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F/B KYKLADES

AGAPITOS BROS FB Kyklades 01_George Giannakis coll

Photo from George Giannakis’s collection #6007

 

Ship

Kyklades (1972)

ΚΥΚΛΑΔΕΣ

Building Spec.

United Shipping Yard,

Perama, Greece, 1972 – N°306

Call Sign

SXLA

IMO Number

7014581

GRT

1904

DWT

 

Dimensions

74,48 x 12,02 x 3,2

Engines

2 MAK 9c, 3.089 kW

Speed

17 knots

Passengers

852

Beds

 

Cars

52

Lane Metres

 

Sister ships

 

Registry Port

Piraeus

Flag

Greek

Former Names/Own.

 

New Names/Owners

Express EfvoikosAgapitos Express Ferries 1993-1994

MethodiaVentouris Sea Lines 1994-1996

Express Danae – Agapitos Express Ferries 1996-11/1999

Express Danae – Minoan Flying Dolphins / Saronikos Ferries 11/1999-12/2001

Express Danae – Hellas Flying Dolphins / Saronikos Ferries 12/2001-09/2004

ErkePastel Holdings 09/2004-06/2018

Scrapped at Aliaga (Turkey) 06/2018

Line

 

 

During the Seventies, the Greek yards, especially those ones based in Perama area, were very busy building a considerable number of small car ferries for Greek interests; probably that one was the “Golden Age” of Greek Shipbuilding industry, having as the best products the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines’s ships “Castalia” and “Aquarius”. Also Agapitos family gave work to Greek shipyards and in 1972 took delivery of the small ferry “Kyklades”. I’ve not any information about her past services, but I know that she was operating out of Rafina to Cyclades Islands, most probably serving Andros, Tinos and Mykonos. In 1992, when Agapitos brothers decided to separate their ways by creating Agapitos Lines and Agapitos Express Ferries, this ferry enters Agapitos Express Ferries’s fleet, being the only one former Agapitos Bros vessel to change her name, from “Kyklades” to “Express Efvoikos”. She was not part of Agapitos fleet between 1994 and 1996 : having been sold to Ventouris Lines, a branch of the bigger Ventouris Sea Lines which operated ferries to Saronic islands, was arrested in 1995 due to the bankruptcy of her owners and sold by auction to Agapitos Express Ferries again in 1996, being renamed “Express Danae” to operate on former Ventouris routes to Saronic islands ; finally in 1999 the ship was bought by Minoan Flying Dolphins. After ten years of service to Saronic Islands under three different operators, Hellas Flying Dolphins sold her after its plans to renew the fleet, being the ship bought by Pastel Holdings, which left Greece as the “Erke” under Cambodian flag. I’ve no many notices of the ferry after her farewell to Greece, and she was scrapped at Aliaga in 2018.

 

 

Photo Gallery

 

Immagine che contiene acqua, barca, esterni, nave

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Piraeus, 1984

Peter J. Fitzpatrick

 

AGAPITOS BROS – Kyklades (1972-1993)

 

 

VENTOURIS LINES FB Methodia 01_George Giannakis 17Se94

Piraeus

George Giannakis

 

VENTOURIS LINES – Methodia (1994-1996)

 

 

Immagine che contiene barca, esterni, acqua, nave

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AGAPITOS EXPRESS FERRIES FB Express Danae 02_Antonios Lazaris

From Antonios Lazaris’s

Greecefinikunda

collection

 

AGAPITOS EXPRESS FERRIES – Express Danae (1996-1999)

 

 

MFD SARONIKOS FERRIES FB Express Danae 01_Antonios Lazaris

Immagine che contiene barca, esterni, acqua, nave

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Piraeus

Piraeus, 2000

Antonios Lazaris

Peter J. Fitzpatrick

 

SARONIKOS FERRIES – Express Danae (1999-2004)

 

 

Immagine che contiene barca, acqua, esterni, nave

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Immagine che contiene acqua, barca, esterni, nave

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Trabzon, 13/10/2007

Sochi, 19/10/2009

Tony Garner

Brian Crocker

 

PASTEL HOLDINGS – Erke (2004-2018)

 

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