El. Venizelos (ship)

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El. Venizelos in the port of Souda, Greece in 2018
History
Greece
Name	El. Venizelos
Namesake	Eleftherios Venizelos
Owner	ANEK Lines, Chania, Greece
Operator	ANEK Lines
Port of registry	Chania,  Greece
Route	Piraeus - Souda
Ordered	1979
Builder	Stocznia im. Komuny Paryskiej, Gdynia, Poland (hull)
Yard number	B494 / 3
Launched	28 October 1984
Completed	1992 at Perama, Piraeus, Greece.
Maiden voyage	June 1992
In service	1992
Identification	Call sign 5BYX4 IMO: 7907673 MMSI: 209262000[1]
Status	in service
General characteristics
Type	Ro-pax ferry
Tonnage	38,261 gt Summer DWT: 5351 t[1]
Length	175.5 m (576 ft)
Beam	28.5 m (94 ft)
Height	6.7 m (22 ft)
Draught	6.4 m (21 ft)
Ramps	Two for vehicles one for passengers.
Speed	22 knots

The MS El. Venizelos is a Greek ferry, and 2nd oldest ship in the ANEK Lines fleet. It is a motor Ro-Ro/Passenger ferryboat, built in 1984 at Stocznia im. Komuny Paryskiej, Gdynia, Poland as Stena Polonica and completed in 1992 in Perama, Piraeus, Greece as El Venizelos. It is one of 4 sister ships, Stena Vision and Stena Spirit, both owned by Stena Lines, and the unfinished Lelakis' Regent Sky.^[2] It can hold a total of 2300 passenger and 850 cars and has 1606 beds for passengers. It has four Zgoda-Sulzer 16ZV 40/48 diesel engines,^[3] with combined power of 34,130 kW and can reach a speed of 22 knots.It also has WiFi Internet, two restaurants. two bars (one cafe bar and one piano bar), an amusement arcade, a casino, a church, a duty-free shop, a playground, a hospital, escalators, elevators, air-conditioning and a swimming pool and its cabins can be either "lux", 2-bed, 4-bed, or for the disabled.^[4] It is named after Eleftherios Venizelos, a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece and has Cretan origins. On 30 March El Venizelos laid-up since three days in Piraeus Anchorage had cases with the COVID-19. On 2 April at nine pm El Venizelos moored at the Piraeus Port. From 25 April 2020 to 13 April 2023 she was laid up at Perama.