MS Kriti I

{{short description|Greek ship}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox ship  |infobox_caption= |display_title=MS ''Kriti I'' |section1={{Infobox ship/image | image = 20080814-Piraeus-Kriti1.jpg | image_caption = ''Kriti I'' at Piraeus on August 14, 2008. }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/career | hide_header = | name = *''New Suzuran'' (1979–1996) *''Kriti I'' (1996–2025) | namesake = Island of Crete | owner = *1979–1996: Shin-Nipponkai Ferry *1996–2025: ANEK Lines | operator = *1979–1996: Shin-Nipponkai Ferry *1996–2013: ANEK Lines *2013–2013: Go in Sardinia *2013–2016: ANEK Lines *2016–2016: Blue Star Ferries *2017–2019: Grandi Navi Veloci *2019–2025: ANEK Lines | registry = 1996–2025: Chania, {{flag|Greece}} | route = | ordered = | builder = Koyo Dockyard, Japan | original_cost = | yard_number = 828 | laid_down = 23 November 1978 | launched = 22 February 1979 | completed = 19 May 1979 | christened = | acquired = | maiden_voyage = 1979 | in_service = *1979 | out_of_service = 2024 | identification = *{{IMO number|7814046}} *Call sign: SZRD *{{MMSI|237022000}} | fate = Scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey in 2025 | status = | notes = }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics | hide_header = | header_caption = | class = | type = Ro-pax ferry | tonnage = *{{GT|27,239}} *{{DWT|5398 }} | length = {{convert|191.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | beam = {{convert|29|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | height = | draught = | draft = {{convert|6.4|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | depth = | decks = | deck_clearance = | ramps = | power = * 2 Mitsubishi-MAN *combined 16V52/55KW | propulsion = *2 propellers *3 bow thrusters *1 stern thruster | speed = Service {{convert|23|kn}}<ref name=FoF>{{cite web |title=Kriti I |url=http://www.ferry-site.dk/ferry.php?id=7814046&lang=en |website=The Ferry Site |accessdate=26 June 2020}}</ref> | capacity = *1,500 passengers *468 berths *650 cars *1,700 lane meters<ref name=FoF /> | crew = | notes = }} }}

'''MS ''Kriti I''''' was a RO/PAX ship owned and operated by ANEK Lines. The ship was built in 1979 at Koyo Dockyard, Japan and her original name was ''New Suzuran''.

==Service history== thumb|250x250px|''Kriti I'' as ''New Suzuran'' left|thumb|''Kriti I'' ''New Suzuran'', with her sister ship ''New Yukari'', were bought from ANEK Lines in 1996. The constructions became in Perama, Greece in 1996. After the construction the new ''Kriti I'', with her sister ship ''Kriti II'', served on the Patras–Igoumenitsa–Corfu–Trieste route for many years. After the arrivals of the newest ships of ANEK Lines, the Japanese ferries ''Lefka Ori'' and ''Sophocles Venizelos'', ''Kriti I'' with her sister ship ''Kriti II'' were transferred to the Piraeus–Heraklion route. ''Kriti I'' also performed many replacements for other ships on other routes such as the Patras–Igoumenitsa–Corfu–Venice route. In 2013, the ship was chartered to an Italian company and operated on the Livorno–Olbia route but was unsuccessful due to mechanical damage. The ship, after the chartering, returned to the Piraeus–Heraklion route but again was chartered, this time to a Russian company. The ship went to Novorossiysk but never entered service and returned to Piraeus. The ship was laid-up many times and eventually, in mid-2016 Blue Star Ferries chartered it for the Piraeus–Dodecanese route for summer months only. Eventually in 2017 ''Kriti I'' was again chartered by Grandi Navi Veloci. In Italy the ship operated on the Civitavecchia–Termini Imerese route with {{ship|MS|Splendid||2}}. The ship was chartered for three years and in December 2019 ''Kriti I'' returned to Piraeus and has been laid-up since then at Perama. After a refit ''Kriti I'' re-entered service on the Piraeus-Heraklion route. The ship was laid up in Elefsina in 2024 and got scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey in 2025

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