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