F/B Samaina - Piraeus

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F/B SAMAINA

Photo © George Giannakis, Piraeus, 21/10/95 #6168

Ship	Samaina (1990) ΣΑΜΑΙΝΑ	Building Spec.	Hanseatische Werft GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, 1962 – N° 18
Call Sign		IMO Number	5252531
GRT	3.843	DWT	810
Dimensions	110,01 x 15,27 x 4,48	Engines	2 Pielstick 12PCV, 5.296 kW
Speed	19 knots	Passengers	900
Beds	240	Cars	130
Lane Metres	198	Sister ships
Registry Port	Piraeus	Flag	Greece
Former Names/Own.	Nils Holgersson – TT Line 03/1962-12/1966 Gösta Berling – TT Line 12/1966-06/1967 Escapade – Compagnie* du Car Ferry 06/1967-10/1967 (charter)* Gösta Berling – TT Line 10/1967-03/1968 Escapade – Compagnie* du Car Ferry 03/1968-09/1968 (charter)* Gösta Berling – TT Line 09/1968-05/1975 Chartered to Ferry Boats Dominicanos* 12/1968-02/1969* Chartered to Compagnie* Maritime Toulon Sardaigne 03/1969-09/1969* Chartered to Compagnie* Maritime Toulon Sardaigne 04/1970-09/1970* Chartered to Compagnie* Maritime Toulon Sardaigne 04/1971-09/1971* Chartered to Compagnie* Maritime Toulon Sardaigne 04/1972-09/1972* Mary Poppins – TT Line 05/1975-11/1976 Samaina – Anonimi Naftiliaki Touristiki Etareia Samos Ikaria 11/1976-1985 Samaina – Elleniki Aktoploia 1985-1990
New Names/Owners	Scrapped at Alang (India) as “Sama 1” in July 2000
Line

The first “Nils Holgersson” of “TT Line”, employed on the link Trelleborg - Travemunde from 1962, was followed in Greece by the following two “Nils Holgersson” in 1994: the second one was named “European Pride”, then “Nettuno”, then “Hermes”; the third “Pollux” and then “Theofilos”. Substituted by the second “Nils Holgersson” in 1967, changed various names and services: Toulon - Porto Torres, for a French company on charter, then under her parent company ownership she connected Travemunde and Copenhagen, was engaged on cruises from Travemunde to Gdansk, Rönne, Leningrad and Visby, then in 1975 was renamed “Mary Poppins” for a planned Saint Malo – Southampton service, being also showed in London, but problems occurred with British and French worker unions stopped this plan and the “Mary Poppins” was back to her Baltic cruises. She arrived in Greek seas in 1976, purchased by a local company based in Ikaria and Samos, the Anonimi Naftiliaki Touristiki Etareia Samos Ikaria, better know as ANTESI. Due to financial problems of this company the ship was managed from 1985 to 1990 by Elliniki Aktoploia, a statal company created to manage ships of local companies affected by these kind of problems. Resold to Arkadia Lines in 1990, maintained the service to eastern islands was until November 4^th,1996, when ramed and sunked a Greek Navy ship, the “Kostakos” in Samos waters, causing the death of four soldiers. After the reparations was arrested due to the investigation following the accidents, and she didn’t move again from Eleusis, also because the crisis of Arkadia Lines and the big age of the ship, replaced by the “Anemos” of Nomicos Lines. Originally in service four times a-week between Piraeus, Ikaria and Samos, diverting via Syros, Tinos or Myconos, she leaved Piraeus on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evening and Saturday morning, returning from islands on Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday evening, offering valid reasons to prefer her the “Milena” or “Dimitra” of GA Ferries rather than this ship. Was sold to scrap in June 2000 to Turkey.