister the Milena. Truthfully, I doubt many will miss most of these ships all of which were fairly grim clunkers at the very bottom of the market by the time GA Ferries finally gave up the ghost. The Dimitroula, whilst not an exception to that comment, was perhaps the most interesting, retaining many of her pocket Italian liner stylings through her Greek career. The fast craft Jetferry I, tucked up in the inner harbour adjacent to the berths of the smaller Blue Star ships, has already been repossessed by her secured creditors so is excluded from the list.
There are some slightly haunting videos of the ships in the outer harbour, creaking and groaning at their berths here and here.
The same set of videos also features a close up consideration of the Mediterranean Sky, once of Karageorgis Lines and before that Ellerman’s City of York but now a sunken, rusting hulk in a corner of Elefsis Bay.
Meanwhile, near to the end of her operational days, life on board a Christmassy Romilda was captured by a nautilia user with the highly commendable name of ‘vortigern’.

Meanwhile, this series of videos shows Tsawwassen terminal and the Queen of New Westminster being pounded by wet & wild weather in 2007.



Part One
Part Two
Part Three

The East Yorkshire version of the BBC’s Look North carried a decent segment on her demise (no longer available on iplayer but a related news item is here); the Hull Daily Mail predictably missed the story altogether.
‘Save Our Senlac’
On board the strikebound Earl Harold
Refloating the Hengist

(h/t Brodovi i pomorstvo)
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Excellent update as always, interesting to see the fate of the GA Ferries fleet. Glad I made a trip to Greece a couple of years back to travel on them before the companies demise. I’ll have a look for some Euros down the back of the sofa, see if I can scrape up enough to save Romilda.
I should perhaps also confess to being a contributor on that irreverant car forum you linked to!
Thanks for ‘the Weymouth version’ – I really enjoyed watching that, and the cars being moved.
I also enjoyed your recent link to the creaking of the GA ships in Piraeus – is it still to be found?
i would like to congratulateyou on the fine pictures of the ferries.gone are the days of “ro ro’s” when i used to travel to spain ,now we use passenger ferries,and i have to say the accomodation is alot better, will check back soon ,
thanks
How come the Anthia Marina is in such poor condition? She was a lovely boat when P&O had her on Dover/Calais until 2003.I travelled on her a lot. Do the Greeks know how to look after boats? Any pictures of the interior available?