Ro/Ro Buona Speranza

ro/ro buona speranza

Photo from Commis’s collection, Genova #6305

Ship	Buona Speranza (1985)	Building Spec.	Cantieri Navali Luigi Orlando, Leghorn. Italy, 1976 – N° 143
Call Sign	IBSN	Numero IMO	7413074
GRT	6.355	DWT	3.548
Dimensions	119,29 x 17,52 x 5,16	Engines	2 Fiat-GMT A300.218SS 6.620 kW
Speed	17 knots (top 20,7)	Passengers	12
Beds	12	Cars
Lane Metres	780	Sister Ships	Nuova Ventura
Registry Port	Venice	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own.	Buona Speranza – Lloyd Triestino 1976-85
New Names/Own.	Chartered to Società Italiana Cabotaggio* 06/1990-08/1990* Ro-Ro Elefsis – Anita Shipping Corp. 1994 Sea Sonata – Poseidon Lines 1995 Sea Symphony – Poseidon Lines 1995-2003 Chartered to Latlines* 2001-02* Tonia V – Nautica Sky 2002-04 Tonia V – Fast Eco Lines 2004-06 Scrapped at Alang in 2006 as “Tonia V”.
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After two ro/ros built for Adriatica, Orlando Yards of Leghorn starts to build two similar vessels, both Italian State-owned as Adriatica, but this stime for Lloyd Triestino. The first vessel of the pair was named ”Buona Speranza”, delivered in June 1976 and started stailing from Leghorn, Genoa, Marseille, Barcelona to Dakar, Abdijan, Lagos and Douala. She remained on that service until 1985, when was transferred to Adriatica after a brief period serving the Ministry of Defence for military operations in Lebanon. Under Adriatica colurs, the ship served the Eastern Mediterranean line (from Venice to Port Said, Beirut and Limassol) until June 1990, when she was bareboat chartered to Società Italiana Cabotaggio, a company half owned by Adriatica and half by private shipowners, to inaugurate a service that nowadays would have been called “motorways of the sea”, the Venice – Bari link. The service was suspended at the beginning of August 1990; the company announced that it would have been resumed on September 20^th, but the port operators of Bari and Venice are still waiting the ferries. The ship was then laid up for four years, with great respect for Italian taxpayers, when was finally sold to Greece as the “Ro-Ro Elefsis”. After only a year the ship passed under Poseidon Lines’s ownership, and the company decided to add passenger accommodations to the vessel; the “Sea Symphony” anyway is clearly recognisable as a “ro-pax”. Under Poseidon Lines’s ownership, was engaged on various services, mainly sailing from Bari to Corfu and Igoumenitsa, to Cesme, to Albania, being also employed on Piraeus – Cyprus – Israel line and chartered to Latlines for two years, serving the Riga – Lubeck link. After another sale was named “Tonia V” and sailed forst between Volos and Istanbul, then between Ravenna and Rijeka before being scrapped at Alang in 2006.

LLOYD TRIESTINO – Ro/Ro Buona Speranza – Photo from Commis’s collection #5970

POSEIDON LINES F/B Sea Symphony – Photo from Alessandro Orfanù’s collection #6357

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