She is a motor Ro-Ro/Passenger ferryboat, built in 2000 by Van der Giessen de Noord shipward in Krimpen aan den IJssel, Netherlands.

She has four MAN B&W 8L58 / 64 diesel engines,[1][2] with combined power of 44,480 kW and reaches speeds of up to 27 knots.

However, after Strintzis Lines' acquisition of 48% stake by Attica Enterprise and renaming to Blue Star Ferries, she got her current name.

[5] In July however, due to the delivery of Superfast XI, she was deployed between Piraeus – Patmos – Leros – Kos – Rhodes[1][4][5][6] in Dodecanese,[7] occasionally stopping in Syros, Mykonos and Amorgos.

Once she arrived, she was deployed between Zeebrugge – Rosyth, in order to cover the space left by the Superfast X, which was sold earlier, until September 14, 2008.

On February 1, 2012, she was deployed between Piraeus – Heraklion, under the ANEK-Attica joint venture, for one year, before returning to the Adriatic Sea on November 15, 2013.

She was then deployed between Patras – Igoumenitsa – Ancona, for one month before returning to the Aegean Sea on December 9.