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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
1943Charter 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.
1984Another 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.
1987Rebuild 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
1997Rebuild 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
8-10/2016Drydocking and removing cabins at Tallinn.
Rebuild ship as she was in 1948
New name Sunnhordland.
11/2016Voyage from Talinn to Bergen
2017-Used sigthseeing and charter cruises