MS Salamis Filoxenia
When Van Gogh in the port of Falmouth
Van Gogh (1999-2010) Club I (1999) Club Cruise I (1998-1999) Odessa Sky (1995-1998) Gruziya (1975-1995)
IMO no. 7359400
The Salamis Filoxenia is a cruise ship that is used by Salamis Cruise Lines for cruises in the Eastern Mediterranean.
History
The ship was built in 1975 on the Finnish Oy Wärtsilä Ab Turku shipyard as a ferry. The keel-laying ceremony took place on 6 March 1974. Was completed the ship on 30 June 1975. Identical sister ships were named after former constituent states of the USSR ships Azerbaihzan, Belorussiya, Kareliya and Kazakhstan. It came to the Black Sea Shipping Co based in Odessa under the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines as Gruziya going.
After the end of the USSR in 1992, the ship was converted into a cruise ship. From 1995 to 1998 it ran as Odessa Sky, then a year as Club Cruise I. In 1999, the ship initially renamed Club I and then, also in 1999, in Van Gogh.
Since 2006 the ship with homeport Majuro drove islands for the British tour operator Travel Scope Holidays, which had, however, return the ship end of 2007 to the owner under the flag of the Marshall. As of early 2008, the ship of Van Gogh Cruises was used, which take over the already marketed by Travel Holidays World Travel Scope of the ship. At the end of the world tour the ship, however, was arrested in Funchal. The other trips were eventually canceled. The tour operator Van Gogh Cruises ceased to operate after all, a late April.
As the owner was most recently the company Maritime & Leasing Ltd.. registered in the Bahamas, the ship management was responsible for the Dutch company Club Cruise. After the Club Cruise ceased trading, the ship was arrested in Greece. On 7 July 2009 it was auctioned at Salamis Cruise Lines is based in Limassol.
Since 2011 the ship as Salamis Filoxenia home port of Limassol under the flag of Cyprus in use.
Collision with tanker in Gibraltar
On 26 September 2004, the Van Gogh collided at 12:40 clock at Gibraltar with 492 passengers and 228 crew members on board with the Greek tanker Spetses. The Van Gogh was on the way from Gibraltar to Tangier in Morocco. The Spetses, a 1996 -built double hull tankers of the Greek shipping company Minerva Maritime ( Details of the ship on the right below), was approximately 140,000 tons of crude oil on its way from Egyptian Sidi Kerir to the oil refinery in the Spanish port of Algeciras. During the collision, in which the Van Gogh collided with her bow to the starboard side of Spetses, there was only property damage. People were either on board the Van Gogh, still aboard the Spetses to harm. Also joined the collision of no oil.
As a result of the collision had to be canceled the cruise. The damage to the bow of the Van Gogh was subsequently corrected in the shipyard of Cammell Laird in Gibraltar.