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f/b Espresso Livorno
Photo from Commis’s
collection, Venice # 6300
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Ship |
Espresso Livorno (1976) Charter 1976-80 |
Building Spec. |
Cantieri Navali Luigi Orlando, Leghorn,
Italy, 1973 – N° 138 |
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Call Sign |
ICER |
IMO Number |
7224514 |
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GRT |
7.873 |
DWT |
2.283 |
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Dimensions |
125,5 x 18,5 x 5,2 |
Engines |
2
Fiat – GMT 14cyl, 10.297 kW |
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Speed |
21
knots |
Passengers |
835 |
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Beds |
432 |
Cars |
280 |
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Lane
Metres |
396 |
Sister
Ships |
Express Pegasus Venezia († Aliaga,
2010) |
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Registry Port |
Venice |
Flag |
Italian |
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Former Names/Own. |
Espresso Livorno – Trans
Tirreno Express 1973-76 |
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New Names/Own. |
Espresso Grecia – Adriatica
Navigazione 1980-99 Grecia – Halkydon Shipping 1999-10 Scrapped
at Aliaga on October 2010 as “Grecia”. |
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The “Espresso Livorno” was the first passenger vessel of the shipowner
Spiros Magliveras, which previously had a good
success as a freight operator. The ferry, delivered in 1973 by Orlando yards of
Leghorn, which had previously built all the freight vessels of the parent compant Traghetti del Mediterraneo,
was deployed on Leghorn – Olbia line. The service lasts only until 1976, when
the ship was chartered to Adriatica Navigazione of Venice. Even if the ferry maintained her
name, was repainted in Adriatica colours and deployed
on weekly sailings from Venice to Piraeus and then to Istanbul and Smirne or to
Limassol and Haifa, alternating the final part of the trip every week. In 1980
she passed to Adriatica, being renamed with the more
appropriate name of “Espresso Grecia” and deployed on Brindisi – Greece line
and later to Albania services, until her sale in 1999 to Halkydon
Shipping as “Grecia”. She was scrapped a decade later.
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Patras, 04/07/1988 |
Patras, 01/08/1989 |
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Frank Först |
Carsten Dettmer |
ADRIATICA – Espresso Grecia (1980-1999)
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Trieste,
29/09/2004 |
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Giovanni
Pirodda |
HALKYDON
SHIPPING – Grecia (1999-2010)