F/B BARONESS m

Photo © Fleet File Rotterdam

Ship	Baroness M (1985)	Building Spec.	1967 at Cammell Laird, UK, N° 1326
Call Sign		IMO Number	6723654
GRT	6.280	DWT	1.412
Dimensions	111,1 x 17,76 x 4,24	Engines	2 Crossley – Pielstick, 7.993 kW
Speed	21 knots	Passengers	1.200
Beds	476 in 89 cabins	Cars	250
Lane Metres	250	Sister Ships
Registry Port	Limassol	Flag	Cyprus
Former Owners	P&O Normandy Ferries 1967-85	Former Names	Lion 1968-85 Portelet 1985
New Owners	Baroness M Ferries 1997-04 Scrapped in Bangladesh 2004	New Names	Adinda Lestari 101 2002-04
Line

Third ship of Marlines, was bought in 1985 after P&O Normandy Ferries service as “Lion” and another service as “Portelet”. The following year was launched on Ancona - Patras - Heraklion - Turkey line caling in Izmir, Kusadasi or Marmaris, serving these links together with the bigger “Queen M”. In 1990 was for a short time on Piraeus - Cyprus - Israel line, a link never successful for Marlines, nor until 1996 when was resumed and plyed by “Countess M”. In that period was shooted by a Syrian gunboat without reporting a significant damage. Due to sail from Ancona also in 1991 together with “Duchess M”, was instead substituted by the newly bought “Crown M” and started serving on the new line Brindisi - Corfu - Igoumenitsa - Patras. In 1992 and 1993 was on the same service, except for short periods of service to Ancona and regularly calling to Ithaca in 1992 summer. In 1994 Marlines was one of the first companies which understood the importance of a direct link between southern Italy and Cesme, so they diverted the “Baroness M” on Bari - Igoumenitsa - Patras - Cesme line, but later was put on Ancona Line, substituted on Bari - Cesme by the “Viscountess M”. In 1995 was refitted with higher funnels, entirely blue-painted (they were only half painted before), then put between Bari, Corfu and Igoumenitsa until 1997, when she was sold to a Carribbean company, mantaining her name. Deployed in Indonesia, in 2002 was renamed “Adinda Lestari 101” and then laid up waiting for a buyer, the, after two years of lay up was sold for scrap to Chittagong in Bangladesh. As “Adinda Lestari 101” had a very bad appearance; surely Marlines didn’t had a great care to their ships, but seeing the old “Baroness” in that state is very sad…

F/B Lion, photo by courtesy of Micke Asklander

NORMANDY FERRIES F/B Lion photo from Pieter Inpijn’s collection

P&O FERRIES F/B Lion photo from Pieter Inpijn’s collection

BARONESS M FERRIES F/B Adinda Lestari 101

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