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NORWIND (1966)
Service dates: 1966-1987
Official number: 13838
Shipping lines: NORTH SEA FERRIES LTD.; P&O FERRIES
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Passenger Ferry.
Career
- 22.10.1965
- Launched.
- 03.1966
- Delivered as Norwind for the newly-formed North Sea Ferries Ltd for the Hull/Rotterdam service.
- 06.1974
- Transferred to Hull/Zeebrugge service.
- 31.03.1975
- Management transferred to P&O Ferries.
- 1981
- P&O interest in North Sea Ferries increased to 50%.
- 1987
- Sold to Norienga Shipping Co, Honduras (Ventouris Group Enterprises SA, managers) and renamed Grecia Express.
- 06.03.1994
- During winter lay-up at Aegion, she was sunk ‘by unknown persons acting maliciously’, as her owners held it. The underwriters refused to accept Ventouris's $10 million claim, however, stipulating that Mr. Ventouris has been connected with the loss of five vessels in recent years, two of them under suspicious circumstances. Among these was sister ship Italia Express (ex-Norwave), which sank in March 1988 at Drapetsona following an explosion caused by limpet mines attached to her hull. Her owners won both cases against the underwriters, which failed to provide hard evidence the company had masterminded the sinking.
- 06.1995
- Broken up at Aliaga, Turkey.