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Photo © Michele Lulurgas, Piraeus, 31/03/10 #10092

Ship	Speedrunner IV (2009)	Building Spec.	Fincantieri, Riva Trigoso, Italy, 1999 – N° 6004
Call Sign	SVAF2	IMO Number	9141883
GRT	4.662	DWT	340
Dimensions	100 x 17,1 x 2,75	Engines	4 Ruston 20RK270 MkII, 27.500 kW
Speed	38 knots	Passengers	808
Seats	808	Cars	170
Garage	80 lane metres (?)	Sister Ships	Almudaina Dos Hellenic Highspeed Speedrunner III
Registry Port	Piraeus	Flag	Greece
Former Names/Own.	Superseacat Four – Hoverspeed (Seacontainers) 1999-04/2000 Superseacat Four – Silja Line 04/2000-05/2006 Superseacat Four – Seacontainers 05/2006-01/2008 Superseacat Four – Aegean Speed Lines 01/2008-05/2009
New Names/Owners	Superrunner – Golden Star Ferries 11/2016
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Last delivered vessel of a four monohull serie ordered by Seacontainers to Fincantieri Riva Trigoso yards, after the cancellation of the option for two more ferries of that kind, was launched as the “Superseacat Four”, and immediately laid up for almost a year at La Spezia, her home port, due to the abortion of Seacontainers plans to deploy her on Brindisi – Cesme line via Corinth canal. When she re-emerged from the lay-up in Italy, she became a mainstay of fast ferry connections between Finnish and Estonian capitals, the popular Helsinki – Tallinn line, where she faced the 24 hours mini-cruises of Baltic-owned cruise-ferries offering herself as a fast and practical alternative. During her nine seasons in Baltic services, she wore for six years the Silja Line – Superseacat livery, matching the commercial name of Seacontainers’s fast ferry operations with those of Baltic cruise-ferries part of Seacontainers group; for the following two seasons, after the divorce between Seacontainers and Silja Line, the “Superseacat Four” operated only under Superseacat livery, and in the last year of service she had the Aegean Speed Lines’s logo painted on her funnels, after the sale of Superseacat Finland OY from the British parent company to the former Greek partners. On 2009 the ferry finally left Poland for Greece; it was very strange anyway that the annual refit and repainting was carried out there instead of Greece, where usually the Greek companies are based. It was obvious that the new name chosen for this vessel were “Speedrunner IV”, less obvious was the change of livery, abandoning the nice sky blue of the company for white. After being deployed for her first Greek year on Piraeus – Folegandros – Sikinos – Ios – Santorini line, on 2010, after a little change in her livery’s colours, was deployed on Aegean Speed Lines’s main service, from Piraeus to Serifos, Sifnos, Folegandros, Kimolos and Milos. In 2013 was laid up at Elefsina bay, due to the reduction on Company’s services, but for 2014 summer was “resurrected” to serve the Piraeus – Paros – Naxos line, omitting to serve the other three destinations usually connected by this service, Syros, Tinos and Mykonos; from 2015, instead, was redeployed again on Milos line. Even if there aren’t big differences between two sister vessels of this type, as far as I saw from the virtual tours, I prefer the internal arrangement and furnishings of this vessel, rather than those of “Speedrunner III”. At the end of 2016 season , was surprisingly sold to Golden Star Ferries and renamed “Superrunner”.

Photo Gallery

Riva Trigoso, 1999	Muggiano, 31/07/1999
From Fincantieri Website	Carlo Martinelli

HOVERSPEED – Superseacat Four (1999)

Helsinki, 2000	Helsinki, 25/06/2006
Aleksi Lindström	Eero Isotalo

SILJA LINE SUPERSEACAT – Superseacat Four (2000-2006)

Tallinn, 11/07/2007	Tallinn, 11/07/2007
Kimmo Rantanen	Kimmo Rantanen

SUPERSEACAT – Superseacat Four (2006-2007)

Helsinki, 02/08/2008	Gulf of Finland, 28/09/2008
Wil Weijsters	Kimmo Rantanen

AEGEAN SPEED LINES – Superseacat Four (2008)

Piraeus, 31/03/2010

Michele Lulurgas

AEGEAN SPEED LINES – Speedrunner IV (2009-2010)

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AEGEAN SPEED LINES – Speedrunner IV (2010-2016)

Rafina, 02/09/2017	Rafina, 25/04/2018
Michele Lulurgas	Michele Lulurgas

GOLDEN STAR FERRIES – Superrunner (2017)

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