3,809 grt; 366 dwt; 1,215 passengers; 100 cars.
Operator: RTM - Regie voor Transport Maritiem (Belgian Maritime Transport Authority), Ostend, Belgium.
Built: 1972 by J Boel & Fils, Temse, Belgium. Yard no 1391.
Propulsion: twin-screw with 2 x 12-cylinder, two-stroke Sulzer 12NH51 of 9,600 bhp (total). Speed: 20 knots.
1985-sold to Ionian Navigation Co Ltd, Valletta, Malta renamed OLYMPIA and later chartered to Hellenic Mediterranean Lines with the name LYDIA for service Ortona–Igoumenitsa.
1995-sold to Illyria Ferries (registered to Lefki Investments Corp, Kingstown, St. Vincent, renamed EPHESUS for service between Brindisi and Valona.
1996-registered to Skylark Trading Ltd., Kingstown, St. Vincent, renamed BERGAMA for Stern Lines service between Bari and Cesme.
1998-sold to Anatolia Ferries, renamed BOSPORUS.
2000-laid up in Cesme.
2004 to breakers at Aliaga, Turkey 11/3.
Photo: Arriving from Ostend