ABOUT THIS SITE

This site is optimized for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and was realized with Microsoft Office Word, as long as I don’t know nothing about HTML and so on, please sorry if you find some little troubles in the site. However, if you find some problems please contact me at my address mlulurgas@gmail.com in order to solve every difficulty you could find. As long as my little PC knowledge allows, you can’t save the photos on your PC, this because of my intention to respect the copyright of the photo’s author; however if you send me a mail I can send directly the photos requested to your mailbox, this only if the photos you want are for personal use; if the photo you want is mine, you can also publish it on a website, but this only if my name is shown as the author of the photo and if the website where the photo is published is totally no-profit. My policy about the photos is to publish more and better shots, this means that sometimes the photos you can find on the site have big dimensions to have a good quality standard, so the loading of the photo could take some more time than the standards, especially if you have a slow internet connection. Sometimes you could find the same ship under different names and different companies because she had served these operators in different times: the pages you could find will be very similar one to another, but each one is focused on the service period for the present company: for example, the “Ionian Island” of Strintzis Lines and the “Blue Island” of Blue Star Ferries are the same ship, but on Strintzis Lines page you’ll find many notices about her period as “Ionian Island” and mainly the photos of that time; as “Blue Island” instead the comments are mainly about her service with Blue Star Ferries. About the Register, when you choose a name of a Ship you’ll be linked to that ship’s page; if a name of a ship is related to a period before or after her Greek service you’ll be linked to the more closer Greek service page if the name is earlier of her Greek days, and to the last Greek service if the name is after her sale by a Greek company. Thanking you for your attention and excusing-me for my poor English, I’m hoping that you’ll like this site; however, although is always possible to improve ourselves, I would like very much to receive your contributes, opinions and advices!!!

CREDITS

Here I would like to thank all the friends who contributed to the realization of the site, although few words could not thank enough:

First of all myself, Michele Lulurgas: I’m the webmaster and the author of comments and informations and of the worst photos of the site. I had the opportunity to sail to Greece many times in these years, travelling aboard or visiting a lot of ships as Karageorgis (although I don’t remember them!!!), Ionian Star ’76, Ionian Sun, Ionian Galaxy, Ionian Island, Ionion, Rethimnon, Lato, Kamiros, Nissos Kalymnos, Rodos, El. Venizelos, Ionian Star ’94, Superfast I, II, III, IV, Aretousa, Rodanthi, Express Olympia, Ikarus, Pasiphae, Superferry Hellas, Blue Star 1, Europa Palace, Fantastic, La Suprema, Aries, Excelsior, Nomentana, Mega Express Three, Splendid, Superfast VI, Aegean Sun, Olympia Palace, Moby Aki, Victory, Janas, Giraglia, Moby Baby, Aurelia, Hellenic Spirit, Ionian King, Nissos Mykonos, Highspeed 5, Lissos, Eptanisos, Ionian Queen, Anthi Marina, La Superba, Snav Sardegna, Moby Drea, Ariadne Palace, Superfast V, Mytilene, Theofilos, Ionian Sky, Diagoras, Blue Star Paros, Superfast XI, Pascal Paoli, Mega Express Four, Sardinia Regina, Excellent, Raffaele Rubattino, Superferry II, Penelope A, Ikarus Palace, Oglasa, Moby Lally, Split 1700, Dubrovnik, Marko Polo, Ancona, Sophocles V., Nissos Chios, Jean Nicoli. There are nothing, opposite to the lucky friends who can travel on 4/5 different ships on every holiday, but I think that is a good fleet anyway!

Then the Scandinavian friends Aleksi Lindstrom, Kimmo Rantanen, Ingmar Svensson, Harry Janhunen and Micke Asklander with their websites: in particular, Micke’s website is a sort of Shiplover’s Bible, and he was wery kind to allow me use his photos and the ones of his brother Peter Asklander; then we must remember Daniele Miglio, his splendid shots of Venice’s Canal Grande and all his vaste contributes; the splendid photos coming from Thyrrenian Sea of Davide Tognolini, Roberto Munaò, Marco Esposito, Gianpaolo Pesarini, Demetrio Neri, Marco Asaro, Massimo Barbetti, Osvaldo Giannella, Matteo Fasce, Gavino Luigi Marcia, Francesco Bassano, Seawolf, Julien Imbert, Xavier Maillard and Jullien Eric; the Greek friends Manos Petridis, Aris Bilatis and EFOPLISTIS magazine’s editorial staff, a very well realized monthly and very enjoyable to read (you must speak Greek however!); the first Albanian photographer of the site Erald Spahiu; the members of Shipfriends.gr Michael Chiou, Proud Ionian, Stathis Livieratos, Ilias Ikaria, Dinos Lemonis, Nikos Thrylos; another Hellenic friends, Apostolos Kaknis, Fotis Marinelis, Grigoris, which helped me to unveil the last mysteries about O.L.P.’s docks; Giovanni Pirodda from Trieste; we should not forget Georges Pop, a very kind friend; Brian Fisher, John Van Zijderveld, Nigel Thorntonn, Dave Medgett for their old Channel shots, particularly the latter one because of the permission to use the splendid photos of Roy Thorntonn; many compliments to the great photographers Emilio Barenghi, Pieter Inpijn, Dominik Wagner, Daniele Alletto, Maurizio Gadda, Gunnar Menzer, Kurt Warth, Chris Jones; a big thank to Pacific Ocean for Tsuyoshi Ishiyama, Katsuyuki Ookubo and Murase, the author of the most exhaustive website about Japanese ships, a real pleasure for anyone, as me, who admires ferries from the land of Rising Sun; a special thank to Stefanos Antoniadis, which has always the right photo at the right moment; another special thank to my friend Gabriele Campoccio, which is very kind telling me many secrets of ferries; then I want to remember also Alessandro Bertolini, Claudio Manzini, Matteo Gasparoni, Bernard Fontanelle, Bert Pellgrom, Alessandro Orfanu’ from Bari and Ilaria Scognamillo, a real power in rearranging photos; the fantastic collection of Fleet File Rotterdam and his splendid comment about Superfast HDW family of ships, Frank Lose, Kostas Sotiriadis, Wayne Murray, Antonis Lazaris, J.Y. Freeman, Glenn Towler, Marko Stampehl, the Belgian websites of Vincent Deley and Oostend Ferry Page, Per Jensen, Richard Sahlsten, the recent contributes of Sebastiaan Toufekoulas, Lucas Latreche, Gordon Wise, Ted Blank, George Giannakis, a great photographer which I discovered also as a “neighbour”, the photos coming from Canada by Stephen Ings.

Although it seems obvious, I want also to say that the above friends are not written in any importance order: in my opinion also a one-photo contribute is precious and well accepted, so do not hesitate sending me any photo, I want to enlarge the above list!

It’s not my policy to publish an author’s photo without the permission: if this was happened for any reason I sincerely apologize and, if the owner of the photo wants, I’ll immediately write his/her name near the photo; if he/she don’t allow me to publish the photo I’ll immediately remove it.

Then, a true thank coming from my heart and a special dedication to Gino Margheri and Luciano Cassigoli, about them I can say only that: YOU’RE THE BEST!

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