GALAXY (ΓΚΑΛΑΞΥ)

-A-Ships Management

Built in 1979 (age 46). Registered in Limassol. Current line: None (under refit in Perama)

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The cruiseferry GALAXY was built in 1979 in Poland, as the SILESIA for the Polish company Polferries (the trading name of the Polish Baltic Shipping Company). She began service on the Gdańsk-Nynäshamn-Helsinki line, thus connecting Poland with Sweden and Finland on the Baltic Sea. In 1980 she was deployed on the Gdańsk-Karlskrona line, where she stayed for just one season. In 1981 she returned to the Gdańsk-Nynäshamn-Helsinki line. In 1983 she was chartered to the Tunisian company Tunisia Ferries (also known as Compagnie Tunisienne de Navigation, or COTUNAV), for whom she was deployed on the Genoa-Tunis line for three years, while from 1985 to 1986 she operated in a joint venture alongside the Italian company Grimaldi Siosa Lines (the predecessor of Grimaldi Lines). In 1986 she returned to Polferries and she was inserted on the Świnoujście-Copenhagen-Travemünde line. In 1989 she was deployed on the Świnoujście-Ystad line, while in 1997 she moved to the Świnoujście-Copenhagen-Rønne line. In 1999 she again returned to the Świnoujście-Ystad line, while in 2000 she headed to the Gdańsk-Nynäshamn line. In 2003 she once more resumed service on the Świnoujście-Ystad line, before being laid-up in 2005 in Świnoujście. She was sold later in that same year to the Greek company GA Ferries. She arrived in Perama after having been renamed FELICIA, but before undergoing a refit for her new owners, she was sold to the Ukrainian company UkrFerry. She was renamed YUZHNAYA PALMIRA and she began service in 2006 on the İstanbul-Odessa line, thus connecting Turkey with Ukraine through the Black Sea. In 2008 she was chartered to the Spanish company Iscomar and she was renamed BEGOÑA DEL MAR. She began service on the Valencia-Ibiza line on the Balearic Sea, where she stayed for one season, after which she returned to UkrFerry in 2009. She was once again renamed YUZHNAYA PALMIRA and she returned to service on the İstanbul-Odessa line. She was laid-up in Chornomorsk in 2010, and she stayed there until she was acquired later in that same year by the then-newly-established Italian company Adriatica Traghetti. She was renamed ADRIATICA I and she was deployed on the Bari-Durrës line on the Adriatic Sea in 2011. In 2013 she was chartered to the Moroccan company Inter Shipping for service on the Algeciras-Tangier Med line on the Gibraltar Strait, but after just a few days the charter ended prematurely, after which the ship was laid-up in Porto Empedocle. She was then due to be chartered to the Italian company Siremar for service between Sicily and the Aeolian Islands on the Tyrrhenian Sea, but she instead continued to remain laid-up in Porto Empedocle. She remained there until late 2016, when she was sold to the Greek company European Seaways. She was renamed GALAXY and, following a refit in Drapetsona, she entered service in 2017 on the Zakynthos-Kefalonia-Igoumenitsa-Corfu-Brindisi line on the Adriatic Sea. In 2018 she was chartered to Africa Morocco Link and she operated on the Algeciras-Tangier Med line. During that same year, European Seaways was rebranded as A-Ships Management. The ship was chartered to Inter Shipping for the second time in 2019, although this time she operated successfully on the Algeciras-Tangier Med line. She returned to A-Ships Management in 2020, and she entered service on the Brindisi-Vlöre line. In 2023 she was chartered to the Italian company Caronte & Tourist, for whom she operated on the Porto Empedocle Lampedusa line. In 2024 she again returned to A-Ships Management for service on the Brindisi-Vlöre line. In 2025 she remained laid-up in Perama, although later in the year she was chartered to the Faroese company Strandfaraskip Landsins, for whom she was deployed on the Tórshavn-Tvøroyri line on the Faroe Islands Archipelago.

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