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Christina O is a private motor yacht that once belonged to billionaire Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis. At 99.13 metres long, she was the 59th largest yacht in the world as of 2022. At 99.13 metres long, she was the 59th largest yacht in the world as of 2022.
On 14 June 2023, the Adriana, [a] an Italy-bound fishing trawler smuggling migrants, sank in international waters in the part of the Mediterranean known as the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Pylos, Messenia, Greece. [6] [7] [8] The boat had a capacity of 400 people, [9] carried an estimated 400 to 750 migrants, [10] [11] mostly from Pakistan ...
Skorpios or Scorpios (Greek: Σκορπιός, pronounced [skorˈpços]) is a private island in the Ionian Sea off the western coast of Greece and just to the east of the island of Lefkada. The 2011 census reported a population of five inhabitants. Administratively it is part of the municipality of Meganisi in Lefkada regional unit.
Sold to Greece as Toula N 1965: Lycia: 1954: 1954–1965: Cargo ship: 3,543: Served on Great Lakes trade in 1964. Sold to Greece a year later and renamed Flora N: Saxonia Carmania: 1954: 1954–1962 1962–1973: Canadian service Cruise ship: 21,637 21,370
Hellenic Seaways is a Greece-based ferry company founded in 1984. [1] Hellenic Seaways is a subsidiary of Attica Group along with Blue Star Ferries and Superfast Ferries . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hellenic Seaways .
Greece is a maritime nation by tradition, as shipping is arguably the oldest form of occupation of the Greeks and has been a key element of Greek economic activity since ancient times. [3] Today, shipping is the country's most important industry worth $21.9 billion in 2018.
On 21 May 1864 the Ionian Islands officially reunited with Greece. [5] Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark was born in Corfu in 1921 and grew up to become Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In 1923, following orders by Mussolini, the Italians temporarily occupied Corfu.
She was used as a car passenger ferry between Italy-Greece-Cyprus-Israel. She was later used for cruising. Her last years with her sister ship used as an accommodation ship in Scotland and scrapped in 1976. Argonaut (1964–2003) Argonaut was built in 1929 as the yacht Orion. She was bought and rebuilt as a cruise ship for Epirotiki.