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F/B Tintoretto
Photo from Matteo Fasce’s collection, Ancona
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Ship |
Tintoretto (1983) |
Building spec. |
Cantieri Navali Apuania, Marina di Carrara – Italy, 1966 – N° 82 |
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Call Sign |
ICJA |
IMO Number |
6615998 |
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GRT |
2.712 |
DWT |
708 |
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Dimensions |
99,98 x 15,02 x 4,34 |
Engines |
2 Fiat GMT 5c, 5.595 kW |
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Speed |
18 knots |
Passengers |
860 |
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Beds |
368 |
Cars |
150 |
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Lane meters |
216 |
Sister ships |
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Registry port. |
Venice |
Flag |
Italian |
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Former Names/Own |
Jacopo
Tintoretto – Linee Marittime
dell’Adriatico 1966-80 Jacopo
Tintoretto – Adriatica Navigazione
1980-83 |
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New Names/Owners |
Tintoretto
– Marisud
1989-90 Sara
I – Baltic Sea Business 1990-93 Farah I – El Salam 1993-94 El Salam 93 – El Salam 1994-95 Farah I – El Salam 1995-96 Gurgen 2 – Gurgen Turizm
1996-02 Scrapped at Aliaga,
Turkey 2002 |
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Built by Apuania yards of Marina di Carrara,
Italy a yard which realized many excellent ro/paxes, started serving for “Linee
Marittime dell’Adriatico”,
a company belonging to the shipowner Lolli Ghetti, in
1966, connecting Italy and Jugoslavia. In 1980 the
company stopped its services and this ferry, like the fleet-mate “Tiziano”, was bought by Finmare
group to be transferred to Adriatica, the same of
what happened in 1975 to Si.Re.Na., the company of Lolli Ghetti
which stopped services selling all the ferries to Si.Re.Mar.,
another company of Finmare. Adriatica,
rerouted immediately the ferry on their Jugoslavian
services: first operated with her original name “Jacopo Tintoretto” and white
livery – sand brown funnel, in 1983 the ferry “loses her first name”,
maintaining only the surname “Tintoretto”, being also repainted with the new
sand-brown livery, which was dominating over all the ferries except for the “Egitto Express” of 1991, the last ferry carrying the white
livery. Being operated only on peak periods, she was linking mainly the port of
Bari, connecting it to the near Dubrovnik, even if being operated once a week
also on a particolar route, sailing from Dubrovnik to
Zadar and, surprisingly, to Rimini! In the 80’s the adriatic
resort, better known for its beaches and discotheques, was also a port of call
of the small “Tintoretto”, a service early abandoned probably due to the inhadequate facilities of the small port (in fact, with
worst atmospheric conditions the port of call switched to Ancona). The
adventure under Adriatica colours came to an end in
1988, probably due of the imminent delivery of two Fincantieri
sisters and the ferry, after a charter period to the “sister” Tirrenia for Naples – Caralis
line, was sold to Marisud, a company which linked
Naples with the two main Italian islands, Olbia in Sardinia and Palermo in
Sicily. After this short spell, also for this ferry came the period to taste
the Red Sea waters: in 1990 she started linking Suez and Jeddah, then Suez with
Aqaba, then she entered the “big family” El Salam as the “El Salam 93”. She
came out without damage from Red Sea in 1996 when, after being sold to Turkish
interests, started linking Trabzon in Turkey and Sochi, in Georgia as “Gurgen 2”. However the “Red Sea maledition” didn’t leave the ferry, which was caught by
fire in 2000 and sank soon after the departure from Trabzon. Refloated in 2002,
was towed to her final destination, Aliaga, for being
scrapped.
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Commis’s Collection |
LINEE MARITTIME DELL’ADRIATICO – Jacopo Tintoretto (1966-1980)
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Commis’s Collection |
ADRIATICA – Jacopo Tintoretto
(1980-1983)
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Venice, 1986 |
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Peter Longhurst |
ADRIATICA – Tintoretto (1980-1989)
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La Spezia, 19/06/1990 |
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Carlo Martinelli |
ADRIATICA – Jacopo Tintoretto (1980-1983)