{"id":5535,"date":"2015-12-20T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T13:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2020-11-01T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T16:34:34","slug":"up-close-banasa-ex-mette-mols-to-become-moby-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/?p=5535","title":{"rendered":"Up close: Banasa (ex-Mette Mols, to become Moby Kiss)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Built 1975 at Helsingor as Mette Mols for Mols Linien&#8217;s Ebeltoft-Odden route.<br \/>\nSold 1996 to Comarit and renamed Banasa for Tangier-Algeciras service.<br \/>\nRe-engined and refitted in 2003\/04.<br \/>\nLaid up in Algeciras, Spain, early 2012 following the bankruptcy of her owners.<br \/>\nTowed for scrapping at Aliaga, Turkey, August 2015.<br \/>\nTowed from Aliaga to Perama, Greece, October 2015 following acquisition by European Seaways.<br \/>\nRenamed Galaxy but subsequently re-sold to Moby Lines.<br \/>\nTo become Moby Kiss for Livorno-Bastia service.<\/p>\n<p>Photographed March 2014, abandoned on Algeciras breakwater.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5539\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9740_1-188_TN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9740_1-188_TN-485x340.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"IMG_9740_1 188_TN\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5539\" width=\"485\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9740_1-188_TN-485x340.jpg 485w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9740_1-188_TN-162x113.jpg 162w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9740_1-188_TN.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5540\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9742_1-189_TN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9742_1-189_TN-485x309.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"IMG_9742_1 189_TN\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5540\" width=\"485\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9742_1-189_TN-485x309.jpg 485w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9742_1-189_TN-162x103.jpg 162w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9742_1-189_TN.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5541\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9744-190_TN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9744-190_TN-266x400.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"IMG_9744 190_TN\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5541\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9744-190_TN-266x400.jpg 266w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9744-190_TN-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9744-190_TN.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5542\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption 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aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5554\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9727-180_TN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9727-180_TN-485x323.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"IMG_9727 180_TN\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5554\" width=\"485\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9727-180_TN-485x323.jpg 485w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9727-180_TN-162x108.jpg 162w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_9727-180_TN.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built 1975 at Helsingor as Mette Mols for Mols Linien&#8217;s Ebeltoft-Odden route. Sold 1996 to Comarit and renamed Banasa for Tangier-Algeciras service. Re-engined and refitted in 2003\/04. Laid up in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[643,103,114,336,875,497,32,876,569],"class_list":["post-5535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-up-close","tag-banasa","tag-comanav","tag-comarit","tag-european-seaways","tag-galaxy","tag-mette-mols","tag-moby","tag-moby-kiss","tag-mols-linien","wpcat-607-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6658,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions\/6658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}