Jolly Blue

Jolly Blue is a cargo ship operated by Messina Line between Tunis, Gioia, Tauro, and Naples. It was previously operated by Toll Shipping and Brambles Shipping in Australia as Victorian Reliance.

Victorian Reliance at Burnie in 2012
History
Name	Jolly Blue
Owner	Messina Line
Operator	Brambles Shipping (1999–2002) Toll Shipping (2002–2019) Messina Line (2019–current)
Port of registry	Madeira
Builder	Samsung Heavy Industries, Geoje, South Korea
Launched	31 December 1998
Completed	20 May 1999
In service	1999
Renamed	Victorian Reliance (1999–2019) Jolly Blue (2019–)
Identification	IMO number: 9180205 MMSI number: 503086000 Call sign: CQIS6
General characteristics
Type	Container and Roll-on/roll-off
Tonnage	20,343 GT, 11,000 DWT
Length	192 m (629 ft 11 in)
Beam	23.64 m (77 ft 7 in)
Draught	6.34 m (20 ft 10 in)
Installed power	14,720 kW (19,740 hp) at 750 rpm
Propulsion	4 × Wärtsilä 8L32
Speed	20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Capacity	592 TEU, 2,524 lane metres

History

The Jolly Blue was built by Samsung Heavy Industries as the Victorian Reliance for Brambles Shipping for use on Bass Strait services between Melbourne and Burnie, along with sister ship Tasmanian Achiever. The ship was acquired by Toll Shipping with the Brambles shipping business in 2002.^[1][2]

It was extended by 32 metres to 184 metres in Singapore in 2004.^[3] When CMA CGM, parent company of Australian National Line, withdrew the Bass Trader from the Melbourne to Bell Bay route in 2009, it entered into a joint venture to transfer cargo to the Toll ships.^[4] As such it carried both Toll and ANL logos.

In March 2019, it was replaced by the larger Victorian Reliance II. It briefly returned to service while repairs were performed on Victorian Reliance II. It was sold in 2020 to Messina Line, renamed Jolly Blue and began operating on the Mediterranean Sea between Tunis, Gioia, Tauro and Naples.^[5]