Crete tourist guide

The history of the SS Heraklion ferry

This slightly old steamer was built in 1949 in Glasgow, where it was given the name SS Leicestershire. After a few years of service under the British flag, quite a roundabout route, serving along the routes in India and Africa, he came to Greece to the shipowner Aegean Steam Line. From 1964, the SS Heraklion operating in the Typaldos Lines ferry lines sailed on the Mediterranean Sea, usually on the route between mainland Greece and Crete.