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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@hotmail.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.
The
first person I want to thank for all the work which is behind these web pages
is my father Dimitrios Lulurgas, to which all this work is devoted, as long as in my opinion, the best
way to remember a beloved person is to dedicate him something that makes you
feel good. Having been born in Florence, I don’t think I would ever
became a shiplover, as long as between all the
beauties of my city, the sea and a port, are missing: these deficiencies were
supplied from my Greek father, which gave me the occasion to travel between
Italy and Greece since I was a little child and, moreover, collaborated in his
life with many shipping companies (moreover Strintzis
Lines, Anek Lines and Marlines, and later also
Superfast Ferries), so I remember tons of shipping brochures in my childhood,
which were a sort of spark that ignited the “shipping” flame in my
life. I don’t know what my father thought about this passion, but surely
he was the one which took me to the Port of Piraeus the first time I visited it
in my life, he was the one which took me the first time to the Neo Molo of Drapetsona in my life, a place that was my first
destination in Piraeus area every time I travelled there, until the access to
the quay was deniened to the public. Surely, wherever
my dad is now, he knows that I should thank him for one of the things I love
most in my life, and since today, everyone which enters the home page of the
site, can remember my beloved dad.
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, Superfast VI, Superfast XII, Cruise Europa, Cruise Olympia, Lefka Ori, Prevelis, Ariadne, Kriti II, Visentzos Kornaros, Ionian Queen, Europalink, Coraggio, Euroferry
Olympia, Audacia, Silja Festival, Superfast
II, Nissos Rodos, Blue Star Patmos, Forza, Bari, Fior di Levante, Mare di Levante, Mega Andrea, Mega
Express, Pascal
Lota, Rigel I, Kerkyra Express, Theologos P, Superferry, Asterion, Blue Star Delos, Elyros, Asterion II, Knossos Palace, Festos Palace, Prince, Moby Niki, Stelio Montomoli, Corsica Express
Three, Corfu. 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, a special thanks to all the
contributors of the site:
Daniele Alletto |
Pedro Amaral |
Gena Anfimov |
Stefanos Antoniadis |
Marco Asaro |
Micke Asklander |
Peter Asklander |
Rossella Balaskas |
Massimo Barbetti |
Emilio Barenghi |
Marco Barsotti |
Francesco Bassano |
Alessandro Bertolini |
Aris Bilalis |
Ted Blank |
Fotios Brekas |
Giuseppe Boato |
Bodolinsky |
Gabriele Campoccio |
Captain Peter |
Michael Chiou |
Brian Crocker |
Douglas Cromby |
Ralph Dazert |
Rijn N. De Ruiter |
Vincent Deley |
Carsten Dettmer |
Dragan |
“Efoplistis” magazine |
Jullien Eric |
Marco Esposito |
Matteo Fasce |
Egidio Ferrighi |
Peter J. Fitzpatrick |
Brian Fisher |
Fleet File Rotterdam |
Bernard Fontanelle |
Frank Först |
J.Y. Freeman |
Maurizio Gadda |
Andrea Galliano |
Tony Garner |
Matteo Gasparoni |
George Giannakis |
Osvaldo Giannella |
Godra |
Gordy |
Smulick Goronzola |
Greecefinikunda |
Manuel Hernández |
Tore Hettervik |
Chris Howell |
Muhsen Hussein |
Ilias Ikaria |
Julien Imbert |
Ted Ingham |
Stephen Ings |
Pieter Inpijn |
Eero Isotalo |
Tsuyoshi Ishiyama |
Harry Janhunen |
Per Jensen |
Chris Jones |
Apostolos Kaknis |
Karolos |
Markus Klausnitzer |
Vladimir Knyaz |
George Kobeos |
Wolfgang Kramer |
Lucas Latreche |
Antonis Lazaris |
Dinos Lemonis |
Aleksi Lindstrom |
Stathis Livieratos |
Peter Longhurst |
Frank Lose |
Xavier Maillard |
Claudio Manzini |
Alberto Marchesi |
Gavino Luigi Marcia |
Fotis Marinelis |
Mark1955 |
Carlo Martinelli |
Jim Mc Faul |
Allan Mears |
Dave Medgett |
Gunnar Menzer |
Giorgos Mertis |
Daniele Miglio |
Antonios Molos |
Paul Morgan |
Dennis Mortimer |
Jeff Mortimer |
Roberto Munaò |
Murase |
Wayne Murray |
Demetrio Neri |
Miguel Nóia |
John O’Neill |
Frits Olinga |
Katsuyuki Ookubo |
Oostend Ferry Page |
Alessandro Orfanu’ |
Martin Palardy |
Bert Pellgrom |
Yvon Perchoc |
Gianpaolo Pesarini |
Manos Petridis |
Giovanni Pirodda |
Georges Pop |
Proud Ionian |
Kimmo Rantanen |
Hans Rosenkranz |
Richard Sahlsten |
Derek Sands |
Hans Schaefer |
Sebastian Schaffer |
Bob Scott |
Seawolf |
Michael Segeth |
Joerg Seyler |
ships@tin.it |
Ken Smith |
Ray Smith |
Robert J. Smith |
Kostas Sotiriadis |
Erald Spahiu |
Marko Stampehl |
Urs Steiner |
Oleg Sushkov |
Ingmar Svensson |
Nigel Thorntonn |
Roy Thorntonn |
Nikos Thrylos |
Davide Tognolini |
Sebastiaan Toufekoulas |
Glenn Towler |
Frans Truyens |
Evangelos S. Tzardis |
Panagiotis Vlachos |
Vovashap |
Dominik Wagner |
Jochen Wegener |
Wil Weijsters |
Gordon Wise |
José Paiva Wolff |
John Van Zijderveld |
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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!