| 11/10/1923 |
Building contract |
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Start of Production |
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| 23/1/1924 |
Keel laid |
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| 2/5/1924 |
Launch |
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| 14/7/1924 |
Delivered to Southern Railways Co. Southampton , United Kingdom |
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| 7/1924 |
Southampton – Saint Malo route |
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Weymouth to France routes. |
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| 2/10/1939 |
Taked over by British Navy. Using as hospital ship “Hospital Ship No. 28” |
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| 10/1939 |
Laid up at Cherbourg. |
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| 25/5/1940 |
Southampton – Cherbourg sailings. |
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| 1940 |
Used to evacuation of Dunkerque. |
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| 9/12/1940 |
Liverpool – Belfast service |
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| 1/3/1941 |
Scapa Flow – Aberdeen service |
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| 1-6/1943 |
Rebuild on Glasgow. |
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| 25/6/1943 |
Voyage from Glasgow to Sicilien. |
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| 7/1943 |
Sicilien – South Italy – North Africa services |
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| 20/4/1944 |
Arrived to Southampton |
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| 6/6/1944 |
Used to D-day operation |
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| 7/6/1944 |
Hit a mine on Juno beach |
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| 9/6/1944 |
Arrived to Southampton for repairing. |
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| 19/7/1944 |
Back to service |
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| 7/1945 |
Southern Railway service Southampton to channel Islands. |
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| 8/1946 |
Rebuild on Palmers’ Hebburn Co. Ltd., Tyne to car ferry. |
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| 1/7/1947 |
Channel service between ports Folkestone and Dover to Calais and Boulogne. |
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| 1/1/1948 |
New owner British Transport Commission, ( much later Sea Link) |
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| 1952 |
Build stern ramp to cargo deck. |
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| 30/6/1953 |
Dover – Boulogne route. |
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| autumn 1958 |
Back up ship / laid up. |
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| 7/4/1959 |
Sold to Rederi AB Vikinglinjen, Mariehamn, Åland. New name Viking. |
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| 21/4/1959 |
Rebuild at Aalborg Skibsværft A/S, Ålborg, Denmark. |
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| 1/6-19/9/1959 |
Galtby (Korppoo) – Mariehamn – Gräddö route. Laid up winter. |
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| 8/5/1960-30/9/1961 |
Galtby (Korppoo) – Mariehamn – Kapellskär route. |
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| 6/5/1962 |
Parainen – Mariehamn – Kapellskär route. |
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| 1965 |
Co operation with rederi Ab Viking Line and Rederi Ab Slite |
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| 1966 |
Owner new name Rederi Ab Solstad |
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| 1966 |
Rederi Ab Solstad sold to Rederi Ab Sally |
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| 30/7/1966 |
Founded marketing company Viking Line (Viking Linjen) |
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| 4/9/1967 |
Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellskär route. |
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| 12/8/1970 |
Arrived last time to Mariehamn |
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| 13/8/1970 |
Laid up at Mariehamn |
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| 12/8/1973 |
Sold to Helsingin Romuliike OY |
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| 12/10/1973 |
Scrapped in Helsinki. |
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