Ro/Ro Aegean Fantasy

Ro/Ro AEGEAN FANTASY

Photo © Apostolos Kaknis, Perama, 30/04/07 #6918

Ship	Aegean Fantasy (2007)	Building Spec.	Smith’s Dock Co. Ltd, South Bank, Middlesbrough, England, 1978 – N°1338
Call Sign	J8B3539	IMO Number	7700049
GRT	10.919	DWT	6.985
Dimensions	147,17 x 22,53 x 6,88	Engines	2 Pielstick 12PC2.5V, 10.740 kW
Speed	18 knots	Passengers	12
Beds	12	Cars
Lane Metres	1.440	Sister ships	Cabot Jaqueline (Scrapped in 2004)
Registry Port	Kingstown	Flag	St. Vincent & Grenadines
Former Names/Own.	Cicero – Ellerman Wilson Line 1978-94 Chartered to Tor Line* 1979* Cicero – Oceanex 1994-06
New Names/Owners	Chartered to Co.Ma.Nav.* 2007*à
Line

This is the first of a three ro/ro series built by Smith’s Dock of Middlesbrough, England. The first two vessels, respectively named “Cicero” and “Cavallo”, were built for Ellerman Wilson Line, an English company engaged in Great Britain – Scandinavia traffic in cooperation with Fred. Olsen; the third sister, the “Jacqueline”, was delivered some years after the first pair, in 1983, being nowadays already scrapped; this happened at Alang in 2004, after nine years of lay-up at Rio de Janeiro. Even if I don’t know many particulars about Jacqueline’s history, nor I know many things about our “Cavallo”; anyway I suppose that she should have been in Canadian service for some years before her purchase by Oceanex, happened in 1994. For the Canadian company she was engaged between Montreal and St. John’s, at Newfoundland, mainly carrying containers which were loaded by crane on her weather deck; it is curious to notice that her sister “Cavallo” was lenghtened by about 25 metres in 1996, while the same work was not carried on the “Cicero”. Sold in December 2006 to Aegean Cargo, she left Montreal for Greece on 2006 Christmas Day, arriving at Piraeus on 6^th January 2007, for the Epiphany; after being repainted in Aegean Cargo’s colours, being also the first vessel to carry the new Aegean Cargo logo on her funnels, she started sailing between France and Morocco on charter.