AGIOS PANTELEIMON (ΑΓΙΟΣ ΠΑΝΤΕΛΕΗΜΩΝ)

-Aneth Ferries

Built in 1999 (age 26). Registered in Piraeus. Current line: None (under refit in Thassos)

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The landing craft AGIOS PANTELEIMON was built in 1999 in Greece, as the IOANNIS APOSTOLIS II for the Greek company Nirides NE, which was based in Salamina. She replaced the company's oldest landing craft, namely the IOANNIS APOSTOLIS, which was retired in 1999 and then sold in 2000 to the Sierra Leonean company Great Scarcies Ferry Company. The IOANNIS APOSTOLIS II was deployed on the Perama-Salamina line, where she remained until 2007, when she was replaced by a newly-built double-ended ferry, namely the NAVARCHOS APOSTOLIS II (which was sold in 2017 to the Mexican company Ultramar). She was subsequently sold to Agioreitikes Grammes, which is based in the Agion Oros area. She was renamed AGIOS PANTELEIMON and she was deployed on the Ouranoupolis-Dafini-Agion Oros line, thus serving the monasteries of the Agion Oros in the monastic community of Mount Athos. She also became her company's new flagship, a title which she retained until she was sold in 2013 to the Corfu-based company S&L Ferries. She was therefore deployed on the Igoumenitsa-Corfu line on the Ionian Sea. In 2015 she was sold to the Thassos-based company ANETH Ferries, being traded for the THASSOS VI which joined S&L Ferries (now known as Kerkyra Seaways) as the AGIOS SPIRIDON. The AGIOS PANTELEIMON entered service for her new owners on the Kavala-Thassos line, where she remains today.

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