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F/B NAIAS II

AGAPITOS LINES FB Naias II

Photo © Gunnar Menzer

 

Ship

Naias II (1989)

ΝΑΙΑΣ II

Building Spec.

Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence,

Port de Bouc, France, 1966 – N° 327

Call Sign

SXJV

IMO Number

6622616

GRT

4.555

DWT

1.099

Dimensions

115 x 18,1 x 4,36

Engines

2 De Bretagne – Pielstick 16PC2-V400, 10.944 kW

Speed

20,5 knots

Passengers

1.300

Beds

256

Cars

240

Lane Metres

 

Sister ships

Express Samina (sunk in 2000)

Salem Express (sunk in 1991)

Registry Port

Piraeus

Flag

Greek

Former Names/Own.

Launched as “Provence”

Comte de Nice – C.G.T. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique 07/1966-03/1969

Comte de NiceC.G.T.M. Compagnie Generale Transmediterraneenne 03/1969-03/1976

Comte de NiceS.N.C.M. Societe Nationale Corse Mediterranee 03/1976-05/1983

Naias II – Kriton S.A. 05/1983-07/1989

New Names/Owners

Express Naias – Minoan Flying Dolphins / Hellas Ferries 01/2000-12/2001

Express Naias – Hellas Flying Dolphins / Hellas Ferries 12/2001-04/2003

Scrapped at Aliaga (Turkey) on April 2003 as “Express Naias

Line

 

 

Was launched in 1966 as the “Provence”; anyway she entered service the same year as the “Comte de Nice”, living the three different ages of French State-owned companies alternating Nice – Corsica service with Marseille – Alger line. She arrived in Greece in 1983 as “Naias II” for the lines Piraeus – Syros – Tinos – Mykonos with Kriton brand, replacing the original “Naias”. Anyway the company didn’t survived very much the divorce from its original ferry, and ceased ferry services in 1989, selling the ferry and the operating licence to Agapitos Bros. The company, which had already bought “Naias II”’s original sister from Stability Maritime, failing to change the name of the ferry, decided to do the same with this one. Refitted in a different way as her sister was, has a great superstructure at stern, lacking on “Golden Vergina”, despite the two vessels have the same figure of GRT: this fact is probably due to the different internal arrangements. A never loved ship, in 2000 season travelled for Hellas Ferries, a Minoan Flying Dolphin brand, until October, when she was arrested for safety reasons and never rerouted, probably because of her sistership with “Express Samina”. Scrapped in early 2003 in Turkey, a latter opinion about her name “Naias II” painted under her bridge under Kriton ownership: horrible.

 

Photo Gallery

 

From Xavier Maillard’s

collection

 

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE – Comte de Nice (1966-1969)

 

 

From Xavier Maillard’s

Ile Rousse, 24/06/1974

collection

Serge Tomas – Wikimedia

 

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSMEDITERRANEENNE – Comte de Nice (1969-1976)

 

 

From Xavier Maillard’s

collection

 

SNCM – Comte de Nice (1976-1983)

 

 

Piraeus, 1983

Piraeus, September 1985

Fleet File Rotterdam

Paul Morgan

 

KRITON S.A. – Naias II (1983-1989)

 

 

AGAPITOS LINES FB Naias II 02_George Giannakis coll

From George Giannakis’s

collection

 

AGAPITOS BROS – Naias II (1989-1992)

 

 

AGAPITOS LINES FB Naias II 03_Antonis Lazaris

AGAPITOS LINES FB Naias II 04_Antonis Lazaris

AGAPITOS LINES FB Naias II 05_Antonis Lazaris

Piraeus

Mykonos, 01/07/1996

Syros, 15/09/1997

Mykonos, 26/09/1999

Antonios Lazaris

Antonios Lazaris

Antonios Lazaris

Carsten Dettmer

Tony Garner

Tony Garner

 

AGAPITOS LINES – Naias II (1993-2000)

 

 

From Pieter Inpijn’s

 

collection

Antonios Lazaris

 

MINOAN FLYING DOLPHINS / HELLAS FERRIES – Express Naias (2000-2003)

 

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