F/B Naias II - Piraeus

F/B NAIAS II

Photo © Gunnar Menzer

Ship	Naias II (1989) ΝΑΙΑΣ II	Building Spec.	Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence, Port de Bouc, France, 1966 – N° 327
Call Sign	SXJV	IMO Number	6622616
GRT	4.555	DWT	1.099
Dimensions	115 x 18,1 x 4,36	Engines	2 De Bretagne – Pielstick 16PC2-V400, 10.944 kW
Speed	20,5 knots	Passengers	1.300
Beds	256	Cars	240
Lane Metres		Sister ships	Express Samina (sunk in 2000)
Registry Port	Piraeus	Flag	Greek
Former Names/Own.	Launched as “Provence” Comte de Nice – C.G.T. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique 1966-69 Comte de Nice – C.G.T.M. Compagnie Generale Transmediterraneenne 1969-76 Comte de Nice – S.N.C.M. Societe Nationale Corse Mediterranee 1976-83 Naias II – Kriton S.A. 1983-89
New Names/Owners	Express Naias – Minoan Flying Dolphins / Hellas Ferries 2000-01 Express Naias – Hellas Flying Dolphins / Hellas Ferries 2001-03 Scrapped at Aliaga (Turkey) in 2003 as “Express Naias”
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Was launched in 1966 as the “Provence”; anyway she entered service the same year as the “Comte de Nice”, living the three different ages of French State-owned companies alternating Nice – Corsica service with Marseille – Alger line. She arrived in Greece in 1983 as “Naias II” for the lines Piraeus – Syros – Tinos – Mykonos with Kriton brand, replacing the original “Naias”. Anyway the company didn’t survived very much the divorce from its original ferry, and ceased ferry services in 1989, selling the ferry and the operating licence to Agapitos Bros. The company, which had already bought “Naias II”’s original sister from Stability Maritime, failing to change the name of the ferry, decided to do the same with this one. Refitted in a different way as her sister was, has a great superstructure at stern, lacking on “Golden Vergina”, despite the two vessels have the same figure of GRT: this fact is probably due to the different internal arrangements. A never loved ship, in 2000 season travelled for Hellas Ferries, a Minoan Flying Dolphin brand, until October, when she was arrested for safety reasons and never rerouted, probably because of her sistership with “Express Samina”. Scrapped in early 2003 in Turkey, a latter opinion about her name “Naias II” painted under her bridge under Kriton ownership: horrible.

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE F/B Comte de Nice Photo from Xavier Maillard’s collection

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSMEDITERRANEE F/B Comte de Nice Photo from Xavier Maillard’s collection

SNCM F/B Comte de Nice Photo from Xavier Maillard’s collection

KRITON F/B Naias II – Photo © Fleet File Rotterdam

AGAPITOS BROS F/B Naias II – Photo from George Giannakis’s collection #6009

Photo © Antonios Lazaris #8190

H.F.D. HELLAS FERRIES F/B Express Naias – photo by courtesy of EFOPLISTIS magazine

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