History
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. | |