MV Victoria Seaways
Ex Lisco Maxima, Forza
© Carsten Dettmer (Klaipeda, 21/05/2018)
Steel twin screw “Coraggio Project” motor vessel built in 2009 by Nuovi Canterie Apuani, Marina di Carrara, Italy (Yard No 1241) as a Passenger/Ro-Ro Ship (vehicles)
Technical Data
- Length: 199.14 m (overall) 176.92 m (between perpendiculars)
Breadth: 26.6 m
Depth: 9.6 m
Draught: 6.4 m
Tonnage: 25675 gross/ net/8500t deadweight
Engines: 2 x Wärtsilä 12V46 diesel
Power: 24000 kW/32616 bHP
Speed: 24.0 knots (Service) 24.5 knots (Max)
Capacity: 600 passengers/2623 lane meters/120 cars
Call Sign: LYTD
MMSI Number: 277408000 - IMO Number: 9350721
- Italian Register Number: 85264
Port of Registry: Palermo/Italy 🇮🇹, Klaipeda/Lithuania 🇱🇹
Sister Ships: Coraggio (1237), Audacia (1238), Tenacia (1239), Superfast I (1240), Superfast II (1242), Energia (1244), Forza (1243)
Current AIS Location
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History
June 27th 2007: Ordered Grimaldi Holding SpA Palermo, Italy for delivery in 2009 under the name of ZORZA.
December 19th 2007: Keel laid.
January 17th 2008: Sold to DFDS A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark.
December 3rd 2008: Launched.
March 27th 2009: Delivered to Lisco Maxima Shipping, Nicosia, Cyprus
May 11th 2009: DFDS Lisco services Kiel – Klaipeda.
© Dirk Jankowsky (Kiel, 08/03/2011)
© Aleksi Lindström (Kiel, 09/08/2011)
March 28th 2012: Registered owner, Lisco Maxima Shipping Ltd, Klaipeda, Lithuania (Management DFDS Seaways Ab, Lithuania) an renamed VICTORIA SEAWAYS .
© Andreas Wörteler (Kiel,12/05/2012)
April 23rd 2013: Between Kiel – Klaipeda, a fire broke out on board. Extinguished by crew and the ships sprinkler system. No one on board was injured.
2014: Services Kiel – Klaipeda/ Karlshamn – Klaipeda.
© Carsten Dettmer (Klaipeda, 21/05/2018)
September 27th 2021: Services Klaipeda – Kiel.
© Wolfgang Fricke (Kiel, 14/07/2022)
September 5th 2023: Services Karlshamn – Klaipeda
October 3rd 2023: Taken out of service for technical repairs.
October 9th 2023: Services Klaipeda – Karlshamn resumed.
September 24th 2025: Came off service at Klaipeda.
September 24th 2025: Left Klaipeda for Dunkerque.
September 26th 2025: Services Dunkerque – Rosslare relacing OPTIMA SEAWAYS.
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