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Sailing on the Daleela from Limassol to Piraeus
In October 2001 Salamis Lines? Salamis Star made her final ferry crossing between Piraeus in Greece and Limassol in Cyprus, bringing an end to almost a quarter century of car…
A voyage on the Express Olympia (ex-Viking 4, Earl Granville) in 2003
Back in 2003 the ferry routes from Piraeus to the islands of the Aegean remained largely in the hands of second hand tonnage from northern Europe and Japan. Car carrying…
2018 in images. Part 2 ? Southern Europe
The second part of the 2018 photo review, this time favourite images taken in Southern Europe during the year.
Twilight of the Hengist
Panagia Tinou (most recently Agios Georgios, originally the Hengist of 1972). Half sunk in Piraeus harbour, July 2016.
Things seen – October 2011
The Villandry is captured on Youtube in the 1960s in these timeless home movie reels – she is seen at Newhaven here and here and at Dieppe here. The ship…
Piraeus – signs of the times
Piraeus, the city whose vast harbour serves as the port of Athens is, arguably, the greatest port in the world. To the enthusiast, the vast array of passenger ships of…
Greece in November: the abandoned ships of Piraeus
A trip to the Greek islands hadn’t been part of the plan for 2010 – with interesting and untested ships to sail on across the rest of Southern Europe together…
Things Seen – April 2010
During the 1960s DFDS commissioned three remarkable little ro-ro ships specifically to handle the bacon trade from Denmark into the English port of Grimsby. The Somerset, Stafford and Surrey carried…
Funnels: Agios Georgios (ex-Hengist)
Agios Georgios. Click for larger image.
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