MS Norman Atlantic

The fire-damaged Norman Atlantic in the port of Bari, Italy, 2015
History
Name	Akeman Street (2009–2011) Scintu (2011–2014) Norman Atlantic (2014–2019)
Owner	Visemar di Navigazione S.r.l. (2009 onwards)
Operator	Saremar (2011–2012) Grandi Navi Veloci (2013) Moby Lines (2013) LD Lines (2013–2014) Caronte and Tourist (October–December 2014) ANEK Lines (December 2014 – July 2019)
Port of registry	Bari, Italy
Route	Ancona–Igoumenitsa–Corfu–Patras
Ordered	1 November 2006
Builder	Cantiere Navale Visentini, Porto Viro, Italy
Yard number	222
Laid down	19 December 2006
Launched	18 June 2009
Completed	2 November 2009
Acquired	21 September 2009
Out of service	28 December 2014
Identification	Call sign: IBUM IMO number: 9435466 MMSI number: 247277400
Fate	Scrapped, 2019
Notes	Sister ships: Stena Livia, GNV Sealand, Stena Flavia
General characteristics
Type	Roll-on/Roll-off passenger (ROPAX) ferry
Tonnage	26,904 GT
Length	186.00 m (610 ft 3 in)
Beam	25.60 m (84 ft 0 in)
Draught	6.71 m (22 ft 0 in)
Depth	15.00 m (49 ft 3 in)
Installed power	Two MAN B&W 9L48/60B diesel engines, 21,600 kW (29,000 hp)
Speed	23.5 knots (43.5 km/h; 27.0 mph) (cruising) 24.5 knots (45.4 km/h; 28.2 mph) (maximum)
Capacity	850 passengers 200 vehicles
Crew	185

MS Norman Atlantic was a roll-on/roll-off passenger (ROPAX) ferry owned by the Italian ferry company Visemar di Navigazione. The ferry was chartered by ANEK Lines from December 2014. On 28 December 2014, she caught fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea.

At the time of the fire there were an estimated 475 people on board the ship including 417 passengers, 55 crew and at least three illegal immigrants.^[1] Of these, 452 people were rescued and the bodies of 11 were recovered.^[1] It is known that 16 passengers died and it was estimated that there were 28 deaths overall, the uncertainty arising from estimates of the number of illegal immigrants on board.^[1] Additionally, two crewmembers of the Albanian tug Iliria died during the salvage operations on 30 December.^[2]