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Photo from Matteo Fasce’s collection, Ancona

Ship	Tintoretto (1983)	Building spec.	Cantieri Navali Apuania, Marina di Carrara – Italy, 1966 – N° 82
Call Sign	ICJA	IMO Number	6615998
GRT	2.712	DWT	708
Dimensions	99,98 x 15,02 x 4,34	Engines	2 Fiat GMT 5c, 5.595 kW
Speed	18 knots	Passengers	860
Beds	368	Cars	150
Lane meters	216	Sister ships
Registry port.	Venice	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own	Jacopo Tintoretto – Linee Marittime dell’Adriatico 1966-80 Jacopo Tintoretto – Adriatica Navigazione 1980-83
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.

LINEE MARITTIME DELL’ADRIATICO F/B Jacopo Tintoretto – Photo from Commis’s collection #6466

ADRIATICA NAVIGAZIONE F/B Jacopo Tintoretto – Photo from Commis’s collection #6301

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