F/B AF Claudia Prima

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Photo © Erald Spahiu, Durres, 08/08/12 #12544

Ship	AF Claudia Prima (2012)	Building Spec.	Hayashikane Shipbuilding & Engineering, Shimonoseki, Japan, 1973 – N° 1167
Call Sign	ICTE	IMO Number	7302342
GRT	15.039	DWT	2.923
Dimensions	140,27 x 22,41 x 5,5	Engines	2 Mitsubishi-MAN 9V9 40/54 10.591 kW
Speed	21,5 knots	Passengers	1.100
Beds	850 in 232 cabins	Cars	365
Lane Metres	650	Sister Ships	Morning Shine (Scrapped in China, 2011) Sea Trail (Scrapped at Alang, 2003) St. Ezekiel Moreno (Scrapped in Bangladesh, 2007)
Registry Port	Naples	Flag	Italy
Former Names/Own.	Orion – Taiyo Ferry 1973-80 Chartered to Fuji* Ferry 1978* Ferry Nishiki Maru – Kansai Kisen 1980-84 Orion – Meimon Taiyo Ferry 1984-89 View of Nagasaki – Glory Shipping 1989 Daedalus – Minoan Lines 1989-99 Daedalus – Minoan Flying Dolphins 1999-02 Chartered to Minoan Lines* 1999-02* Daedalus – Minoan Lines 2002-05 Riviera Adriatica – Adria Ferries 2005-11 Chartered to Algerie* Ferries 05/2006-10/2006* Chartered to Algerie* Ferries 04/2007-10/2007* Chartered to Algerie* Ferries 04/2008-10/2008*
New Names/Own.	Caribbean Galaxy – Atlantic Blue Seaways 05/2016-12/2018 Scrapped at Aliaga (Turkey) 12/2018
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The “AF Claudia Prima” was born in Japan in 1973, first of four sister vessels, which were far similar to another class of two former ships built at the same yard, the Hayashikane of Shimonoseki, an hystorical site of Japanese shipbuilding industry. Her career in Japan lasts sixteen years, and sixteen years is also her Greek spell of life, entirely under Minoan Lines’s colours, even if the ferry was deployed only in 1991, after two years of refit which transformed her in one of the most interesting Greek cruise-ferries. For a short spell the ferry was also owned by Minoan Flying Dolphins, even if only for financial reasons; in fact the ferry was continuously operated by Minoan Lines. Employed with great success on domestic routes on her last Minoan period, the notice of her sale to Adria Ferries in May 2005 was far surprisingly, and her final delivery was on October 28^th. After having spent eleven years under the name “Riviera Adriatica”, mainly serving Bari – Durres line, on January 2012 the ferry was introduced into the Italian Shipping Registry, under the new name “AF Claudia Prima”; her main service remained anyway the Bari – Durres line, where, since 2012, is part of a two-ferry service, having the former “Domiziana”, now named “AF Francesca” as fleet-mate. In 2012, the “AF Claudia Prima” founds as competitor the “Lato” of Anek Lines, which was an opponent also during her Minoan Lines days operating from Greece to Ancona. After four seasons of service under that name mainly on Bari – Durres line, during Spring 2016 was sold to foreign interests, renamed “Caribbean Galaxy” and repainted with a new livery, displaying the colours of a new company named Atlantic Blue Seaways. Original plans were probably for a deployment of the vessel between Cartagena, Colombia, and Panama, but in early May 2016 Grimaldi Lines announced the charter of the “Caribbean Galaxy” for the Leghorn – Barcelona – Tangier line on Summer. Later, anyway the company announced that the ferry was lacking the required certificates, so the charter won’t happen. Initially waiting to start these services in Lavrion anchorage, the “Caribbean Galaxy” moved then to Perama, where she awaited her last sailing to Aliaga, in December 2018.

TAIYO FERRY F/B Orion – Photo taken from the book “History of Japanese Car Ferries”

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KANSAI KISEN F/B Ferry Nishiki Maru – Photo from Pieter Inpijn’s collection

Taiyo 1984 Osaka

KANSAI KISEN F/B Ferry Nishiki Maru – Photo by courtesy of Murase, Osaka, 1984

MEIMON TAIYO FERRY F/B Orion – Photo taken from the book “History of Japanese Car Ferries”

MINOAN LINES F/B Daedalus – Photo © Greecefinikunda, Igoumenitsa #818

MINOAN LINES F/B Daedalus – Photo © Egidio Ferrighi, Venice #1558

MINOAN LINES F/B Daedalus – Photo © Nikos Thrylos, Mykonos, 07/09/03 #1520

ALGERIE FERRIES F/B Riviera Adriatica – Photo © Julien Imbert, Marseille, 22/06/06 #6078

ALGERIE FERRIES F/B Riviera Adriatica – Photo © Julien Imbert, Marseille, 22/06/06 #6077

ADRIA FERRIES F/B Riviera Adriatica – Photo © George Giannakis, Ancona, 12/12/2006 #5286

ADRIA FERRIES F/B Riviera Adriatica – Photo © Michele Lulurgas, Ancona, 13/01/07 #5791

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