F/B Kamiros - Piraeus

F/B KAMIROS

Photo by courtesy of Micke Asklander

Ship	Kamiros (1980) ΚΑΜΙΡΟΣ	Building Spec.	1966 at Wartsila Crichton Vulcan, Turku, Finland N° 1133
Call Sign		IMO Number	6604470
GRT	8.687	DWT	1.808
Dimensions	134,32 x 19,94 x 5,71	Engines	2 Wartsila-Sulzer 8c, 10.298 kW
Speed	20 knots	Passengers	1.200
Beds	520	Cars	247
Lane Metres	468	Sister Ships	Freewinds Noura I Princesa Marissa
Registry Port	Rhodes	Flag	Greece
Former Owners	Lion Ferry 1966-69 Prinzen Line 1969-70 CGTM 1970-80	Former Names	Prins Hamlet 1966-69 Prinz Hamlet 1969-70 Roussillon 1970-80
New Owners	Ascot Seatrade 1997-01 Anez Shipping 2001 Scrapped in Turkey 2002	New Names	Thessaloniki 1997-01 Queen Calliope 2001-02
Line

Third of a family composed by four sister ships, of which only two serving for the same owner, started the Lion Ferry service the 14 May 1966 from Bremerhaven to Harwich, cruising to Recife from Lisboa in winter time. In the following two years was on a link Halmstads - Copenhagen, then in 1969 was sold to Prinzen Line, which used her between Hamburg and Harwich. She came in Mediterranean sea in 1970, bought by Compagnie Generale Transmediterraneenne for the lines Marseille - Corse and Marseille - Tunisia. In 1980 was named “Kamiros” atfter the purchase by Dodekanissiaki Anonimi Naftiki Etareia, best known as DANE Sea Line, to be employed from Piraeus to Patmos, Leros, Kalymnos, Kos and Rhodes, four times a-week (Monday at 14.00, Wednesday at 13.00, Friday at 12.00 and Sunday at 10.00 only to Kalymnos). I travelled aboard her from Piraeus to Patmos on September 1993: she was a good ship; however lacking the facilities of a Greek cruise-ferry; particularly the first class lounge was very impressive, other spaces, including the cabin and outside decks, was little wretched. In 1997, after the “Leros” purchase, the first ship of Dane Sea Line was sold to Ascot Seatrade Corporation for the line Brindisi - Igoumenitsa - Patras, served only for a year before of three years laying up at Eleusis. In 2001 was renamed “Queen Calliope”, then, in 2002 sold for scrap.

LION FERRY F/B Prins Hamlet photo by courtesy of Micke Asklander

PRINZEN LINE F/B Prinz Hamlet photo by courtesy of Micke Asklander

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSMEDITERRANEENNE F/B Roussillon photo CGTM, by courtesy of Xavier Maillard

Official DANE SEA LINE postcard

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