page_title: MV Northern Sea Wolf
section_title: European service
hierarchical_section_title: MV Northern Sea Wolf / European service
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Aqua Spirit im Hafen von Chora auf Naxos, Kykladen, Griechenland
context_page_description: M/V Northern Sea Wolf is a roll-on/roll-off ferry operated by BC Ferries in British Columbia, Canada. Her normal sailing schedule is five days a week during the peak summer season on the Inside Passage route connecting Bella Coola and Port Hardy. The route normally takes about ten hours to complete. Her schedule calls for one trip per day during daylight hours to maximize passenger enjoyment of the scenery.
context_section_description: The ship was christened Agios Andreas II.  She began her life as a ferry on the Piraeus to Aegina route in Greece.  In 2004 she was chartered to the Kefalonia Line and sailed between islands in the Ionian Sea.      
  In July 2005 she was sold to Atlas V Shipping and renamed Andreas II.  Under this new ownership, she sailed between Kythira Island and Neapoli Voion in Greece.    
  In October 2007 she was acquired by a Swedish company, Orvelin Group, and renamed Mr. Shoppy One.  During this period she shuttled across the Skagerrak, between Strömstad, Sweden and Tønsberg, Norway, and on Mondays between Strömstad and Skagen, Denmark.  The motivation of her Norwegian passengers was to buy liquor and other goods in Sweden, where taxes were lower, and then sail home.  Norwegian customs  authorities resisted the loss of tax revenue and fined Overlin Group SEK9 million.  Overlin's countersuit failed and the ship was laid-up in Gothenburg in 2009.    
  On April 28, 2011 the ship was sold to Orveline Hellenic Shipping Company of Piraeus.  The company executed a five-year bareboat charter agreement with NEL Lines which  renamed the ship Aqua Spirit.  She departed Gothenburg on June 14, 2014 for her new assignment.  She returned to Greece and served as a ferry in the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea.  She was idled when NEL Lines went bankrupt in 2015.    
  In February 2016 she was chartered to Seajets and continued her service among the Cyclades.
caption: Aqua Spirit at Naxos, Greece in 2013, showing vehicle loading ramp
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