{"id":45,"date":"2017-10-14T05:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T05:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:07:25","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back to Ship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
24\/12\/1975<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Start of Production<\/td><\/tr>
30\/5\/1977<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
19\/4\/1978<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
27\/6\/1979<\/td>Delivered to Compagnia Italiana Di Navigazione (Tirrenia) , Italy<\/td><\/tr>
7\/1979<\/td>Genoa – Porto Torres route<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
1987-88<\/td>Lengthened 12 meters.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>.<\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/td>Charter to Adriatica , Bari – Durazzo route.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
2005<\/td>Refurbished<\/td><\/tr>
2009-10<\/td>Genoa – Olbia – Arbatax route<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
10\/10\/2010<\/td>Laid up at Crotone.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/2011<\/td>Sold to Adria Ferries Ltd, Limassol, Cypern. Bari – Durres Route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2011<\/td>New name<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2011<\/td>New name AF Francesca. Ancona – Durres and Bari – Durres routes.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2011<\/td>Refurbished at Tuzla.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
6\/1\/2012<\/td>Hit a hard to pier due to heavy wind at Ancona. Have 3 meter hole in hull.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
3\/2015<\/td>New side sponsons added.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
13\/5\/2015<\/td>Fire in engineroom near Bari. no any injures. Back in service for a few weeks.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
14\/3\/2026<\/td>Beached in Aliaga, Turkey.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Scrapped.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back to Ship                                     History 24\/12\/1975 Building contract Start of Production 30\/5\/1977 Keel laid 19\/4\/1978 Launch 27\/6\/1979 Delivered to Compagnia Italiana Di Navigazione (Tirrenia) , Italy 7\/1979 Genoa – Porto Torres route 1987-88 Lengthened 12 meters. . 2003 Charter … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44550,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/44550"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}