Tag: brindisi
Thoughts on the loss of the Euroferry Olympia
Early in the morning of Friday 18th February, about ten miles north of Corfu and 25 miles west of Albania, a fire broke out on the vehicle deck of Grimaldi…
Remembering the Egnatia III
Hellenic Mediterranean Lines were probably the most famous Greek ferry company, well-known initially for fairly exotic liner service and latterly for decades of transporting backpackers on Inter-rail tickets from Italy…
Picture of the week: Ionian Spirit
Ionian Spirit (ex-Viking 3, Wasa Express, Roslagen) arriving at Brindisi. Previous image
Blast from the past: Appia
The Appia of 1961 was the first car ferry of the Italian state-controlled operator Adriatica. She joined the equally new Greek (Hellenic Mediterranean Lines)-owned Egnatia on a ground-breaking joint service…
Farewell Doric Ferry, Kapetan Alexandros
Quietly, the Kapetan Alexandros A ex-Doric Ferry, last of the ships of the Atlantic Steam Navigation Company, left her lay up in Keratsini under tow of the tug Christos XIV…
Kapetan Alexandros A (ex-Doric Ferry) – an update
Perhaps I spoke too soon with the comment in the previous post that it seemed the Kapetan Alexandros A was coming around to Brindisi for a further Summer! Agoudimos have…
Last of the line: the Kapetan Alexandros A (ex-Doric Ferry)
The six purpose-built ships of the Atlantic Steam Navigation Company were completed at British shipyards between 1957 and 1968 for ASN’s North Sea and Irish Sea operations and all had…
Gone but not forgotten: Gabrielle (ex-Prinsessan Desiree, 1965)
From time to time I’ll dig out some older pictures from classic ferries which are no longer with us, having been scrapped – or worse. No. 1 is an interesting…
The Southern Adriatic – a new Golden Age?
Michele Lulurgas’ epic 20-year trek through the ferries of the Adriatic highlights what in many ways can be seen as the sad decline of the area’s ferry operations as an…
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