MV Fundy Rose is a RORO passenger ship owned by the Government of Canada, which entered service with Bay Ferries in 2015 between Saint John, New Brunswick, and Digby, Nova Scotia, replacing the MV Princess of Acadia. The vessel is formerly owned by Attica Group based in Athens, Greece, and was operated under the name Blue Star Ithaki by their subsidiary company Blue Star Ferries between Piraeus, Syros, Tinos and Mykonos under the Greek flag.
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History
Blue Star Ithaki was ordered on 30 November 1998 by Strintzis Lines and was to be constructed by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering based in South Korea, the ships keel was laid on 1 October 1999 and was launched by 24 November 1999. She was then handed over to Blue Star Ferries on 12 May 2000 and entered service between Rafina and Syros, Paros, Naxos, Santorini later that month.
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Sale to Government of Canada
In October 2014, Blue Star Ithaki was sold to the Canadian government. The ship has replaced Bay Ferries' former ferry, Princess of Acadia. Blue Star Ithaki began her last journey on the Piraeus-Syros-Tinos-Mykonos route on 25 October 2014. The vessel's new name Fundy Rose was announced in May 2015. Fundy Rose was unveiled to the public in both Saint John and Digby in mid-July 2015, and entered service by the end of the month.
The new name was taken from The Bay of Fundy, where she operates, and from Rose Fortune, a woman born into slavery in the U.S. She escaped with her family arriving in Annapolis Royal (an historic village close to Digby) in the 1780s as a ten-year-old girl.
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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