H/S/F Jet Ferry 1

H/S/C JETFERRY 1

Photo © Egidio Ferrighi, Piraeus, 28/09/05 #2964

Ship	Jet Ferry 1 (2000) ΤΖΕΤ ΦΕΡΡΥ 1	Building Spec.	1995 at Mjellem & Karlsen, Bergen, Norway, N° 151
Call Sign	SZMT	IMO Number	9111709
GRT	4.675	DWT	1.402
Dimensions	95 x 17,4 x 3,65	Engines	4 MTU, 23.184 kW
Speed	35 knots	Passengers	600
Beds	-	Cars	160
Lane Metres		Sister Ships	Jetliner
Registry Port	Piraeus	Flag	Greek
Former Owners	StarMarine Shipping 1995-96 DSB Rederi 1996-98 Scandlines 1998-00	Former Names	Kattegat 1995 Berlin Express 1996-99 Gomera Jet 1999 Express Ionion 2000
New Owners		New Names
Line	Agios Konstantinos – Skiathos – Skopelos – Alonissos

One of the last introductions in G.A. Ferries fleet, was built in 1995 for the Grenaa – Hunderstedt link named “Kattegat”. The following year she changed her name (Berlin Express) and was put on Gedser – Rostock line, first with DSB colours, then with the most notorious livery of Scandlines, which was her company until 1999. On that season she left the cold Baltic seas for the sun of Tenerife, when she linked Tenerife and La Gomera under charter for Trasarmas; however, the service was not very successfull, so at the end of charter the ship was back to Scandlines, which was able to sell her to G.A. Ferries in 2000 as “Express Ionion”. As long as MFD has acquired the 46% of G.A. Ferries, the ship gained a MFD licence for the line Patras – Cephalonia – Ithaki and the board of G.A. Ferries decided to rename and repaint the ship in a look which is much more familiar to the HFD’s “Highspeed” rather than to “Rodanthi”, “Daliana” or “Dimitroula”, challenging with the traditional Cephalonia operator, Strintzis Lines. However Blue Star Ferries continued to have the dominant position on this market, probably because of the not so excellent seakeeping qualities rumoured about “Jet Ferry 1”, so since 2002 summer the ship is engaged on a link between Agios Konstantinos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Alonissos.

Photo by courtesy of EFOPLISTIS magazine

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