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ABOUT THIS SITE

This site is optimized for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and was realized with Microsoft Office Word, as long as I don’t know nothing about HTML and so on, please sorry if you find some little troubles in the site. However, if you find some problems please contact me at my address mlulurgas@hotmail.com in order to solve every difficulty you could find. As long as my little PC knowledge allows, you can’t save the photos on your PC, this because of my intention to respect the copyright of the photo’s author; however if you send me a mail I can send directly the photos requested to your mailbox, this only if the photos you want are for personal use; if the photo you want is mine, you can also publish it on a website, but this only if my name is shown as the author of the photo and if the website where the photo is published is totally no-profit. My policy about the photos is to publish more and better shots, this means that sometimes the photos you can find on the site have big dimensions to have a good quality standard, so the loading of the photo could take some more time than the standards, especially if you have a slow internet connection. Sometimes you could find the same ship under different names and different companies because she had served these operators in different times: the pages you could find will be very similar one to another, but each one is focused on the service period for the present company: for example, the “Ionian Island” of Strintzis Lines and the “Blue Island” of Blue Star Ferries are the same ship, but on Strintzis Lines page you’ll find many notices about her period as “Ionian Island” and mainly the photos of that time; as “Blue Island” instead the comments are mainly about her service with Blue Star Ferries. About the Register, when you choose a name of a Ship you’ll be linked to that ship’s page; if a name of a ship is related to a period before or after her Greek service you’ll be linked to the more closer Greek service page if the name is earlier of her Greek days, and to the last Greek service if the name is after her sale by a Greek company. Thanking you for your attention and excusing-me for my poor English, I’m hoping that you’ll like this site; however, although is always possible to improve ourselves, I would like very much to receive your contributes, opinions and advices!!!

CREDITS

Here I would like to thank all the friends who contributed to the realization of the site, although few words could not thank enough.

The first person I want to thank for all the work which is behind these web pages is my father Dimitrios Lulurgas, to which all this work is devoted, as long as in my opinion, the best way to remember a beloved person is to dedicate him something that makes you feel good. Having been born in Florence, I don’t think I would ever became a shiplover, as long as between all the beauties of my city, the sea and a port, are missing: these deficiencies were supplied from my Greek father, which gave me the occasion to travel between Italy and Greece since I was a little child and, moreover, collaborated in his life with many shipping companies (moreover Strintzis Lines, Anek Lines and Marlines, and later also Superfast Ferries), so I remember tons of shipping brochures in my childhood, which were a sort of spark that ignited the “shipping” flame in my life. I don’t know what my father thought about this passion, but surely he was the one which took me to the Port of Piraeus the first time I visited it in my life, he was the one which took me the first time to the Neo Molo of Drapetsona in my life, a place that was my first destination in Piraeus area every time I travelled there, until the access to the quay was forbidden to the public. Surely, wherever my dad is now, he knows that I should thank him for one of the things I love most in my life, and since today, everyone which enters the home page of the site, can remember my beloved dad.

First of all myself, Michele Lulurgas: I’m the webmaster and the author of comments and informations and of the worst photos of the site. I had the opportunity to sail to Greece many times in these years, travelling aboard or visiting a lot of ships as Karageorgis (although I don’t remember them!!!), Ionian Star ’76, Ionian Sun, Ionian Galaxy, Ionian Island, Ionion, Rethimnon, Lato, Kamiros, Nissos Kalymnos, Rodos, El. Venizelos, Ionian Star ’94, Superfast I, II, III, IV, Aretousa, Rodanthi, Express Olympia, Ikarus, Pasiphae, Superferry Hellas, Blue Star 1, Europa Palace, Fantastic, La Suprema, Aries, Excelsior, Nomentana, Mega Express Three, Splendid, Superfast VI, Aegean Sun, Olympia Palace, Moby Aki, Victory, Janas, Giraglia, Moby Baby, Aurelia, Hellenic Spirit, Ionian King, Nissos Mykonos, Highspeed 5, Lissos, Eptanisos, Ionian Queen, Anthi Marina, La Superba, Snav Sardegna, Moby Drea, Ariadne Palace, Superfast V, Mytilene, Theofilos, Ionian Sky, Diagoras, Blue Star Paros, Superfast XI, Pascal Paoli, Mega Express Four, Sardinia Regina, Excellent, Raffaele Rubattino, Superferry II, Penelope A, Ikarus Palace, Oglasa, Moby Lally, Split 1700, Dubrovnik, Marko Polo, Ancona, Sophocles V., Nissos Chios, Jean Nicoli, Superfast VI, Superfast XII, Cruise Europa, Cruise Olympia, Lefka Ori, Prevelis, Ariadne, Kriti II, Visentzos Kornaros, Ionian Queen, Europalink, Coraggio, Euroferry Olympia, Audacia, Silja Festival, Superfast II, Nissos Rodos, Blue Star Patmos, Forza, Bari, Fior di Levante, Mare di Levante, Mega Andrea, Mega Express, Pascal Lota, Rigel I, Kerkyra Express, Theologos P, Superferry, Asterion, Blue Star Delos, Elyros, Asterion II, Knossos Palace, Festos Palace, Prince, Moby Niki, Stelio Montomoli, Corsica Express Three, Corfu, Golden Bridge, Venezia, Cruise Olbia, Mega Regina, Europa Palace ’21, Zeus Palace, Cruise Ausonia, Moby Ale, Moby Vincent, Moby Dada, Vincenzo Florio, Cartour Delta, Rigel VII, Corfu Spirit, Florencia, GNV Spirit, Mega Victoria, Anemos, Kydon Palace, Apollon Hellas, Porfyrousa, Lefka Ori. There are nothing, opposite to the lucky friends who can travel on 4/5 different ships on every holiday, but I think that is a good fleet anyway!

Then, a special thanks to all the contributors of the site:

Daniele Alletto	Pedro Amaral	Gena Anfimov	Antonios Angelopoulos	Stefanos Antoniadis	Marco Asaro
Micke Asklander	Peter Asklander	Rossella Balaskas	Massimo Barbetti	Emilio Barenghi	Marco Barsotti
Francesco Bassano	Alessandro Bertolini	Aris Bilalis	Ted Blank	Fotios Brekas	Giuseppe Boato
Bodolinsky	Gabriele Campoccio	Captain Peter	Michael Chiou	George Choriatellis	Joseph Collinson
Brian Crocker	Douglas Cromby	Gordon Dalzell	Ralph Dazert	Rijn N. De Ruiter	Vincent Deley
Carsten Dettmer	Dragan	“Efoplistis” magazine	Jullien Eric	Marco Esposito	Matteo Fasce
Egidio Ferrighi	Peter J. Fitzpatrick	Brian Fisher	Fleet File Rotterdam	Bernard Fontanelle	Frank Först
J.Y. Freeman	Wolfgang Fricke	Maurizio Gadda	Andrea Galliano	Tony Garner	Matteo Gasparoni
George Giannakis	Osvaldo Giannella	Godra	Gordy	Smulick Goronzola	Greecefinikunda
Manuel Hernández	Tore Hettervik	Chris Howell	Muhsen Hussein	Ilias Ikaria	Julien Imbert
Ted Ingham	Stephen Ings	Pieter Inpijn	Eero Isotalo	Tsuyoshi Ishiyama	Harry Janhunen
Per Jensen	Chris Jones	Apostolos Kaknis	Karolos	Tapio Karvonen	Markus Klausnitzer
Vladimir Knyaz	George Kobeos	Wolfgang Kramer	Lucas Latreche	Antonis Lazaris	Panteleimon Lelekis
Dinos Lemonis	Aleksi Lindstrom	Stathis Livieratos	Peter Longhurst	Frank Lose	Xavier Maillard
Claudio Manzini	Alberto Marchesi	Gavino Luigi Marcia	Fotis Marinelis	Mark1955	Carlo Martinelli
Jim Mc Faul	Allan Mears	Dave Medgett	Gunnar Menzer	Giorgos Mertis	Daniele Miglio
Vedran Mlacic	Antonios Molos	Paul Morgan	Dennis Mortimer	Jeff Mortimer	Roberto Munaò
Murase	Wayne Murray	Michael Neidig	Demetrio Neri	Matyas Nezhoda	Miguel Nóia
John O’Neill	Frits Olinga	Katsuyuki Ookubo	Oostend Ferry Page	Alessandro Orfanu’	Martin Palardy
Nektarios Papadakis	Bert Pellgrom	Yvon Perchoc	Gianpaolo Pesarini	Manos Petridis	Giovanni Pirodda
Georges Pop	Proud Ionian	Kimmo Rantanen	Hans Rosenkranz	Richard Sahlsten	Derek Sands
Hans Schaefer	Sebastian Schaffer	Bob Scott	Seawolf	Michael Segeth	Senba
Joerg Seyler	ships@tin.it	Ken Smith	Ray Smith	Robert J. Smith	Kostas Sotiriadis
Erald Spahiu	Marko Stampehl	Urs Steiner	Oleg Sushkov	Ingmar Svensson	Nigel Thorntonn
Roy Thorntonn	Nikos Thrylos	Davide Tognolini	Vladimir Tonic	Sebastiaan Toufekoulas	Glenn Towler
Frans Truyens	Evangelos S. Tzardis	Rick Vince	Panagiotis Vlachos	Vovashap	Dominik Wagner
Jochen Wegener	Wil Weijsters	Gordon Wise	José Paiva Wolff	John Van Zijderveld

Although it seems obvious, I want also to say that the above friends are not written in any importance order: in my opinion also a one-photo contribute is precious and well accepted, so do not hesitate sending me any photo, I want to enlarge the above list!

It’s not my policy to publish an author’s photo without the permission: if this was happened for any reason I sincerely apologize and, if the owner of the photo wants, I’ll immediately write his/her name near the photo; if he/she don’t allow me to publish the photo I’ll immediately remove it.

Then, a true thank coming from my heart and a special dedication to Gino Margheri and Luciano Cassigoli, about them I can say only that: YOU’RE THE BEST!

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