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Building contract
Building started
Keel laid
15/9/1913 Launch
Sea trial
Second sea trial
26/4/1914 Delivered to Finland Steamship Company, Helsinki, Finland
First captain Arthur Lindfors.
26/4/1914Delivery voyage from Göteborg to Helsinki.
28/4/1914First arrival to Helsinki.
29/4/1914Press cruise to Harmaja (coast of Helsinki)
2/5/1914Helsinki -Stettin route.
4/8/1914 Chartered to Russian Navy for using as hospital ship at Helsinki.
3/1918 Delivered back to SHO.
Repaired
18/5/1919 Summer service Helsinki – Hanko – Stockholm
Winter service Helsinki – Copenhagen – Hull route.
1920 Six weeks on turku – Stockholm route covering Oihonna docking.
1921Helsinki – Tallinn – Stettin route.
1938Rebuild on Wärtsilä, Hietalahti Shipyard, Helsinki
1939After WW2 started Ariadne sailed to Uusikaupunki and laid up there.
1940Laid up at Holmsund
1940 Laid up at Stockholm
1942Charter to German Army used as hospital ship on Gulf of Botnia.
Carry wounded soldiers back to Germany.
1943Vaasa – Umeå route.
19441944
12/1944 Handed over to the Soviet Union as war reparations.
25/12/1944 Grounded near Hamina on delivery voyage. Soviet
Union did´nt accept delivery of damaged ship.
5/1945 Towed to helsinki for repairing
10/1946 Repaired, lengthened and rebuild on Wärtsilä
Hietalahti Shipyard, helsinki.
20/6/1948 Helsinki – Copenhagen route.
1/1967 Last voyage on New Year Helsinki – Copenhagen route.
1/1967 Laid up
Summer 1967 Helsinki – Tallinn route,
Autumn 1967 Laid up.
14/6/1968 Turku – Stockholm route.
6/1968 Special cruise for celebrate 50 years co-operation by SHO, Bore and Svea.
4-8/9/1968 Helsinki – Visby cruise
9/1968 Laid up at Helsinki
7/1969 Sold for scrap to Helsingin romuliike OY
31/7/1969 Arrived to scrapping yard , in Helsinki, scarapped.