AEGEAN GEM (ΕΤΖΙΑΝ ΤΖΕΜ)
-Velis Lines
ex-NAXOS STAR (ΝΑΞΟΣ ΣΤΑΡ) of Panteleos Cruises (1995-2025)
Built in 1995 (age 30). Registered in Piraeus. Current line: None (under drydock in Perama)
The small passenger ship NAXOS STAR was launched in 1994 in Ukraine, being one of many sister ships built in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s that were acquired by Greek companies. She was initially known as the LETICIA, but she did not sail at all until the following year, in 1995, when she was sold to the Greek company Panteleos Cruises, which was based in Naxos. She was renamed NAXOS STAR and she began performing daily cruises on the Cyclades, namely on the Naxos-Paros-Delos-Mykonos-Irakleia-Koufonisi-Amorgos-Santorini line. After 30 years with Panteleos Cruises, she was sold to the Greek company Velis Lines, which is based in Chalki. She was renamed AEGEAN GEM and she was deployed on the Rhodes-Chalki line on the Dodecanese.
PHOTOS (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021):
The NAXOS STAR having just arrived in Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR having just arrived in Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR having just arrived in Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR resting in Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR resting in Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR resting in Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR docked in Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR docked in Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR docked in Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR prior to her departure from Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR prior to her departure from Delos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR seen heading from Delos to Mykonos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR having just arrived in Mykonos (6/2018).
The NAXOS STAR seen in Naxos at night (7/2019).
The NAXOS STAR seen resting in Naxos (7/2019).
The NAXOS STAR seen resting in Naxos (7/2019).
The NAXOS STAR seen resting in Naxos (7/2019).
The NAXOS STAR seen resting in her namesake island (7/2019).
The NAXOS STAR seen resting in Naxos (9/2020).
The NAXOS STAR seen resting in Naxos (9/2020).
The NAXOS STAR seen resting in Naxos (9/2020).
The NAXOS STAR seen in Naxos (7/2021).
The NAXOS STAR seen in Naxos (7/2021).
The NAXOS STAR seen in Naxos, in what proved to be my final picture of the ship under that name, as she was sold in 2025 to Velis Lines, for whom she began service as the AEGEAN GEM (7/2021).