Atalante (1953) [Tahitien, Homericus]

[Ellinis]

From an old brochure, the deck plans of Atalante before reconstruction. Notice that in D Deck she had a small car garage. I do'nt know if that was actually used in her early days.

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[Henry Casciaro]

From an old brochure, the deck plans of Atalante before reconstruction. Notice that in D Deck she had a small car garage. I do'nt know if that was actually used in her early days.

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Aris, I think the garage was used for a time when she operated the ferry/cruise service in tandem with the Aphrodite and after 1979 on her own. Later she was just used for cruises.

I have attached some pages from her last Greek brochure in 1991! just before MSL retired her and also an interesting brochure of a charter to a uk company under the name LE LOTUS down to East Africa (26 Oct - 13 Nov 1990) but don't know whether this one way positioning cruise ever took place? Am sure you will find this interesting!

Best regards
Henry.
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[britanis]

the tender boat at the heck is sweet;-))))))))))))))))))
i have built this liner at a small model 10 cm ;-)))))))))

[Ellinis]

I have attached some pages from her last Greek brochure in 1991! just before MSL retired her and also an interesting brochure of a charter to a uk company under the name LE LOTUS down to East Africa (26 Oct - 13 Nov 1990) but don't know whether this one way positioning cruise ever took place? Am sure you will find this interesting

Ι have'nt heard of this charter. It seems peculiar to make just a one way trip to Mauritius. Maybe it was meant as a relocation voyage and then she was supposed to sail to South Africa for another charter. But the South African cruises surely did not happen. I presume that the trip to Mauritius was also dropped.
Lots of Greek cruises were sent to Durban for our winter season (Oceanos, Betsy Ross, Ocean Countess etc).

[Django]

Μια ακόμη φωτογραφία του Atalante από το 2001 και αυτή τη φορά, εδώ

[Ellinis]

Another aerial shot, dating from an article on her back in 1988.

In the article it mentions that she had a 170 strong crew (all Greeks) and that 95% of her clientelle were Europeans. In that specific trip 1/3 were Greeks and the rest Germans, Swiss and Italians.

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πηγη: Ναυτέλληνας 5/88

[T.S.S. APOLLON]

Το Αταλαντη στην Τηνο...
Φωτο ΛΕΑΝΔΡΟΣ

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[TSS QUEEN ANNA MARIA]

Oφείλω πάντως να πω ότι η τελευταία και δραστικότερη μετασκευή (τέλη 90) το αλοίωσε το καράβι και δημιουργήθηκε ένας όγκος που καμμία σχέση δεν είχε με τις αρμονικές γραμμές του επι Massageries Maritimes.

[Ellinis]

Και εγώ το ίδιο σκεφτόμουνα, σε κάτι από Ωκεανό έμοιαζε έτσι, αλλά στο πιο "μπαούλο".

[despo]

Πανέμορφη φωτογραφία φίλε Απόλλων. Πρόκειται για ένα πλοίο που εκπλήρωσε χωρις προβλήματα τη 'θητεία' του.