{"id":29807,"date":"2021-12-25T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=29807"},"modified":"2022-01-07T21:43:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:43:58","slug":"limon-history-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=29807","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/td>LOI<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
5\/3\/1969<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
9\/7\/1969<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
18\/7\/1969<\/td>Delivered to British Rail, London, England <\/td><\/tr>
31\/7\/1969<\/td>Dover – Bolougne route.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/10\/1969<\/td>Dover – Dunkerque route.<\/td><\/tr>
22\/10\/1970<\/td>Hit a pier at Dunkerque<\/td><\/tr>
29\/10\/1970<\/td>Back in service after repairing.<\/td><\/tr>
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1978<\/td>Build new lounge to garage and Self service shop<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1\/1979<\/td>Owner Sealink U.K. <\/td><\/tr>
1\/1\/1979<\/td>Folkestone – Boulougne route.<\/td><\/tr>
16\/1\/1981<\/td>Engineroom fire.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/3\/1982<\/td>Stuck in beach at Oostende<\/td><\/tr>
6\/3\/1982<\/td>Towed back to water by tugs.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/3-22\/4\/1982<\/td>Repaired at Amsterdam.<\/td><\/tr>
27\/7\/1984<\/td>Owner Sea Containers Ltd, London<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1985<\/td>Dover – Dunkerque route.<\/td><\/tr>
1986<\/td>Folkestone – Boulogne route.<\/td><\/tr>
27\/9\/1986<\/td>Laid up at Wellington dock.<\/td><\/tr>
31\/10\/1986<\/td>Dover – Calais route.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/11\/1986<\/td>Laid up at Wellington dock.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1\/1987<\/td>Fishguard – Rosslare route.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1987<\/td>Laid up at Wellington dock.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/4\/1987<\/td>Charter to Townsend Thoresen . Dover – Calais route.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/6\/1987<\/td>Laid up at river Fal after charter ending.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/8\/1987<\/td>Newhaven – Dieppe route.<\/td><\/tr>
21\/8\/1987<\/td>Laid up at river Fal<\/td><\/tr>
20\/10\/1987<\/td>Folkestone – Boulogne route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1988<\/td>Laid up at Chatham.<\/td><\/tr>
10-31\/3\/1988<\/td>Holyhead – Dun Laoghaire route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/4\/1988<\/td>Sold to Lindos Line SA, Pireaus, Greece.
New name Milos Express.<\/td><\/tr>
1988<\/td>Pireaus – Kynthnos – Serifos – Sifnos – Milos route and Sikinos – Kimolos – Folegrandros route.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/11\/1999<\/td>Sold to Minoan Flying Dolphins.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2000<\/td>Operated Hellas Ferries. New name Express Milos.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2003<\/td>Sold to Saos Shipping Company, Greece.
New name Nisos Lemnos.<\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/td>Samothrace – Lemnos – Lavrionroute.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/2004<\/td>Sold to scrap.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2004<\/td>New name Limon. Kingstown, St. Vincent & Grenadines flag, <\/td><\/tr>
28\/1\/2005<\/td>Beached at Alang, India.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to\u00a0Ship                                     History LOI Building contract Building started Keel laid 5\/3\/1969 Launch 9\/7\/1969 Sea trial Second sea trial 18\/7\/1969 Delivered to British Rail, London, England 31\/7\/1969 Dover – Bolougne route. 6\/10\/1969 Dover – Dunkerque route. 22\/10\/1970 Hit … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":29782,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29807","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29818,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29807\/revisions\/29818"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}