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F/B Domiziana

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Photo © Davide Tognolini #1201

 

Ship

Domiziana (2003)

Building Spec.

Fincantieri yards, Castellammare di Stabia, Italy, 1979 – N° 4347

Call Sign

ITNA

IMO Number

7602089

GRT

12.575

DWT

3.250

Dimensions

147,99 x 25, 4 x 6,1

Engines

2 Fincantieri-GMT A420 16V. 14.120 kW

Speed

20,5 knots

Passengers

2.000

Beds

568

Cars

645

Lane Metres

850

Sister Ships

Amanah

Aurelia

Clodia († Alang 2013)

Flaminia († Alang 2013)

Nomentana († Alang 2013)

Registry Port

Naples

Flag

Italian

Former Names/Own.

Domiziana – Tirrenia Navigazione 1979-03

New Names/Own.

Domiziana – Tirrenia Navigazione divisione Adriatica 06/2004-06/2011

Domiziana – Adria Ferries 06/2011-11/2011

AF Francesca – Adria Ferries 11/2011à

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Built for Tirrenia in 1979, was lengthened by 12 metres in 1986 by Fincantieri yards of Trieste: the ferry was literally cut at midship and a section if 12 metres was added, so the overall length raised from 136 metres to 148 and the passenger capacity raised until the present figure of 2.000. Originally part of “Strada” class, was then one of the six sisters built in Castellammare di Stabia yard, but in 2002 the “Aurelia”, “Clodia” and “Nomentana” were upgraded to meet the standards of Tirrenia newbuildings entered in service since 1999, so the “Domiziana” remained a full sister only to “Flaminia” and “Emilia”. At one side, this is a good thing, because the transformed ferries of Strada class have a very heavy appearance; on the other side however the “Flaminia” was considered the worst ferry inspected in Europe when the German ADAC carried its annual safety inspection among ferries sailing in Baltic, North Sea, Irish Sea, Channel, Western and Eastern Mediterranean sea, and probably the “Domiziana” was on the same level of her sister sailing from Civitavecchia to Olbia. After having spent her career mainly between Genoa and Porto Torres in Sardinia, on 2003 the “rich cousin” of Naples gave the “Domiziana” like a charity to Venice-based company and, confirming that for Italian Minister of Finances the Adriatica is son of a minor God, the ferry sails from Bari to Durres in full Tirrenia livery, creating in traveller’s minds the doubt to have not studied well Geography some years before or to have joined a wrong boarding port. Not a ship who attracts the eye for her beauty, her internal spaces don’t improve very much my impression, after having seen a few shots; especially the seats seems to  have been stolen from a 2nd class train. If we think that when in 1960 Adriatica linked Italy and Greece, the PiraeusCrete link was covered by the “Heraklion”, “anek” seemed to be a bad word in a strange language and “minoan” was only a fabulous period of Greek history…

 

Photo Gallery

 

domiziana_1979_1 peter

From Peter Asklander’s collection

By courtesy of Micke Asklander

 

TIRRENIA – Domiziana (1979-1986)

 

 

Caralis

Egidio Ferrighi

 

TIRRENIA – Domiziana (1986-2003)

 

Bari, 24/08/2005

Bari, 31/05/2006

Alessandro Orfanù

Michele Lulurgas

 

TIRRENIA DIVISIONE ADRIATICA – Domiziana (2005-2011)

 

 

Bari, 07/07/2012

Durres, 08/08/2012

Michele Lulurgas

Erald Spahiu

 

ADRIA FERRIES – AF Francesca (2011-2015)

 

Bari, 29/08/2017

Bari, 29/08/2017

Michele Lulurgas

Michele Lulurgas

 

ADRIA FERRIES – AF Francesca (2015à)

 

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