History
LOI | |
Building contract | |
Building started | |
24/12/1942 | Keel laid |
13/6/1943 | Launch |
Sea trial | |
Second sea trial | |
31/8/1943 | Delivered to US Navy. Type Patrol frigate |
1943 | Charter to Royal Navy named HMS Kilchernan |
1943 > 1945 | She served under the Union Jack as a submarine destroyer at |
the western coast of Africa and the Gibraltar area. | |
1947 | Sold to Hardanger Sunnhordlanske D/S, Norway |
1947 – 1949 | Rebuild to passanger ferry on Bergens Mekaniske Verkstetder, Bergen, Norway. |
New name Sunnhordland | |
1949 | Bergen – Sunnhordland route |
21/6/1973 | Laid up |
13/11/1973 | First time offered Sunnhorland to Fagerlines. |
25/1/1974 | Fagerlines inspection of the ship in Bergen |
8/3/1974 | Decision to buy a ship |
6/5/1974 | Sold to Fager Lines , Ristiina, Finland on 540000 NOK |
7/5/1974 12.55 | Departure from Bergen to Lappeenranta, Finland |
11/5/1974 18.00 | Arrived to Lappeenranta, where ship spend a week before moving to Ristiina. |
18/5/1974 | Sailed from Lappeenranta to Ristiina. |
5/1974 – | Rebuild public areas and build larger cabins and technical updates. |
27/10- 14/11/1974 | Drydocking on Wärtsilä Kotka shipyard. |
11/1974 | Back to Lappeenranta, continued interior refit. |
16/5/1975 | Seatrial and classification companys inspection |
5/1975 | Charter and promotion cruises. |
31/5/1975 | 2 days Weekend cruises Savonlinna – Varkaus – Kuopio – Savonlinna |
and 4 days cruises from Savonlinna – Puumala – Lappeenranta | |
two first locks on Saimaa channel – Ristiina – Punkaharju – Savonlinna. | |
3/8/1975 | Narrowly avoided a collision with ss. Figaro near Olavinlinna, Savonlinna |
31/8/1975 | End of Fagerlines first season |
6-7/9/1975 | Voyage from Savonlinna to Helsinki. |
9/1975 – 4/1976 | Laid up winter on Helsinki |
4/1976 | Charter for exhibition ship to Eastern-Finland tourism exhibition. |
First in Helsinki and 26-27.4 on Turku. | |
30/4/1976 | Evening cruises from Helsinki |
7/5/1976 | Helsinki – Lappeenranta cruises |
29/5/1976 | Weekend cruises Lappeenranta – Puumala – Savonlinna. Holiday |
cruises Lappeenranta – Puumala – Punkaharju – Savonlinna – two | |
locks on Channel of Saimaa – Lappeenranta. Blue- Saimaa cruise | |
Lappeenranta – Kyläniemi ( Anttola ? ) beach -Ristiina – Lappeenranta | |
28/8/1976 | Seasons ending on Lake of Saimaa |
4/9/1976 | Lappeenranta – Helsinki cruise |
6/9/1976 | Evening cruises from Helsinki and Helsinki – Lappeenranta cruises. |
9/1976 | Two cruises Lappeenranta – Vyborg. |
4/10/1976 | Drydocking on Valmet Suomenlinnan Telakka, Helsinki. |
10/1976 | Laid up winter on Helsinki |
26/4/1977 | Evening cruises from Helsinki and charter cruises. |
5/1977 | Helsinki – Lappeenranta cruises |
20/5/1977 | Weekend cruises Lappeenranta – Puumala – Savonlinna. Holiday cruises |
Lappeenranta – Puumala – Punkaharju – Savonlinna – two locks on Channel | |
of Saimaa – Lappeenranta. Blue- Saimaa cruise Lappeenranta – Puumala -Ristiina – Lappeenranta | |
20/8/1977 | Lappeenranta – Helsinki cruise |
21/8/1977 | Evening cruises from Helsinki and charter cruises. |
10/1977 | Laid up winter on Helsinki |
Winter 1977/1978 | Build larger sundeck and Multi-purpose Room formely cardeck. |
11/5/1978 | Evening cruises from Helsinki and charter cruises. |
20/5/1978 | First cruise to Mariehamn |
10/6/1978 | Weekend cruises Lappeenranta – Puumala – Savonlinna. Holiday cruises Lappeenranta |
Puumala – Punkaharju – Savonlinna – two locks on Channel of Saimaa – Lappeenranta. | |
Blue- Saimaa cruise Lappeenranta – Puumala -Ristiina – Lappeenranta | |
6/1978 | Was the first lake ship in Finland having strong alcohol sales licence. |
8/1978 | Evening cruises from Helsinki and charter cruises. |
10/1978 | Laid up winter on Helsinki |
10/5/1979 | Evening cruises from Helsinki and charter cruises. |
17-18/5/1979 | Kotka – Vyborg – Lappeenranta cruise |
6/1979 | Weekend cruises Lappeenranta – Puumala – Savonlinna. Holiday cruises Lappeenranta |
Puumala – Imatra – Savonlinna – two locks on Channel of Saimaa – Lappeenranta. | |
Blue- Saimaa cruise Lappeenranta – Puumala -Ristiina – Lappeenranta | |
8/1979 | Evening cruises from Helsinki, Helsinki / Kotka – Lappeenranta cruises and charter cruises. |
1/9/1979 | SB side main engine damaged. Rest of season used one main engine. |
21/9/1979 | Laid up winter on Helsinki |
Wnteri 1979/1980 | Main engine repaired on Helsinki. Build two new Deluxe and and two A-cabins |
on Boat deck. Bar builded on Red Lounge. Two aft lifeboat removed. | |
13/5/1980 | Evening cruises from Helsinki and charter cruises. |
6-9/1980 | Lappeenranta – Puumala – Savonlinna and Helsinki / kotka -Lappeenranta / Vyborg cruises. |
22/9/1980 | Laid up winter on Helsinki |
21-29/10/1980 | Drydocking on Wärtsilä Kotka shipyard. |
18-24/11/1980 | Changed SB main engine on Ruoholahti, Helsinki. |
4/12/1980 | Three years charter to Saimaan Laivamatkat OY . Later change name to Saimaan Laivat OY |
14/5/1981 | 5-6 hours evening cruises and Helsinki – Vyborg – Lappeenranta cruises |
24/6/1981 | Lappeenranta – Puumala – Savonlinna and Lappeenranta – Vyborg cruises |
18/8/1981 | 5-6 hours evening cruises and Helsinki – Vyborg cruises |
24/9/1981 | End of cruise season. |
8/11/1981 | Saimaan Laivat was chartered ship to as a accommodation ship to Rauma-Repola OY, Pori. And without shipowner permisssion. |
7-8/11/1981 | Kristina Brahe sailed from Helsinki to Pori |
1/12/1981 | Saimaan Laivat OY went a bankrup. Kristina Brahe returned to Fagerlines. |
16/12/1981 | Kristina Brahe arrived back to Helsinki |
16-17/12/1981 | Leak side of engineroom. |
21/12/1981 | 36 days drydocking on Valmet Suomenlinnan Telakka, Helsinki. |
26/1/1982 | Laid up on Helsinki |
5/1982 | 5-6 hours evening cruises and Helsinki – Vyborg -Lappeenranta cruises and charter cruises |
mid June / 1982 | Tuesday, Thursday and saturday Lappeenranta – Puumala – Savonlinna and Sunday Lappeenranta – Vyborg cruises |
8/1982 | 5-6 hours evening cruises and Helsinki – Vyborg cruises and charter cruises |
13/9/1982 | First Helsinki – Tallinna cruise |
27/9 -25/11/1982 | Drydocking |
11/10/1982 | First contact to sell or chartered Kristina Brahe to Rannikkolinjat (Kristina Cruises) |
25/11/1982 | Laid up winter on Helsinki |
1983 | Modified ship to operate international waters. |
5/1983 | 5-6 hours evening cruises and three Helsinki – Vyborg – Lappeenranta cruises, and charter cruises |
13-15/6/1983 | First Helsinki – Leningrad cruise |
17/6/1983 | Tuesday, Thursday and saturday Lappeenranta – Puumala – Savonlinna and Sunday Lappeenranta – Vyborg cruises |
mid aug. 1983 | Evening cruises from Helsinki and charter cruises. Total two Leningrad and six Tallinn cruises for this season. |
17/9/1983 | End of summer season |
8/11 – 9/12/1983 | Christmas party cruises from Helsinki. |
10/12/1983 | Laid up winter on Helsinki. Build more toilets to cabins updated Multi-purpose Room |
4/5/1984 | 5-6 hours evening cruises and three Helsinki – Vyborg -Lapeenranta cruises, and charter cruises |
Mid June 1984 | Tuesday, Thursday Lappeenranta – Puumala – Savonlinna and Friday and Sunday Lappeenranta – Vyborg cruises |
Mid Aug. 1984 | Evening cruises from Helsinki and charter cruises. Total three Leningrad and seven Tallinn cruises for this season. |
1984 | Another plan to sell a ship to Rannikkolinjat OY, Kotka |
11-12/1984 | Negotiations on the sale of the Kristina Brahe to Rannikkolinjat OY. |
28/12/1984 | Sold to Rannikkolinjat OY (Kristina Cruises), New homeport Kotka |
10/1986 | Replace shortly Georg Ots in Helsinki – Tallinn route when Georg Ots was in accommodation ship on Reykjavik. |
1987 | Rebuild more cabins with private facilities. |
11/5/1991 | Savonlinna / Lappeenranta / Kotka / Helsinki – Vyborg cruises. Kotka – Uuras cruises. |
31/8-1/12/1991 | Kotka – Vyborg cruises |
8/5/1992> | Savonlinna / Lappeenranta / Kotka – Vyborg cruises. Kotka – Uuras cruises. Kotka – Kronstadt cruises |
3/5/1993 | Kotka – Vyborg, Kotka to Gulf of Finland Islands. Kotka – Kronstadt cruises |
3/9-28/11/1993 | Kotka – Vyborg cruises. On November, Evening on sea cruises from Kotka |
1997 | Rebuild more cabins with private facilities. |
30/4-5/12/1999 | Lappeenranta – Vyborg and Kotka – Vyborg – Lappeenranta cruises. Midsummer also Lappeenranta – Savonlinna cruises |
28/4-8/7/2000 | Lappeenranta – Vyborg and Kotka – Vyborg – Lappeenranta cruises. |
8-14/7/2000 | Opera Cruise Kotka – St. Petersburg – Savonlinna – Lappeenranta |
14/7-5/12/2000 | Lappeenranta – Vyborg and Kotka – Vyborg – Lappeenranta cruises. |
30/4/2005 | Daycruises from Kotka |
16-26/5/2005 | Bird migration on the Finnish Archipelago from Helsinki |
2/6-25/8/2005 | Helsinki – Kasnäs – Korppoo – Kökar – Mariehamn – Utö – Jurmo – Högsåra – Helsinki cruises and Helsinki – |
Kotka – Lappeenranta – Savonlinna – Puumala – Lappeenranta – Kotka – helsinki cruises. | |
2/9-5/12/2005 | Day cruises from Kotka and Hamina |
12/2007-5/2008 | Build bigger sundeck and bar. Also bow thruster installed and build new cabins on deck 1. and 4. |
13-25/5/2008 | Bird migration on the Finnish Archipelago from Helsinki |
4/9-23/8/2008 | Helsinki – Jussarö – Tammisaari – Jurmo – Utö – Kökar – Nauvo – Helsinki cruises and |
Helsinki – Kotka – Lappeenranta – Savonlinna – Puumala – Lappeenranta – Kotka – helsinki cruises. | |
24/8-9/9/2008 | Cruises to Turku archipelago and west coast of Finland |
17/9-31/10/2008 | Cruises on Lake Saimaa and Lake Kallavesi |
1/11-6/12/2008 | Lunch cruises from Lappeenranta and Kotka. |
7/6/2010 | Kristina Cruises published plans to looking buyer on Kristina Brahe . |
9/8/2010 | Run aground near Sulkava, Lake of Saimaa, no damages to ship. |
30/8/2010 | Last arrival to Helsinki. September cruises cancelled. |
9/2010 | Sold to Saimaan matkaverkko Oy, Lappeenranta , Finland New name Brahe and homeport Lappeenranta. |
10/2010 | First arrival to home port |
28/5 – 6/6/2011 | Lappeenranta (Nuijamaa) – Vyborg day cruises. |
6-12/6/2011 | Continue another week on Vyborg cruises due to delays of ms. Carelia repairing. |
12/6-21/8/2011 | Cruises from Helsinki, Kotka, Lappeenranta, Puumala and Savonlinna and charter cruises |
22/8/2011 | Winter laid up at Lappeenranta |
8/5-26/8/2012 | Cruises on Turku archipelago , Gulf of Finland, Saimaa canal and lake of Saimaa |
27/8/2012 | Winter laid up at Lappeenranta |
9/5-25/8/2013 | Cruises on Turku archipelago , Gulf of Finland, Saimaa canal , lake of Saimaa and Hamina – Vyborg cruises |
25/8/2014 | Chartered to Nordisk Cruise Line, Denmark. |
9/2014 | Short cruises from Faaborg and Faaborg – Flensburg cruises |
1/10/2014 | Faaborg – Flensburg cruises cancelled. |
3/2015 | Charter with Nordisk Cruise Line cancelled. Summer 2015 season operated Saimaa Travel |
6-8/2015 | 3-4 days cruises from Denmark and shorter cruises |
Cruises cancelled | |
28/7/2015 | Used as hotel ship for few days. |
8/2015 | Laid up at Flensburg |
30/9/2015 | Voyage from Flensburg to Hamina. |
10/2016 | Some cruises from Hamina. |
Winter 2015/16 | Laid up at Hamina |
6/2016 | LOI to sell Brahe to HSD Sunnhordland AS, Norway |
7/7/2016 | Voyage to Lappeenranta. |
8/7/2016 | Lappeenranta – Vyborg cruises replace Carelia. |
8/2016 | Laid up shortly at Lappeenranta. |
14-15/8/2016 | Voyage from Lappeenranta to Netaman shipyard, Tallinn. |
18/8/2016 | Delivered to new owner. Norwegian flag |
8-10/2016 | Drydocking and removing cabins at Tallinn. Rebuild ship as she was in 1948 |
New name Sunnhordland. | |
11/2016 | Voyage from Talinn to Bergen |
2017- | Used sigthseeing and charter cruises |