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F/B KYKLADES
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 |
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Dimensions |
74,48
x 12,02 x 3,2 |
Engines |
2
MAK 9c, 3.089 kW |
Speed |
17
knots |
Passengers |
852 |
Beds |
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Cars |
52 |
Lane Metres |
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Sister ships |
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Registry Port |
Piraeus |
Flag |
Greek |
Former Names/Own. |
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New Names/Owners |
Express Efvoikos – Agapitos Express Ferries 1993-1994 Methodia – Ventouris 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 Erke – Pastel
Holdings 09/2004-06/2018 Scrapped at Aliaga (Turkey)
06/2018 |
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Line |
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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
AGAPITOS BROS – Kyklades
(1972-1993)
VENTOURIS LINES – Methodia
(1994-1996)
AGAPITOS EXPRESS FERRIES – Express Danae
(1996-1999)
SARONIKOS FERRIES – Express Danae
(1999-2004)
PASTEL HOLDINGS – Erke
(2004-2018)