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Aeolos Kenteris II underway in 2007
History
Name	(2001–2007): Aeolos Express II (2007–present): Aeolos Kenteris II
Owner	(2001–2015): Maritime Co. of Lesvos (NEL Lines) (2015–present): Seized / Piraeus Port Authority (unpaid debts)
Operator	(2001–2011): NEL Lines (2008): Namma Lines (Charter)
Port of registry	Mytilene, Greece
Route	Piraeus – Cyclades (various routes) Safaga – Jeddah (Red Sea charter) Lavrion – Inter-Cyclades lifeline routes
Ordered	1999
Builder	Alstom Leroux Naval (Lorient/Saint-Malo, France)
Yard number	826
Launched	4 March 2001
Completed	11 July 2001
Acquired	2001
Maiden voyage	2001
In service	2001
Out of service	2011
Identification	IMO number: 9234757 Call sign: SXXF MMSI number: 239788000
Fate	Seized by port authorities; laid-up; scrapped in Aliağa, 2026
Notes	Named after Aeolus and Kostas Kenteris
General characteristics
Class & type	Corsaire 11500 (STX Alstom Leroux Naval)
Tonnage	5,364 GT 450 DWT
Length	103.0 m (337 ft 11 in)
Beam	15.7 m (51 ft 6 in)
Draft	2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Installed power	4 × SEMT Pielstick 20 PA6 B6 V STC diesel engines Total power: 32,400 kW (43,449 hp)
Propulsion	4x Waterjets (Kamewa)
Speed	36.0 knots (service) 40.0 knots (max)
Capacity	800 passengers 190 cars

Aeolos Kenteris II was a ferry, owned by the Greek shipping company NEL Lines. Built in France in 2001, the vessel was part of a trio of highspeed sister ships commissioned by NEL Lines to operate in the Aegean.

Service

The ferry, the second high-speed vessel commissioned by NEL Lines, was launched on 4 March 2001 at the Chantiers Alstom Leroux Naval shipyards in Saint-Malo with the name Aeolos Express II and delivered on 23 July to the Greek company, for which it began service two days later on the connections between Piraeus and the islands of Kea, Paros, Naxos, Ios and Santorini and those of Syros, Tinos, Mykonos and Amorgos. However, after just three years of service, at the end of the 2004 summer season the ferry was already laid up together with Aeolos Express in Lavrion due to excessive operating costs and some engine problems, and was then transferred back on 11 May 2006 to the Perama shipyards, where she remained until 2007, when she was re-engined and renamed Aeolos Kenteris II on 31 March 2007. After the technical stop, the ferry then returned to service for the summer season on the routes between Piraeus, Paros and Naxos, where she had been missing for three years.

On 22 April 2008, while undergoing evolution manoeuvres in Piraeus during sea trials in preparation for her return to service in the summer, the ferry collided with Rodanthi, suffering minor damage to the waterjets, which were quickly repaired, allowing the vessel to return to service in May on the routes between Piraeus, Syros, Tinos and Mykonos, where she operated until July, when she was chartered to the Egyptian Namma Lines and used on the routes between Safaga and Jeddah. At the end of the summer season she returned to the Aegean, where she replaced Panagia Tinou on the inter-Cycladic routes between Lavrion, Kea, Kythnos, Andros, Tinos, Syros, Paros, Naxos, Donoussa, Amorgos, Koufonisia, Schoinoussa, Irakleia, Folegandros, Sikinos, Ios, Thirasia, Santorini and Anafi. On 29 August 2011, when she was transferred to the route of her fleetmate Aqua Spirit, the ferry was decommissioned in Ampelakia and shortly thereafter seized due to the failure to pay off debts at the time of the bankruptcy of NEL Lines in 2015. On 26 June 2026, after eleven years in a state of abandonment, the ferry was sold for demolition to the Aliağa shipyards. On 10 July 2026 the vessel arrived at the breakers yard.