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Ship	Riviera Adriatica (2005)	Building Spec.	Hayashikane Shipbuilding & Engineering, Shimonoseki, Japan, 1973 – N° 1167
Call Sign	3ECH4 (à09/2011)	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	Panama (à09/2011) Limassol (10/2011à)	Flag	Panama (à09/2011) Cyprus (10/2011à)
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
New Names/Own.	Chartered to Algerie Ferries* 05/2006-10/2006* Chartered to Algerie Ferries* 04/2007-10/2007* Chartered to Algerie Ferries* 04/2008-10/2008* AF Claudia Prima – Adria Ferries 01/2012-05/2016 Caribbean Galaxy – Atlantic Blue Seaways 05/2016-12/2018 Scrapped at Aliaga (Turkey) 12/2018
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The “Riviera Adriatica” 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. When she was bought rumours indicated her on a new route from Ancona to Croatia (probably Split), but the mechanical problems of her fleet mate forced her deployment on Ancona – Durres route. When the “Riviera del Conero” came back to service the ferry was chartered to Algerie Ferries, the Algerian State-owned ferry company, to operate from Marseille and Alicante to Alger and Oran. After having been chartered also for 2007 and 2008 Summer season to Algerie Ferries, on December 2008 the ship started a new Bari – Durres service. On October 2011 she was switched to Cyprus flag; later, on January 2012, she changes again her flag, this time to Italy, and changes also her name to “AF Claudia Prima”. After four years, was sold to Greek interests and renamed “Caribbean Galaxy”; despite the change of livery, wasn’t never deployed in any service and was sold for scrap in Turkey after two and half years of lay-up.