El. Venizelos (ship)
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El. Venizelos in the port of Souda, Greece in 2018
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Greece | |
Name | El. Venizelos |
Namesake | Eleftherios Venizelos |
Owner | ANEK Lines, Chania, Greece |
Operator | ANEK Lines |
Port of registry | Chania, Greece |
Route | Piraeus - Souda |
Ordered | 1979 |
Builder | Stocznia im. Komuny Paryskiej, Gdynia, Poland (hull) |
Yard number | B494 / 3 |
Launched | 28 October 1984 |
Completed | 1992 at Perama, Piraeus, Greece. |
Maiden voyage | June 1992 |
In service | 1992 |
Identification | Call sign 5BYX4
IMO: 7907673 MMSI: 209262000[1] |
Status | in service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ro-pax ferry |
Tonnage | 38,261 gt Summer DWT: 5351 t[1] |
Length | 175.5 m (576 ft) |
Beam | 28.5 m (94 ft) |
Height | 6.7 m (22 ft) |
Draught | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
Ramps | Two for vehicles one for passengers. |
Speed | 22 knots |
The MS El. Venizelos is a
History
1979–1999
The vessel was ordered by Stena Line AB in 1979. This ship was the third of four gigantic vessels for Stena Line made in Poland and was going to be named Stena Polonica. The construction was delayed but by 28 October 1984 she was launched. However, in 1986, Stena Line cancelled its delivery because none of the equipment for the interior was produced, as well as because of several long delays.
Her early name was Kydon II after the company's first ship, but she was eventually renamed to her current name of Eleftherios Venizelos. She was delivered in June 1992 and deployed between
2000s
For summer 2003, ANEK agreed an advertising deal with
In 2010, she served on the
Date | Event |
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2011 02 26 | Arrived at Heraklion with 2923 passengers on board, departed the same day to Misurata. |
2011 03 02 | Arrived at Heraklion. |
2011 03 03 | Departed from Heraklion towards Souda. |
2011 03 06 - 2011 03 08 | Departed from Souda towards Misurata. |
2011 03 09 - 2011 03 11 | Departed from Misurata towards Alexandria with 2088 passengers on board. |
2011 03 11 | Departed from Alexandria towards Sirte. |
2011 03 16 | Laid on the rescue to Sirte for two days, then returned to Souda where the ship was laid up. |
She arrived on Piraeus on 8 May. Between 16 and 22 May she was deployed between Piraeus-Chania before chartering to Tunisia. Afterwards, she was laid up in Perama, until 4 June 2012. At this time, she returned to the Piraeus-Chania line for replacing Lato until 21 April 2013, when she was chartered. Between 27 and 28 January 2014, she was used as a floating hotel in Argostoli, after an earthquake that had occurred. By 1 March she was laid up in Perama, before chartering in GoSardinia in July. During 2 to 15 September, she returned to Chania - Piraeus and then laid up in Salamina. Since 2017, she operates the Piraeus-Souda line again.
Cruises
Because of her size, ANEK Lines often preserved the ship for cruises.
- 2003 10 21 - 2003 11 02. Between Chania - Piraeus - Thessaloniki - Istanbul - Odesa - Yalta - Trabzon - Thessaloniki - Piraeus - Chania.
- 2004 10 27 - 2004 11 09. Between Piraeus - Chania - Port Said - Alexandria - Benghazi - Tripoli - Gabes - Malta - Chania - Piraeus.
- 2005 02 01 - 2005 02 08. For Venice Carnival, between Patras - Igoumenitsa - Corfu - Venice and back.
- 2005 10 26 - 2005 11 07. Between Piraeus - Chania - Palermo - Cagliari - Ajaccio - Nice - Civitavecchia - Naples - Chania - Piraeus.
- 2006 02 21 - 2006 02 28. Between Patras - Igoumenitsa - Corfu - Venice, for carnival of Venice.
- 2006 11 05 - 2006 11 18. Between Piraeus - Chania - Tripoli - Tunis - Malaga - Mallorca - Naples - Chania - Piraeus.
Charters
The ship was often leased to other companies, mainly outside of Greece.
- July 2001: To Italian authorities. Used as a hotel ship during the G8 meeting in Genoa, Italy for a week.
- June 2004: To Cotunav, Tunisia. Left Piraeus on 17 June and deployed on Tunis - Genoa / Marseille. She was chartered to this company each summer until 2011.
- May 2013: To . Her charter ended abruptly during the same year, after a poor performance throughout the season on the line and the ship returned to Greece by September
- July 2014: To GoInSardinia. Left Piraeus on 11 July and deployed between Livorno - Olbia / Arbatax. This charter did not go well either.
- 14 August 2015: To Greek authorities and used as a floating hotel in Kos for refugees from Syria. By 19 August she was deployed between Mytilene - Piraeus for transporting refugees.
- June 2016: To Tanger Med - Algeciras. The charter failed, as the ship was too large to operate on a line where travel time lasts only two hours.
2020 charting to Spain
In March 2020, she was chartered to a Turkish Company as a floating hotel for workers in
- 30 March: Ministry of Health of Greece announced 3 cases with COVID-19
- 31 March: Ministry of Health of Greece announced 20 cases with COVID-19
- 1 April: Ministry of Health of Greece announced 20 cases with COVID-19
- 2 April: Ministry of Health of Greece announced 119 cases with COVID-19
- 2 April: At 9 pm El. Venizelos moored at the Piraeus Port. The crew which don't have COVID-19 are going to be out and the foreigners will go to their countries but first they are going to put in a quarantine at a hotel. Now the 119 cases with the COVID-19 will remain to the ship at least 14 days more.
2018 fire incident
On 29 August 2018, after her departure from Piraeus, her garage was caught on fire. The ship was sailing 8 nm from Agios Georgios island, off Ydra. Over 1,000 people were on board, in addition to 80 trucks and 152 cars. The fire most likely began from a truck in the garage. The ship returned to Piraeus at 4.00 am as it. Passengers disembarked safely. In September the ship went to Perama for repairs and subsequently returned to service.[7]
Older liveries
During 2007–2013, the ship wore a blue-yellow diagonal stripe. it was also on her Tunisia Ferries charters. She also briefly wore an EU flag. During her usage for transporting refugees, she had a blue stripe.
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El Venizelos in Piraeus in 2007
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El Venizelos in Genova in 2011
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El Venizelos in Piraeus in 2013
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El. Venizelos in Piraeus in 2015
Route
El. Venizelos serves the ferry line Piraeus-Chania
References
- ^ a b "El. Venizelos in Marine Traffic". MarineTraffic.com.
- ^ "Το "αδερφάκι" του Ελ. Βενιζέλος, η αγορά από Κρητικό και το "άδοξο" τέλος". Newsbeast.gr (in Greek). 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ^ "M/S EL. VENIZELOS (1992)". www.faktaomfartyg.se. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ^ "ANEK Lines Ferries. ANEK Lines fleet". www.ferries.gr. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ^ a b "HHV Ferry: El Venizelos". www.hhvferry.com. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ^ "The ferry site". www.ferry-site.dk. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ^ Casualties | 29/08/18 (2018-08-29). "Greek passenger ship suffers fire while underway". SAFETY4SEA. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
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