MV Panagia Tinou (1972)

Express Artemis at Piraeus in 2000
History
Name:
  • Hengist
  • Stena Hengist
  • Romilda
  • Apollo Express 2
  • Panagia Ekatontapiliani
  • Express Artemis
  • Panagia Ekatontapiliani
  • Agios Georgios
Owner: Vaggelis Ventouris
Port of registry:
Builder: DCNS Arsenal de la Marine Shipyards
Yard number: CF1
Launched: 29 April 1972
Acquired: 6 June 1972
In service: 16 June 1972
Identification:
General characteristics
Tonnage: 5590
Length: 110m
Draught: 11.23m
Speed: 19.5 knots

MV Panagia Tinou, previously MV Agios Georgios, is a roll on roll off ferry launched in 1972 as MV Hengist. She was designed to operate across the English channel and served the Folkestone-Boulogne route until 1991. She served with several operators before being sold to Vaggelis Ventouris in 2004 to serve the Greek islands and is still active as of June 2013.[1][2] In 1987, she was beached as a result of the great storm of 1987[3]

In April 2016, she was in danger of sinking while docked in Piraeus.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Thorton, Nigel. "MV Hengist - Past and Present". Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "FOLKESTONE: M.V.HENGIST". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Williams, Rob (24 October 2013). "Worst weather since the Great Storm of 1987: UK to be blasted by hurricane-strength winds". The Indendent. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Leclere, Matt (2016-04-26). "Panagia Tinou sinking: Greek ferry and former Folkestone to Boulogne ship famously beached after Great Storm in 1987". Kent Online. KM Group. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
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