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Ro/Ro Anglia Express
Photo © Paul
Morgan, Hull, 17/09/1978 #22644
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Ship
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Anglia Express (1976)
Charter 1976-78
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Building Spec.
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Hayashikane
Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.,
Shimonoseki,
Japan, 1976 – N° 1198
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Call Sign
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ITDV
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IMO Number
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7517600
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GRT
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6.779
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DWT
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4.412
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Dimensions
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147,61 x 22,84 x 6,6
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Engines
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1 Mitsubishi – MAN 16V52-55 4S,
11.768 kW
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Speed
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20 knots (22,4 max)
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Passengers
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12
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Beds
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12
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Cars
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45
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Lane Metres
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1.150
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Sister Ships
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Hellenic Carrier (scrapped in 2010)
Hellenic Trader (scrapped in 2013)
Italroro One (scrapped in 2011)
Italroro Two
(scrapped in 2011)
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Registry Port
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Venice
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Flag
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Italian
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Former Names/Own.
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Anglia Express – Società
Mototraghetti Mediterranea 1976-78
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New Names/Own.
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Sicilia – Tirrenia
Navigazione 01/1990-09/2006
Sicilia – Italroro
/ Puglia Navigazione 09/2006-2007
Italroro Three – Italroro
/ Puglia Navigazione 2007-06/2011
Scrapped at Aliaga, Turkey 07/2011
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Line
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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, sailing from Palermo to Genoa and, later, to La
Spezia, 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 employed on the routes to 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. After her
sale, was maintained for a while under the previous Tirrenia-name, and, in the
same time, rebuilt at Genoa
where the covering of the upper garage was removed in order to increase her
cargo capacity. Finally deployed on Bari – Mersin line, linking Italy
with South Anatolia, as the “Italroro Three”,
she stayed on her designated route until March 2007, when the company stopped
its services due to the overestimation of commercial traffic and the following
bad results, then entering the charter market. On October 2007 the ferry was
chartered to Co.Tu.Nav for Genoa – Rades link,
the following month was chartered for 6+6 months to Dimaiolines, which intended
to link Campania with Sardinia, sailing twice
a week from Napoli to Cagliari and once from Napoli to Olbia. During this period, she was also
reunited to some of her old Tirrenia-mates in some sailings from Naples to Caralis carrying garbage after the 2008 garbage
emergency happened in Naples
hinterland. At the end of Dimaiolines charter, the “Italroro Three” was again
offered for charters, even if at the end of 2008 the real aim of the owners was
to find a buyer for the vessels due to its financial difficulties. In November
2008 the “Italroro Three” was chartered for a Genoa
– Lagos sailing, carrying both brand-new Volvo
trucks and second-hand ones to Nigeria,
but once the ramp was closed, the ferry was arrested by Genoa Court for a 800.000 Euros debt of
Puglia di Navigazione. Volvo had to pay more money to get back the trucks, and
the ship’s crew had to survive aboard without money, getting some aid by other
seamen and from no-profit organizations like Stella Maris Seamen’s Club of
Genoa. At the beginning of 2009 OM Roroline, a Dutch company which intended to
establish a line between Toulon, Sousse and Tripolis, was close to define an
agreement to buy all the three Italroro ships; their photos appeared on
company’s website and also the new names intended for the ferries were
revealed, “Lenna” and “Noor”; anyway, the first amount announced for the sale,
20 Millions Euro, was not confirmed and an agreement was found for nearly 9
millions Euro. Anyway, Puglia di Navigazione and OM Roroline didn’t found an
agreement on some pending payments, and the sale was stopped. With all the
three sisters still laid-up, Bari
court, which now is responsible on the Company stated an auction for the sale
of the ferry on June 29th, with 3.620.000 Euros as starting price
for “Italroro Three”. After the failure of this auction, the ferry was newly
auctioned on October 26th, 2010, with a starting price of 2.896.000
Euro, finding again no buyers; this led the broker “Ferrando & Massone” to
establish a new auction with a starting price of 1.200.000 Euros for January 25th,
2011; finally on June 2011 the Turkish tug “Emre Omur” arrived in Genoa to tow
the ferry to her final destination, Aliaga.
Photo Gallery
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Suez, 25/05/1979
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Venice, 1981
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La Spezia, 15/02/1986
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Chris Howell
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Jeanburlon’s collection
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Carlo Martinelli
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ADRIATICA – Anglia Express (1976-1988)
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Genoa, 16/05/1989
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Carlo Martinelli
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TIRRENIA NAVIGAZIONE – Anglia Express (1989-1990)
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Genoa, 06/07/1992
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Genoa, 1997
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Carlo Martinelli
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Commis’s collection
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TIRRENIA NAVIGAZIONE – Sicilia (1990-2006)
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Genoa, 07/10/2009
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Genoa, 27/03/2010
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Michele Lulurgas
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Michele Lulurgas
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ITALRORO PUGLIA DI NAVIGAZIONE – Italroro Three (2007-2011)
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