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                                    History

Building contract
Start of Production
Keel laid
24/4/1971 Launch
13/5/1972 Delivered to DA-NO Linien, Norway
5/1972 Oslo – Århus route.
1973 Sold to Skan-Fahrt K.G. Hamburg, Germany. Charter to DA-NO Linien.
5/1975 Arrested at Århus due to economical problems. Later back in service.
1975 Sold to Brittany Ferries. delivery end of year.
30/12/1975 Delivered to Brittany Ferries, France. New name Armorique. Rebuild.
4/3/1976 Roscoff – Plymouth, St Malo – Plymouth and St Malo – Portsmouth routes
17/4/1978 Plymouth – Santander, Roscoff – Cork and St Malo – Portsmouth routes.
25/3-16/4/1986 Charter to SMZ , Holland. Hoek van Holland – Harwich route.
5/1986 St Malo – Portsmouth, Roscoff – Plymouth and Cherbourg – Poole routes.
1987 Rebuild
27/5-13/6/1988 Truckline Ferries service, Cherbourg – Poole route
6-9/1988 St Malo – Portsmouth route
28/9/89-2/1/1990 British Channel Island Ferries service, Poole – Guernsey – Jersey route.
1/1990 St Malo – Portsmouth, Caen – Portsmouth routes. Later laid up
12/1990 Charter French army.
2/5/1991 St Malo – Portsmouth, Caen – Portsmouth and Poole – Cherbourg routes
2-20/2/1993 Charter to Channel Island Ferries, Poole – Jersey – Guernsey route.
21/2/1993 Laid up Cherbourg
9/1993 Laid up St. Malo
18/12/1993 Sold to Xiamen Ocean Shipping Co., Xiamen, China. New name Min Nan
1994 Xiamen – Hong Kong route
1998 Sold to Weihai Ferry Co, Weihai. China. New name Sheng Sheng
4/2/2003 Sold to Dharma Lautan Utama PT. Belize flag.
Rebuild. Build  cardeck on deck A stern
1/2005 New name  Tirta Kencana I.  Indonesian flag
1/2005 Surabaya – Makasar route.
10/2009 New name Musthika Kencana II
4/7/2011 4.30 PM Fire on lower car deck. 7.10 PM  ship evacuated
5/7/2011 Sunk the Java Sea in position  06*22’009’’LS / 114*35`009’’ BT