Compiegne

 

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This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the SNCF car ferry Compiegne.

 

Compiegne was built at Chargeurs Reunis Loire-Normandie, Grand Quevilly, in 1958 as the first French Dover-Calais car ferry. Original registered owners were Société Anonym de Gérance et d'Armement (SAGA). Compiegne also spent brief periods on Boulogne-Dover and Dieppe-Newhaven. In 1981 she was sold to Strintzis Lines and renamed Ionian Glory for the service Brindisi-Korfu-Igoumenitsa-Patras. Ionian Glory was sold by Strintzis in 1989, and subsequently served as Queen Vergina, Freedom I, Katerina, Al Amirah and Al Ameerah.

 

 

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Compiegne (SNCF: 1958-1981)

Ionian Glory (Strintzis: 1981-1989)

Queen Vergina (Vergina Lines: 1989-1990)

Freedom I (1990-1994)

 

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Compiegne

(SNCF: 1958-1981)

 

Compiegne was built at Chargeurs Reunis Loire-Normandie, Grand Quevilly, in 1958 as the first French Dover-Calais car ferry. Original registered owners were Société Anonym de Gérance et d'Armement (SAGA). Compiegne also spent brief periods on Boulogne-Dover and Dieppe-Newhaven. In 1981 she was sold to Strintzis Lines and renamed Ionian Glory for the service Brindisi-Korfu-Igoumenitsa-Patras. She was sold by Strintzis in 1989, and subsequently served as Queen Vergina, Freedom I, Katerina, Al Amirah and Al Ameerah.

 

 

Postcard of Compiegne at Calais.

 

Postcard of Compiegne at Calais.

 

Photograph of Compiegne at Dover.

 

Photograph of Compiegne at Dover.

Photo: © FotoFlite.

 

SNCF postcard of Compiegne at Calais.

 

Photograph of Compiegne.

 

 

 

 

 

Ionian Glory

(Strintzis: 1981-1989)

 

Ionian Glory was built as the Compiegne in 1958 by Chargeurs Reunis Loire-Normandie, Grand Quevilly, for Société Anonym de Gérance et d'Armement (SAGA). She was used on SNCF services between Dover and Calais/Boulogne. In 1981 she was sold to Strintzis Lines and renamed Ionian Glory for the service Brindisi-Korfu-Igoumenitsa-Patras. She was sold by Strintzis in 1989, and subsequently served as Queen Vergina, Freedom I, Katerina, Al Amirah and Al Ameerah.

 

 

Official Strintzis postcard of Ionian Glory.

 

Photograph of Ionian Glory.

© Foto Fleet File Rotterdam

Scan: Fakta om Fartyg.

 

 

 

 

 

Queen Vergina

(Vergina Lines: 1989-1990)

 

Photo: © Louis Bosschaart.

Scan: Fakta om Fartyg.

 

 

 

 

 

Freedom I

(1990-1994)

 

Photo: © Tomas Johannesson, Malmö 31/07/1990.

Scan: Fakta om Fartyg.

 

 

 

 

 

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