One Day In Piraeus (Is Like A Year In Any Other Place)/Floating Paradise Lost: ACHILLE LAURO, Part 5

[@sanbee4038]

First cruise was on the Epirotiki Pegasus in '87 Had a great time. It had just been fully refurbished and I loved the pool and hot tub area. Achille Lauro was my third cruise in '92. Fun times.

[@midshipcinema]

Very nice! Never got to sail in PEGASUS but did visit her on her christening day as SUNDANCER. ACHILLE remains one of my very favorite ships,. What was you second cruise ship.

[@PireasPiraeus]

One of the greatest Piraeus 90's videos :)

[@gregmerritt4278]

What a great video peter. I can't believe how many ships you got to see. Incredible

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much, Greg! There were so many ships still left to see back then. :)

[@danhartill465]

Fascinating trip into the past ! Thank goodness you documented this when you did , thank you very much !

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks for your kind comment, Dan. I hope to get more footage from Elefsina over the years up at some point.

[@fhwolthuis]

This is a great video. Somehow the sad fate of these ships and their back stories keep dragging me in, although you already know it will not end well for most of them. Thank you for sharing this! 👍🏻🍀

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much for watching and posting, Frank. So true about their endings. Ships die like we do but in a very unceremonious way most of the time.

[@fhwolthuis]

@@midshipcinema At least back in the day, behind the rust and possible failed rebuilds there was a beautiful and authentic ship hidden away. The ships built from the 80s onwards are just floating boxes with a lifespan of 20 years, if they are lucky...

[@midshipcinema]

@@fhwolthuis I completely agree! I made it a mission at the time to document all the vintage ships I could get access to. Sadly, almost all are gone.

[@realhousewivesteaandshade9223]

You are my new favorite channel! Bravo! I am a child of the mid-century ships, also from Los Angeles. I saw the Queen Mary pass my house on her last voyage to Long Beach in 1967. I was five years old.

[@midshipcinema]

That's so kind of you. And yay for L.A. and the grand old MARY. She needs lots of love right now. :)

[@donhazeldine6124]

Wonderful video. I love hearing the pronunciation and often find talking to ship enthusiasts the different, or perhaps, the correct version of how to say the words we see in books - such as Aliaga, Australis, Scythia etc. An excellent record Peter and thanks for spending those Drachmas for our enjoyment.

[@midshipcinema]

Don, how funny, as I was just admiring one of your fantastic images of the good old ENRICO C in Venice, then just happened to check in on this page. Thank you so much for your very kind comments here. I'm so happy you enjoyed this romp around Piraeus in what is now the fifth installment in my seemingly endless ACHILLE LAURO series. I have one more left before I put her to bed and move on to another dear old favorite. Many more Piraeus videos await, as well. Truly one of the most fascinating places on earth for the likes of us. Thanks again! Peter

[@shipspiros3766]

@@midshipcinema I Was Traveled With The M/S "ACHILLE LAURO" From Genova To Piraeus In June 1994!!! I See Lots Of Vessels In Piraeus: M/S "MERMOZ" (1957) Paquet Cruises M/S "PALLAS ATHENA" (1952) Epirotiki Lines M/S "MELODY" (1948) Owner ??? M/S "ARMENIYA" (1964) Black Sea Shipping M/S "ARCADIA" (1969) Golden Sun Cruises M/S "ODYSSEUS" (1962) Epirotiki Lines M/S "OLYMPIC" (1966) Epirotiki Lines M/S "MILOS EXPRESS" (1969) Lindos Lines M/S "APOLLO EXPRESS 2" (1972) Ventouris Sea Lines M/S "WORLD RENAISSANCE" (1966) Epirotiki Lines M/S "APOLLON" (1973) Epirotiki Lines M/S "JASON" (1965) Epirotiki Lines M/S "STELLA OCEANIS" (1965) Sun Lines M/S "STELLA SOLARIS" (1953) Sun Lines M/S "FIESTA MARINA" (1956) Fiestamarina Cruises M/S "SEA PRINCE" (1967) Sunshine Cruises M/S "PEGASUS" (1975) Epirotiki Lines M/S "LA PALMA" (1953) Intercruise M/S "VERGINA" (1964) Vergina Lines M/S "PANAGIA" (1961) Bordum Lines He Entered In Piraeus The M/S Odysseus He Horns The Achille Lauro And Me I Say: *Horn Of Achille Lauro* ME: 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@cryptosquirrel8914]

I worked a few years on Pacific Princess...I think I was onboard during that arrival filming... Breaks my heart to know she went to scrap. I thank you for filming all these ships. Classic ships that are no more.

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much. She looked so majestic coming in that day. Miss that ship.

[@IKhanNot]

Nice. Had my attention the whole time.

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you.

[@mrslinarcos]

Another hit out of the ballpark Peter Knego, you got to visit three ships; all classics. I enjoyed the visits you made. I know more will be coming, thank you so much for getting the interiors of the ships you did get to visit.

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you, Deborah! :)

[@mrslinarcos]

@@midshipcinema 🙂🙂🏝🏝 you're very welcome.

[@eladbendor]

Wow! What a fantastic video! I didn’t want it to end. So nostalgic... 1994 was the year of my first two cruises, my parents and late aunt took me when I was just 7 years old. I remember it very clear. In fact, that year we docked twice in Piraeus: first time in July onboard the m.v Odessa Song, and later in September , just one month before this footage was taken, onboard the lovely ss Sapphire Seas (ex. Emerald Seas). My late and beloved father took me early on deck to see the vast selection of cruise ship on port that day. I remember spotting the Pacific Princess too (again just one month prior to this footage). I really miss my beloved aunt and father from whom I inherited my passion and love to passenger and cruise ships, and I really miss those tiny little ships of the past. Having back to Piraeus on future occasions, on F/b Nissos Kypros, m.s Rotterdam v, and m.s Zuiderdam - it was always pure fun and emotion.

[@midshipcinema]

Sounds like you got to experience quite a few nice ships. Wish I had a chance to visit or sail in NISSOS KYPROS. I did buy some nice chairs from her when she was at Alang. Very modern ship for her time. I have some footage of her arriving in Limassol in the prior video, ACHILLE LAURO, Part Four.

[@eladbendor]

midshipcentury your videos are certainly in my list for tonight;) thank you !!

[@Aviatsionne]

This was a stunning blast down memory lane. Those of us who remember THIS Greece are truly fortunate, there was something so magical about it. Thank you for sharing such beautiful footage, I instantly went back to my childhood summer memories.

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you. I am so glad I was able to experience this time and place. I only wish I started a few years earlier than my first trek there in 1992.

[@ferriesoftasmania]

Wow, really interesting video!! Sad thing is pretty much every ship in the video is gone now. Of particular interest to me was the Adriatic Star @17:22 who was the 1959 built Princess of Tasmania, who went on until 2005.

[@yatessmyrna]

I love your videos. Thank you.

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you so much. I'm so happy to have people like you who appreciate them.

[@simmerdown9903]

Great video!

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you. :)

[@thomasnicolai-vargas5386]

So many great images of vintage passenger ships. What an amazing day that must have been.

[@midshipcinema]

One of the best ever, Tom! Especially when we got to sail off in the beautiful ACHILLE LAURO at the end. So lucky to have experienced all those ships when it was still possible. :)

[@TheClive1949]

A fabulous feast of glorious cruise ships, the kind of ships that I loved (still love and miss). How very fortunate some of us are to have been in Piraeus on similar such days when it was busy with such fascinating vessels. I miss those days and those ships so much.

[@neilbullock9117]

Clive Harvey perfectly sums up my feelings of this fantastic film which is so full of nostalgia. I too was lucky to extensively visit Piraeus in 1979 and 1980 and for a final time in 1984. How I wish I could go back in time although I will always treasure those memories. Thanks so much to Peter Knego!

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you, Clive! Seems like yesterday when we could do things like this and capture so many beauties. As you say, how fortunate we were. :)

[@midshipcinema]

@@neilbullock9117 Thank you so much, Neil! :)

[@theclockperson1046]

Finally been waiting for weeks. Loved it!!!

[@SdH76zhEU]

I almost had tears watching this! So many memmories travelling from Switzland to Crete, and love this old Ships! I think there all gone by now!

[@PawelMagnum]

Very interesting!!!

[@tropicalblum]

I traveled on the Stella Oceanis with my family in 1981, great memories

[@midshipcinema]

Beautiful little ship. :)

[@carlsimpson4875]

Beautiful lines even the merchant ships have more sheer than the floating boxes they produce today. I worked with some of the old timers who helped build the Windsor Castle in my home town my father served his time at Cammel Lairds.

[@thechosenone9965]

6:40 Have you ever visited or sailed on her? And if you have would you make a full feature video on her?

[@midshipcinema]

On which ship?

[@thechosenone9965]

@@midshipcinema MV Panagia

[@midshipcinema]

I climbed aboard and crossed on her to get to KYDON in 1997. MEDOUSA/PANAGIA was in terrible condition and I didn't get footage, other than exteriors.

[@thechosenone9965]

@@midshipcinema where did this take place?

[@midshipcinema]

@@thechosenone9965 Avlis shipyard in Chalkis.

[@skylineXpert]

Yes ships do reach the end of their ropes 30 years or so. But It feels sad to see...

[@seanpruitt6801]

I would absolutely die to see all of these ships today. It’s such a shame most of them are gone 😔

[@carlsimpson4875]

Me to i actually have a house in Greece and plan to make a trip to Piraeus still a good few old ships parked up and fully restored Liberty ship.

[@seanpruitt6801]

@@carlsimpson4875 have a great time. I would love to see some old liners.

[@ganahatem7509]

do you have any video about m v atalante from limassol please.

[@midshipcinema]

Volume Four of this series has ATALANTE during my first visit to her. I shot more footage over the years and will probably do a feature on her but at the moment, the older ships are getting very limited interest and views.

[@michaelashcraft8569]

November, 1973, the U.S. Destroyer DDG-5 docked in Piraeus with two other Navy Ships, I loved the place, people were very friendly to us, and, the local food was GREAT, it's where I first tasted Oozo, and, the last!

[@nickkotsoglou7478]

Great video! Could you please tell me the title of the piece starting at 14:50? Thank you

[@midshipcinema]

Hi NIck, thanks for watching and thank you for your question. That particular song is "Concerto Grosso" by William van de Crommert, available through the Artist.io music licensing site.

[@nickkotsoglou7478]

@@midshipcinema thank you very much!

[@drdata1967]

Peter if you were to make your for sale videos available in some way I could access them without a DVD player I would buy them tomorrow.

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks so much -- with my not being monetized by KZbin, despite qualifying for over a year, I may take them down and offer them on the MidShipCentury website as downloads just so I can continue to afford making them. I do have the three Alang videos available there as downloads, in case you have seen them yet. Please check at www.midshipcentury.com and thank you so much for the nice compliment! :)

[@lesmoor001]

glorious VHS days

[@vladimirlenin852]

27:55 is that the Panagia Tinou?

[@thesketchydude1315]

So many Beautiful old Japanese Ferries...shame most of them are gone now, they were legendary this whole video is a Treasure Trove for me and my Greek Friends, I hope you don't mind if I share this! also Incredible footage of Armeniya (wish we knew how she was going to look...my guess is similar if not the same to what was done to her sister Bashkiriya Funny that Arkadia is pretty much one of the only ships in this footage I can think of that still "exists" so to speak...though sadly in bad shape in the Philippines under government ownership after her last owners did some less than legal dealings 4:46 ah the beautiful Rethimnon...Formerly the Central No.5, her owners only lasted ONE year...then kaput, all 5 of their ships sold off, two To Algeria (long careers with no known incidents), two to Greece (Rethimnon and her Sister Candia), and the last one...the Central No.6 which eventually became the Poor Tampomas II and met a Violent and Fiery end in 1981 with upwards of 440 dead 15:54 my poor poor Sea Venture...I could rattle on for hours about her...me and her owner Taki are good friends and seeing her like that makes both of us quite sad, so much potential...all squandered because the shipyard chosen to do the work was quite incompetent (did not follow the plans and led to the ship being overly top heavy) and also unsafe...burned partly not too long before you filmed this and that was Takis last straw, then he later came back to the project a few years later with the intent of operating her as "Seawind Royale" for his Seawind brand, even made her the logo of the company...but alas, that was not to be of course...he tried many MANY more times over the years but in the end she of course...as you said...died at Aliaga like so many others 16:19 that's another failed project...ironically RIGHT NEXT to her former sister, the unrecognizably rebuilt "Dame M", intent was to rebuild them both the same but...from what I understand the company ran out of money to do the work and she sat rotting for a few years before heading to the breakers, shame too...those Hankyu ferries seem to be pretty damn immortal, just look at the ones that went to the Philippines! (oldest JUST got sold for scrap and she was built in 1984) 16:41 the old Sassnitz, East German ferry rebuilt as Silver Paloma, then left to rot pretty much as seen here as "Megistanas" (I forget when she was scrapped) 16:55 Poor Italia...a PERFECT Italian vessel in every way in my eyes :( 18:26 Oh for gods sake...thats Popi P, so SO much insurance fraud and subterfuge in her career haha, she was a tiny Danish ferry called "Fynshav" originally, then Sold to various owners never really operating again until 1992 when sold as Star one...cute little cruise ship for Saronic cruises, had brochures made in everything and was completed...but then "mysteriously" somebody broke into her and Smashed up her pumps causing her to sink, then the wreck was raised in 1994/5 and began rebuilding to resemble the VERY strange ship "John P" but smaller, of course that never happened and she was scrapped in 2002 I don't suppose you ever encountered Tony Lelakis "Money Pit" in the form of Regent Sky?...looks like a Giant Red Brick in the middle of the Bay? haha

[@midshipcinema]

thanks so much for this incredibly detailed message! So glad you like the video -- it was quite a day. I did get REGENT SKY in Chalkis a few years later. Thank you for the fascinating back stories on these ships. I'm not as well versed with some of the ferries as I am the cruise ships, so I really appreciate what you have written. :)

[@thesketchydude1315]

@@midshipcinema no problem! (I'd love to see your footage of Regent Sky one day, much like My Sea Venture there is Very little Footage of her, just mostly pictures) I wish there was footage of Sea Venture when she was Still Taygetos, but I know for a fact that there is none of that, and barely any photos either (1979 to about 1984 is how long she was in that state before Taki Purchased her) I could (as I stated earlier) Rattle on for hours about Greek Ferries, they quite fascinate me, from how some are so oddly elusive so to speak, or how some have borderline fictional sounding histories (exceedingly long service lives, and surviving some pretty crazy incidents for example) once again thank you for posting these videos...they are just incredible!

[@mohammednadeemanwar2213]

Beautiful little ships with elegant style. 6 minutes in looks like SS Norway style deck addition but only more sympathetic scale. What is the piano music 6 minutes into video. Today everything's humongous monstrosities, only saving grace to QM2 is she is a Ocean Liner.

[@midshipcinema]

Thanks for watching and posting. Alas, I don't have my music list handy but it was a tune I downloaded from Artlist.com, which licenses music.

[@Queenmary1936]

So many memories of Piraeus ......the golden age of cruising when one took a small intimate ship......I''ve been on so many beautiful ships in my time. Would love to share with you my "list" which starts with the Matsonia and Lurline, thence to the Queens Mary and Elizabeth, Caronia....on and one. Let me know where to send you my historical list of ships I've sailed on! Yasou! Mark

[@midshipcinema]

Yasou, Mark and thank you for sharing here! You can send your list to [e-mail]. Some fantastic ships you mention! Tikanis!

[@foxstarline4997]

5:25 The Love Boat (Sings theme song)

[@CruiseTT]

Your legally required to hum the Love boat theme tune everytime you see the Pacific Princess.

[@RailPreserver2K]

It sad because the love boat its now gone same with most if the vintage passenger ships

[@highlysuggestible861]

So much of the world I've never seen and perhaps never will! What a terrible thought!

[@velezdragon3574]

La palma looks like oceanos is that her sister ship?

[@midshipcinema]

Close. They were both early 1950s French combi-liners with many similar features but were in slightly different classes. :)

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

These ships are so much more beautiful than the wallowing whales that pass as cruise ships today.

[@robertetchell7804]

The Sundancer did not ranground in Alaska in 1984 she Ranaground in Duncan Bay on VANCOUVER island on her way to Alaska she ranaround north of Campbell River BC she was towed to VANCOUVER harbour and during expo 86 she was a hotel ship in New Westminster. BC on the Fraser river I saw her there

[@midshipcinema]

Good catch, Robert! I meant to say on an Alaskan cruise and should have stuck to the script. Indeed, she was only 60 miles from Vancouver...

[@dandrakenholt5455]

Peter! Do you know where I can get photos of the scrapping of Moby King in 2002?????

[@midshipcinema]

Maybe try requesting on one of the Facebook ship pages?

[@dandrakenholt5455]

@@midshipcinema I have tried!

[@TATICAL_R]

2:38

[@duskbatrabbit1199]

greta approves

[@cyrodosanjos9411]

Oi sao belíssimo navios! Parece q tinham uma beleza unica hj em dia os navios parecem caixas de sapato ou prédios nao parecem ser "NAVIOS"

[@darploin5071]

Those open top lifeboats would never cut the mustard

[@darploin5071]

What was it like it took a 100 drop MA to make $1

[@odineigomes8399]

Olha o navio ocean pricess

[@TATICAL_R]

31:18

[@Hxtiaf]

I Once Work To The Scrapping Of The Torn Castle I Cant remember The Date And When Bc I was 53 Years Old now

[@midshipcinema]

OK

[@MrMartime2009]

19:00

[@MrSubidu]

:-)))

[@motaz1975]

why where they so fussy about simply filming ships?

[@midshipcinema]

Greek Naval base.

[@motaz1975]

@@midshipcinema oh ok, that makes sense.

[@무명작가의인생강의]

저런 소형 크루즈선은 국내선인가

[@okn0tok]

😂😂😂 Odysseus.....

[@midshipcinema]

Haha. Yes, I chose the Greek pronunciation versus the American. When in Greece.... :)

[@velezdragon3574]

Mr erpkini sadly died

[@pavlosg.galiatsatos1984]

Great video !!!

[@midshipcinema]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it!