Ro/Ro Anglia Express

ro/ro anglia express

Photo from Jeanburlon’s collection, Venice, 1981 #6443

Ship	Anglia Express (1976) Charter 1976-78	Building Spec.	Hayashikane Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Shimonoseki, Japan, 1976 – N° 1198
Call Sign	ITDV	IMO Number	7517600
GRT	6.779	DWT	4.412
Dimensions	147,61 x 22,84 x 6,6	Engines	1 Mitsubishi – MAN 16V52-55 4S, 11.768 kW
Speed	20 knots (22,4 max)	Passengers	12
Beds	12	Cars	45
Lane Metres	1.150	Sister Ships	Cielo Trailer Italroro One Italroro Two Nave Trailer
Registry Port	Venice	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own.	Anglia Express – Società Mototraghetti Mediterranea 1976-78
New Names/Own.	Sicilia – Tirrenia Navigazione 1990-06 Sicilia – Italroro / Puglia Navigazione 2006-07 Italroro Three – Italroro / Puglia Navigazione 2007à
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The “Anglia Express” belongs to the family of three ro/ros built in Japan for Società Mototraghetti Mediterranea, which charters and soon sells the vessels to Adriatica Navigazione. The vessels are substantially sisters of two other ro/ros built by Hayashikane of Shimonoseki for Japanese Shipowners, being different only for the enclosed upper garage, which cuts away from the three “Italian” sisters 150 lane metres of available space for cargo. The ship starts her career on the Northern Europe line, connecting Leghorn, Genoa and Marseille with Hull, Felixstowe and Rotterdam; when the service was closed the “Anglia Express” was transferred to Middle East services, until 1984, when she was first chartered to Sitra, then usually employed on Thyrrenian services before of being sold to Tirrenia, in 1990, as their “Sicilia”. Under this name (even if the old one was still easily readable) was eomloyed on the route sto Sardinia and Sicily, but, before her en-bloc sale with her sisters to Puglia Navigazione in 2006, was used also on an Adriatic route, the Venice (Marghera) – Catania. Actually she is linking Bari with Mersin, in Turkey, strangely having changed her name some months after her sisters.

TIRRENIA NAVIGAZIONE Ro/Ro Sicilia – Photo from Commis’s collection, Genoa, 1997 #6451

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