Efthymiadis Lines (Κ. Ευθυμιάδης)
Dear friends,
I thought it would be worthwhile opening a new thread for this well known and interesting Greek company, even though some of its vessels have their own threads under Historic cruise ships. It is certainly one of my favourite Greek companies.
This was a major ferry and later cruise operator of the 60's and 70's and apart from having a very interesting fleet of former French liners which mainly operated as ferries, they also pioneered the large tanker converted ferries and later the mass market cruising boom out of the UK when they chartered three of their ships to Clarksons for several years. It was a pity that a combination of the fuel crisis of the early 70's and the disastrous accident of the ill fated Heleanna put an abrupt end to their operatons.
Indeed they had similarities with their earlier Typaldos rivals in that they grew very quickly and became one of the largest Greek ferry and cruise operators of that time and unfortunately came to a sudden and sad end.
I will start by posting some of their earlier brochures from 1967/68 and 1970 which are mainly of their ferry services and will later post some of their cruising brochures.
Their conversions of Melina, Delos and Delphi were an exemplary transition of passenger/cargo to cruise ship conversion which would later be imitated by other Greek companies.
Hope you enjoy this fascinating and handsome fleet of vessels.
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