3,241 grt; 662 dwt; 1,700 passengers; 190 cars.
Operator: Regie voor Maritiem Transport (Belgian Marine Transport Authority), Ostend, Belgium.
Built: 1965 by NV Cockerill Yards Hoboken, Hoboken, Belgium. Yard no 828.
Machinery: twin-screw with 2 x 12-cylinder, two-stroke Sulzer 12NH51 of 9,600 bhp (total). Speed: 21 knots.
1983-sold to Ventouris Group, Piraeus, Greece, renamed GEORGIOS B then GIORGIOS EXPRESS for service Piraeus – Santorini.
2001-laid up at Eleusis..
2009-sold to breakers at Aliaga, Turkey, arrived 25/3.
Photo: arriving from Ostend, with Sealink’s INVICTA in the background, inbound from Calais.