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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 |
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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!