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PANAGIA SKIADENI (ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑ ΣΚΙΑΔΕΝΗ)

-Dodekanisos Seaways

Built in 1986 (age 38). Registered in Rhodes. Current line: Rhodes-Symi

The conventional ferry PANAGIA SKIADENI was built in 1986 in Japan, as the FERRY TACHIBANA for the Japanese company Nankai Ferry. She was deployed on the Wakayama-Tokushima line, where she remained until 2000. That same year, she was sold to the South Korean company Dong Yang Shipping Company (known as Dong Yang Express Ferry Company since 2005) and she was renamed ORIENT STAR. She served the Busan-Jeju line on the Jeju Strait, where she remained until 2003. During that same year she was sold to the Greek company Karystia Lines (owned by the Alifrangis family), thus becoming their second ship, after the MARMARI EXPRESS which had been acquired in 1999. She was temporarily renamed STAR A and she underwent a major conversion in Drapetsona, during which her bow was remodeled, while her stern was upgraded with the addition of outdoor sun decks, and her indoor areas were fully refurbished. She was eventually renamed ARTEMISIA in 2004, and she began service on the Rafina-Marmari line on the Petalioi Gulf in 2005. Following the completion of the 2011 season, she was sold to Dodekanisos Seaways, hence becoming their third ship and the first conventional ferry to begin services for them (indeed they had bought the ferry PANAGIA SKIADENI back when they were established in 1999, but that ship never operated for them, as she was sold within a few months to DANE Sea Line, and she is currently known as the DIAGORAS of Blue Star Ferries). She was renamed PANAGIA SKIADENI and she underwent a refit in Salamina, before beginning service in late 2011 on the Rhodes-Symi line on the Dodecanese. From 2012 to 2014 she also operated on the Rhodes-Marmaris line. She underwent a major refit in 2021 in Salamina, during which her indoor areas were fully renovated. In 2023 she operated on the inter-Dodecanese lifeline serving the Dodecanese Islands with Samos, therefore operating on the Samos-Agathonisi-Farmakonisi-Arkioi-Patmos-Leipsoi-Leros-Kalymnos-Kos-Symi-Rhodes lifeline. She returned to the Rhodes-Symi line in 2024.

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