ANTONIOS M (ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣ Μ)
-Boufis Shipping Company
ex-NIKOLAOS A (ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΣ Α) for Anatoliotakis NE (1979-2022)
Built in 1979 (age 46). Registered in Piraeus. Current line: None (under refit in Perama)
The landing craft ANTONIOS M was built in 1979 in Greece. She was delivered as the NIKOLAOS A to Anatoliotakis NE, which deployed her on the Preveza-Aktion line on the Ambracian Gulf. She underwent a first conversion in Perama in 1986, followed by a second one in 1993, whereupon she was lengthened, heightened, and her bridge was modified. She operated on the Preveza-Aktion line until 2002, when the service between both ports was discontinued following the completion of the construction of an undersea road tunnel. As a result, she moved to the Rion-Antirrion line, where she remained until 2021. In 2022 she was sold to Boufis Shipping Company and she was renamed ANTONIOS M. She is currently undergoing a major refit in Perama.
PHOTOS (2021, 2022):
The NIKOLAOS A seen resting in Antirrion (9/2021).
The NIKOLAOS A seen resting in Antirrion (9/2021).
The NIKOLAOS A seen resting in Antirrion (9/2021).
The NIKOLAOS A docked in Antirrion (9/2021).
The NIKOLAOS A docked in Antirrion (9/2021).
The NIKOLAOS A docked in Antirrion (9/2021).
The NIKOLAOS A seen in Antirrion (9/2021).
The NIKOLAOS A seen in Antirrion (9/2021).
The NIKOLAOS A seen in Antirrion (9/2021).
The NIKOLAOS A in Antirrion, in what turned out to be my final picture of the ship under Anatoliotakis NE, as she was sold the following year to Boufis Shipping Company as the ANTONIOS M (9/2021).
My first picture of the ship as the ANTONIOS M, as she is seen docked in Rion, a few days after her sale to Boufis Shipping Company (10/2022).
The ANTONIOS M docked in Rion (10/2022).
The ANTONIOS M docked in Rion (10/2022).
The ANTONIOS M seen in Rion, a few days before she headed to Perama in order to begin her refit under hew new owner (10/2022).