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Nesklau
First Class Passenger
Member # 3310

posted 09-08-2002 03:50 PM

Can somebody tell me what happened to 50000 grt. ship which was been built for Antonios Lelakis to become Regent Sky ?
The delivery was scheduled for 2001 and the last owner was National Bank of Greece.

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Italian Cruiser
First Class Passenger
Member # 1684

posted 09-08-2002 04:41 PM

The supposed Regent Sky, a converted ferry originally owned by Stena Lines, was never completed. The half finished ship is currently laid up in Greece, near Piraeus.

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cruiseny
First Class Passenger
Member # 2928

posted 09-08-2002 06:49 PM

Still sitting there... We have a long and extensive discussion of this ship on here somewhere, I will try a search to find it later.

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Rex
First Class Passenger
Member # 1113

posted 09-08-2002 10:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Cruiseny:
Still sitting there... We have a long and extensive discussion of this ship on here somewhere, I will try a search to find it later.

I think I asked about this ship ages ago. Her sisters are now Greek ferries, no?

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rd77
First Class Passenger
Member # 2117

posted 09-09-2002 05:00 AM

One of them is, yes (the EL. VENIZELOS of ANEK lines of Greece). That was one of the two ships that Stena didn´t want anymore (REGENT SKY being the other. The two ships that were delivered to Stena are still with them as STENA GERMANICA and STENA SCANDINAVICA.

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cruiseny
First Class Passenger
Member # 2928

posted 09-09-2002 01:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Cruiseny:
Still sitting there... We have a long and extensive discussion of this ship on here somewhere, I will try a search to find it later.

http://www.travelserver.net/travelpage/ubb-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=003490

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Britanis
First Class Passenger
Member # 2912

posted 09-09-2002 03:33 PM

Star Cruises recently revealed in a statement that they were planning a 46,000 ton; 4,000 passenger cruise ship for the Chinese market. Could they take over and complete Regent Sky instead? She's a bit smaller than the on Star was/is planning, but there is the advantage of her being mostly complete, and I imagine the asking price must be quite low by now.

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 09-09-2002 05:20 PM

For some reason I thought that the regent Sky was supposed to have beeen around 50,000 GRT. Maybe I am wrong about this one. But I still can not see how one could fit 4000 pax on a 46,000 GRT ship. Is that a typo Britanis, or just some pecuilarity to the Chinese market??

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Italian Cruiser
First Class Passenger
Member # 1684

posted 09-10-2002 10:04 AM

You can't put 4.000 passengers on a ship. Have you considerated the number of lifeboats that it should require ? Even if it was possible also the Voyager of the Seas will be overcrowded with so many persons onboard...

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Patrick
First Class Passenger
Member # 364

posted 09-10-2002 01:11 PM

I don't think this would work out well. The ship would be more than crowded with 4000 pax.
Concerning finishing of the REGENT SKY: This won't be that easy since the engines and main parts of generators and so on did all disappear. Nobody really wants to know what happened with them...
About the EL VENIZELOS: The ship is currently up for sale.

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Britanis
First Class Passenger
Member # 2912

posted 09-11-2002 04:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Thad:For some reason I thought that the regent Sky was supposed to have beeen around 50,000 GRT. Maybe I am wrong about this one. But I still can not see how one could fit 4000 pax on a 46,000 GRT ship. Is that a typo Britanis, or just some pecuilarity to the Chinese market??

Whoops, that was a typo, Regent Sky was indeed supposed to be 50,000 gross tons. But, the ship Star was/is discussing (I say discussing, not planning because few thing at Star actually make it to that stage) is indeed 46,000 tons AND 4,000 pax- so with Regent Sky they could get one extra ton per passenger. 4,000 pax on a 50,000 ton ship can be done, they probably shouldn't, but they can. The 48,000 ton Imperator carried just over 4,000, which I think may be a record capacity for a passenger ship.

quote:
Originally posted by Patrick:Concerning finishing of the REGENT SKY: This won't be that easy since the engines and main parts of generators and so on did all disappear. Nobody really wants to know what happened with them...

Does this mean the engines and generators wer stolen? Or were they secretly sold by regency, the shipyard, or one of the ship's later owners to erase some debt? Or am I reading too much into this?

I hope you don't mind, but what is the El Venizelos? I don't think I ever heard of that one, is she of a similiar size to Regent Sky?

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cruiseny
First Class Passenger
Member # 2928

posted 09-12-2002 12:20 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Britanis:
I hope you don't mind, but what is the El Venizelos? I don't think I ever heard of that one, is she of a similiar size to Regent Sky?

Regent Sky's sister ship, with Anek Lines in Greece.

The other two are with Stena, who originally ordered them.

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