F/B Eolos - Piraeus

F/B EOLOS

Postcard from Pieter Inpijn’s collection

Ship	Eolos (1981)	Building Spec.	1962 at Hanseatiche, Hamburg, Germany N° 20
Call Sign		IMO Number	5142267
GRT	4.375	DWT	1.628
Dimensions	96 x 15,88 x 4,47	Engines	2 Nohab Polar, 4.239 kW
Speed	18 knots	Passengers	750
Beds	259	Cars	125
Lane Metres		Sister Ships
Registry Port	Piraeus	Flag	Greek
Former Owners	Merivienti Oy (Finnlines) 1962-67 Polferries 1967-81	Former Names	Hansa Express 1962-66 Finndana 1966-67 Gryf 1966-81
New Owners	A.K. Ventouris 1995-98 Clydesdale Shipping 1998-03 Sold for scrap to Turkey 2003	New names	Agios Vassilios 1995-03 Agi 2003
Line

Before of her purchase by Fragline in 1981 for linking Patras to Brindisi via Corfu and Igoumenitsa, the “Eolos” had served all over the Baltic Sea. From 1962 to 1967 was on Finnlines services Hango - Visby/Slite - Travemunde and Helsinki - Copenhagen, first named “Hansa Express” then “Finndana”. After being chartered to TT Line in 1966 was purchased by the polish company Polferries which names her “Gryf”. First emp,loyed on Ystad - Swinoujscie line, was then moved to Gdansk – Helsinki service. When she was purchased by Fragline her hull was painted of blue, as her first running-mate “Georgios”: after her no more Fragline ship would have this hull colour. I remember her always on Brindisi - Corfu - Igoumenitsa line, with “Ouranos” serving on Patras line: probably she served the Patras line before of Ouranos arrival in the fleet. In 1995 was sold to A.K. Ventouris as “Agia Methodia” on the lines Italy - Greece from Brindisi and Patras. After some years of lay up in Eleusis, was sold in 1998 to Clydesdale; with her last company was for a very short period in service in Black Sea; in 1999 spring Artemis Lines planned to charter her, but she remained laid-up at Elefsis under arrest of the bank because of financial problems of her owners, then in summer 2003 she sailed for her last trip to Aliaga beach, where she was scrapped.

FINNLINES F/B Hansa Express - Photo by courtesy of Micke Asklander

FINNLINES F/B Hansa Express - Photo by courtesy of Peter Asklander

POLFERRIES F/B Gryf - Photo by courtesy of Micke Asklander

Photo © Fleet File Rotterdam

A.K. VENTOURIS F/B Agios Vassilios - Photo from Pieter Inpijn’s collection

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