F/B Kapetan Alexandros A

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F/B KAPETAN ALEXANDROS A

Photo © Michele Lulurgas, Corfu Port, 29/07/94 #76

Ship	Kapetan Alexandros A (1994)	Building Spec.	Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon, United Kingdom, 1962 – N° 509
Call Sign	9HCP4 (1994-2001) H9SL (2001-2009)	IMO Number	5092888
GRT	4.909	DWT	1.554
Dimensions	110,19 x 16,79 x 3,99	Engines	2 Sulzer 12ASV25/30-VR, 4.340 kW
Speed	16 knots	Passengers	1.200
Beds	222 in 64 cabins	Cars	130
Lane Metres	315	Sister ships	Orestes (Scrapped in 2007)
Registry Port	Valletta (1994-2001) Panama (2001-2009)	Flag	Malta (1994-2001) Panama (2001-2009)
Former Names/Own.	Doric Ferry – Atlantic Steam Navigation (A.S.N.) 1962-1971 Doric Ferry – Townsend Thoresen 11/1971-06/1981 Atlas II – Libra Maritime 06/1981-1988 Alekos – Agoudimos Lines 1988-1989 Kapetan Alexandros – Agoudimos Lines 1989-1994
New Names/Owners	Scrapped at Aliaga on July 2009 as “Alexandros”
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Built in 1962 as a ro/ro ferry, she worked for almost twenty years linking Great Britain with Ireland and mainland Europe, before being sold in 1981 to Libra Maritime of Greece, which renamed her “Atlas II”. In 1988 was sold to Agoudimos Lines, which renamed her “Alekos” for a Rafina – Cyclades service, but a year later was converted to a passenger ferry and renamed “Kapetan Alexandros”. In 1992, Agoudimos Lines bought a new ferry for Cyclades, so the “Kapetan Alexandros” was moved to Adriatic services; in 1993 she changed her flag to Malta, being registered at Valletta under the similar “Kapetan Alexandros A” name. The first two years of service to Italy departed from Patras, but later the line was shortened to Igoumenitsa, offering a daily service, leaving from Italy in the evening from June to mid August and inverting the timetable, leaving Igoumenitsa and Corfu at night, from mid August to mid September. The “daily routine” of the ship remains unchanged until 2000, when Agoudimos Lines bought a new ferry to double the Brindisi – Greece line, leaving at morning and at evening from every port; in the meantime, the company decided to offer the “Kapetan Alexandros A” for sale, providing a single-ship timetable for Brindisi – Igoumenitsa in 2001. No one company paid to Agoudimos Lines the suggested price of USD 3 million, so the veteran was deployed on a new route, linking Bari with Durres. In her last ten years was inspected several times by port authorities (30 times, almost three per year, in both Brindisi, Bari and Piraeus), arrested for eight times, and detained for eight days in two occasions, on September 18^th, 2001 and on March 6^th, 2002. On March 2004, the “Kapetan Alexandros A” was again replaced on her original route by the “Penelope A”, and so was send to open another route, the second service to Albania of the company, linking Brindisi and Vlore; the veteran remained on her route also when the “Penelope A” was required elsewhere, so the Bari service was discontinued while the Brindisi – Vlore line remained the only ferry service of the company between Italy and Albania. In 2006 the ferry was made Stockholm-compliant, a very strange thing considering that the ferry was 44 years old that time; this work anyway didn’t took her to the 50^th year of life: she was sold for scrap in July 2009, another very strange thing because she missed the Summer traffic.