Steel twin screw motor vessel built in 2018 by Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH& Co KG, Flensburg, Germany (Yard No 775) as Ro/Ro vessel.

Technical Data

• Length: 209.79 m (overall) 197.74 m (between perpendiculars)
• Breadth: 26.0 m
• Depth: 17.0 m
• Draught: 6.8 m
• Tonnage: 32936 gross/9867 net/10444 t deadweight
• Engines: 2 x MAN 8L48/60 CR diesels
• Power: 19200 kW/HP
• Speed: 20.6 knots
• Capacity: 4076 lane meters
• Call Sign: IBVA. 9HA4907
• MMSI Number: 248998000
• IMO Number: 9848467
• RI Number: 98284
• Port of Registry: Valletta/Malta 🇲🇹, Cagliari/Italy 🇮🇹, Valletta/Malta 🇲🇹
• Sister-Ship: Gardenia Seaways (772), Tulipa Seaways (773), Maria Grazia Onorato (776), Meleq (769), Fadiq (770), Leevsten (780), Liekut (781)

History

January 22nd 2018: Keel struck.

May 23rd 2018: Launched.

© Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH& Co KG

© Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH& Co KG

© Fabian Vornholt (Flensburg, 29/08/2018)

October 12th 2018: Delivered to Sy RoRo 1 PTE, Ltd, Georgetown, Cayman Island.

October 16th 2018: Arrived at Lindø for conversion (installation of scrubber).

December 2018: Chartered to Compagnia Italiana Di Navigazione SPA, (Tirrenia).

January 2019: Chartered to DFDS/ U.N Ro-Ro, Turkey for services Trieste – Istanbul.

December 2019: Services for Tirrenia/ Moby.

May 2021: Chartered to Cobelfret.

May 8th 2021: Left Livorno for Rotterdam.

May 14th 2021: Arrived Rotterdam.

May 18th 2021: Services Rotterdam – Purfleet.

© Robert J Smith (Tilbury, 04/06/2021)

© Mark Stanford, Dover Strait Shipping (Tilbury, 06/06/2021)

© Hans Esveldt (Maasvlakte, 12/11/2021)

October 19th 2022: To Damen Dunkerque for dry-docking.

© Julien Carpentier (Dunkerque, 19/10/2022)

October 31st 2022: Left Dunkerque and sailed to Zeebrugge.

October 31st 2022: Left Zeebrugge and resumed service Rotterdam – Rozenburg – Purfleet,

December 12th 2022: Charter completed, came off service in Rotterdam.

December 13th 2022: Departed Rotterdam.

December 20th 2022: Arrived Livorno.

January 9th 2023: Left Livorno for Sete (France) to be chartered to DFDS for services Sete – Yalova (Turkey).

January 10th 2023: Left Sete for Yalova.

February 2023: Took up services Istanbul – Sete followed by Tuzla – Treiste.

August 1st 2024: Manager: Siem Shipping UK Ltd and renamed LISMORE and continues Tuzla – Treiste.

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