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F/B PALOMA

ARKADIA LINES FB Paloma

Photo by courtesy of magazine EFOPLISTIS

Ship	Paloma (1990)	Building Spec.	Uddevallavarvet AB, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1968 – N° 280
Call Sign		IMO Number	6800402
GRT	7.708	DWT	955
Dimensions	115,7 x 18,02 x 4,75	Engines	4 Pielstick 12PV400, 8.210 kW
Speed	18 knots	Passengers	1.400
Beds	424	Cars	175
Lane Metres	255	Sister ships
Registry Port	Piraeus	Flag	Greece
Former Names/Own.	Drottningen – Statens Järnvägar (Swedish Railways) 04/1968-05/1977 Chartered to Birka* Line 06/1973-09/1973* Chartered to Silja* Line 04/1975-10/1975* Chartered to PKP Poland* 10/1975-04/1976* Chartered to Stena Line* 06/1976-08/1976* Alzahraa – Federal Arab Maritime 05/1977-1984 Ionian Victory – Strintzis Lines 1984-1986 Paloma – Afroessa Lines 1986-1990
New Names/Owners	Jin Hu – Shiantou Shipping 06/1993-03/2005 Scrapped at (China) as “Jin Hu” in March 2005
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An old trainferry in service between Trelleborg and the German ports of Travemunde (West Germany) and Sassnitz ( East Germany). On August 31^st, 1968, just few months after her delivery, she collided near Travemunde with the East German war ship “Willi Büntsch”, which broke in two parts and sank, causing the death of seven marines. From 1971 she changed her service several times, chartered to many different operators: in 1971 was on Stockholm – Nadendal line until 1973, when was chartered to Birka Line, first between Stockholm, Helsinki and Leningrad, then between the Swedish capital and Aland (Mariehamn). In 1974 was for little time on her original service Trelleborg – Germany, in 1975 again chartered to Sessanlinjen and then to Silja Line for the service Stockholm/Norrtalje – Mariehamn – Turku. Before of her purchase by Federal Arab Maritime (1977) was on charter to Stena Line (Goteborg – Kiel) and PKP (Ystad – Swinoujscie). Renamed “Al Zahraa” was used often as a cruiseship, until her purchase by Strintzis Lines in January 1984. Although she was employed between Italy and Greece (Ancona – Corfu – Igoumenitsa – Patras) the ship was registered in Limassol. The service in the blue fleet was long only two years: in 1986 was replaced by “Ionian Sun” and sold to “Afroessa Lines”, where she reencountered another trainferry originally in service between Sweden and RDT, the “Sassnitz”. The two ships had also a similar name: the first one “Paloma”, the second one “Silver Paloma”. At that time the ship was also refitted with a swimming pool and the increasement of superstructure at stern. Connecting Piraeus with Limassol and Haifa via Tinos – Heraklion – Rhodes, the ship flied maltese flag until 1990, when Afroessa Lines was purchased by Arkadia Lines and the ferry was Greek-flagged. Only for a while on Greece – Cyprus – Israel, was put on the new line Patras – Igoumenitsa – Corfu – Bari. On winter 1992 was laid up waiting for an acquirent, finded only in June 1993, when she was purchased by the Chinese company Shantou Shipping and named “Jin Hu”. For her Chinese owner, she sailed out of Hong Kong to China; in 2005 was scrapped.

SWEDISH RAILWAYS F/B Drottningen – Photo by courtesy of Micke Asklander

FEDERAL ARAB MARITIME F/B Al Zahraa – Photo by courtesy of Micke Asklander

STRINTZIS LINES F/B Ionian Victory – Photo by courtesy of magazine EFOPLISTIS

STRINTZIS LINES F/B Ionian Victory – Official Strintzis Lines postcard

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