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F/B Via Tirreno

Photo © Carlo Martinelli, Genoa, 2004 #22719

Ship	Via Tirreno (2001)	Building spec.	Van der Giessen – De Noord, Krimpen, Holland, 1993 – N°959
Call Sign	ICVT	IMO Number	9019078
GRT	14.398	DWT	5.535
Dimensions	150,43 x 23,43 x 6,02	Engines	2 Zgoda-Sulzer, 11.529 kW
Speed	19,5 knots	Passengers	100
Beds	100 in 25 cabins	Cars
Lane meters	1.850	Sister ships	Amal Beniamino Carnevale Copernicus Denia Ciutat Creativa Drujba Marco Polo
Registry port.	Palermo	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own	Via Tirreno – Viamare (Finmare) 1992-96 Via Tirreno – Tirrenia Navigazione 1996-01
New Names/Owners	Via Tirreno – Tirrenia Navigazione divisione Adriatica 2004-05/2006 Galileusz – Unity Line 05/2006
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Third ferry among the series of five ordered by Finmare, being part of the four committed to the Dutch yards (the fifth was ordered to Fincantieri Palermo), was intended to launch the new “Motorways of the Seas” project which was the mission of the newly established Viamare company. Delivered in 1993 as the “Via Tirreno”, she was one of the two ferries, the other being the “Via Adriatico”, which remained in the green livery of the company throughout its life, which ended in 1996, when Viamare was closed and all its ferries and services were transferred to Tirrenia; from that year, the “Via Tirreno” maintained her link from Voltri (later switched to Genoa main port) to Termini Imerese, close to Palermo. In 2001, the Genoa – Termini Imerese link was transferred to Adriatica, which already operated, with two other sisters, the second “Motorway of the Seas”, those from Ravenna to Catania; the “Via Tirreno” and the “Via Adriatico” changed their ownership, joining the Venice-based company, but having her funnel without the distinctive St. Mark’s Lion, which was the trade mark of Adriatica. The career of this pair of vessels under Adriatica ownership, was anyway very fleeting, as long as the Venetian company was incorporated by Tirrenia in 2004, and soon the “Via Tirreno” took again the Tirrenia livery. The second spell of her career for Tirrenia, was anyway likewise fleeting, as long as the company, still under State control, decided to sell her to Unity Line of Poland, which took delivery of the vessel on May 2006. The vessel, being renamed “Galieusz”, probably influenced by Galileo Galilei, was deployed between Swinoujscie and Trelleborg after a small refit which extended the passenger decks till midships, raising up the passenger capacity, and altering also the starboard ramp, probably needed to fit an harbour linkspan, as long as the same alteration was made to her sisters which joined her later in Baltic Sea, the “Copernicus” for Unity Line and the “Marco Polo” for the German company TT Line.

Photo Gallery

Voltri, 1993	Genoa, May 1994
Carlo Martinelli	Carlo Martinelli

VIAMARE – Via Tirreno (1993-1996)

Genoa

Commis

TIRRENIA NAVIGAZIONE – Via Tirreno (1996-2001)

Genoa, 25/08/2003	Genoa, 16/10/2004
Carlo Martinelli	Carlo Martinelli

ADRIATICA – Via Tirreno (2001-2004)

Caralis, 02/09/2005	Caralis, 02/09/2005
Osvaldo Giannella	Osvaldo Giannella

TIRRENIA NAVIGAZIONE DIVISIONE ADRIATICA – Via Tirreno (2004-2006)

Swinoujscie, 01/12/2006	Swinoujscie, 01/12/2006
Adam Wozniczka	Adam Wozniczka

UNITY LINE – Galileusz (2006)

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