History
| LOI | |
| 22/12/1978 | Building contract |
| Building started | |
| 8/1979 | Keel laid |
| 4/1/1980 | Launch |
| Sea trial | |
| Second sea trial | |
| 21/6/1980 | Delivered to Rederi AB Sally, Mariehamn, Finland. |
| 27/6/1980 | Helsinki – Stockholm route operated Viking Line |
| 6/1982 | Sold to Suomen Yritysrahoitus OY, charter back to Rederi AB Sally |
| 1985 | Ground near Sandhamn, Stockholm archipelago, repaired on drydock |
| 29/4/1986 | Last day on Viking Line service Helsinki – Stockholm route |
| 5/1986 | Refurbished to using cruises on Wärtsilä Helsinki shipyard. |
| Fire on engine room extinguished by the shipyard staff. | |
| 5/1986 | New name Sally Albatross, Mariehamn, Finland |
| 16/5/1986 | Start to cruises from Helsinki to Baltic Sea , mostly 25 hour cruises to sea , also Leningrad and Visby cruises. Operated by Sally Cruises. |
| 2/1987 | Rederi AB Sally sold to Effjohn (Silja Line) |
| 1987 | Build new Sky Bar. |
| 6/1-16/2/1988 | Rebuild on Schichau Seebeckwerft AG, Bremerhaven. Build new suites, originaly small cabins replaced to larger cabins. |
| 2/1988 | Continue cruises to Baltic sea |
| 2/1989 | New owner Partrederiet Sally Albatross. |
| 1/1990 | Drydock on Nacka shipyard on Sweden. Refurbished on restaurants, nightclub and conference facilities |
| 9/1/1990 | Fire started on repairs and sprinkler system was turned off for the docking. |
| 12/1/1990 | Ship burned uncontrollably for three days. It maek heavily damages, only ships engineroom and some under car deck parts of ship saved. |
| 25-27/6/1990 | Ship towed to Mäntyluoto, Finland where removed all sructures over cardeck. |
| 27/6/1990 | Contract to rebuild ship on Rauma Yards Oy, Finland |
| 9/1990 | Hull towed to Naantali, where it cut into several sections. Then moved to Rauma where start to rebuild a ship. Ships hull lengthened for 13 meters. |
| 25/7/1991 | Launch and nemed again Sally Albatross |
| 5/2/1992 | Delivered to Sally AB, Mariehamn, Finland |
| 25/3/1992 | Maiden voyage from Helsinki to Tallinn |
| 26/3/1992 | Cuises to Tallinn. Summer season cruises to St. Petersburg, Visby and fridays to Tallinn. |
| 16/7-17/8 1992 | Chartered to Svea 92 (a Swedish consortium for advancing exports) as a hotel and conference ship for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona |
| 17/8/1992 | Back to normal cruise schedule Cruises to Visby and St. Petersburg , Winter time 24 hour cruises to Tallinn. |
| 4/3/1994 | Ran aground on thick ice sea outside of Porkkala. She was towed to shallow waters and her passengers evacuated to Ice Breakers and ferry Saint Patrick II. |
| 16/4-20/4/1994 | Afloaded again and towed to Vuosaari Shipyard, Helsinki. |
| Summer 1994 | Bottom repaired and removed those parts interior witch was under water. |
| 10/1994 | Towed to I.N.M.A Shipyard, La Spezia, Italy, where rebuilding takes few months. |
| 10/1994 | Charter to Norwegian Cruise Line, named to Leeward, Panama Flag |
| 7/1995 | Delivered to NCL. Cruises to Caribbean. |
| 1997 | Collides with Great Mayan Reef near Cancun |
| 12/1999 | End of Charter to NCL , new contract charter ship to Star Cruises. Drydocking and refurbished. |
| 3/2000 | Named Superstar Taurus , delivered to Star Cruises , Cruises around Asia. Mostly Fukuoka – Busan cruises |
| 12/3/2000 | Maiden voyage from Pusan, South korea to Kobe and Fukuoka, Japan |
| 12/2001 | Star Cruises broke the charter contract and next month ship moved back to Europe. |
| 16/2-6/2002 | Arrived to Naantali shiprepair yard and refurbished |
| 21/5/2002 | Named to Silja Opera and Sweden flag. |
| 6/2002 | Small fire on battery room, extinguished by the ships crew. |
| 29/6/2002 | Back in Silja Line service, cruises from Helsinki to Tallinn, Visby and Riga and St. Petersburg. |
| 17/9/2003 | Silja Opera collided with three cargo vessels at St.Petersburg harbour on 17.9.2003. The ship was on her way from St.Petersburg to Helsinki |
| 12/11/2003 | Silja Opera collided with ice breakers at St.Petersburg harbour on 12.11.2003. The ship was on her way from St.Petersburg to Helsinki. |
| 1/10/2004 | Stockholm – Mariehamn – Tallinn cruises |
| 4/2/2005 | Helsinki – Tallinn cruises |
| Summer 2005 > | Cruises from Helsinki to Visby, St. Petersburg and Tallinn |
| 10/1/2006 | Turku – Mariehamn – Kapellskär route, replaced Silja Europa |
| 13/2/2006 | Last arrival to Turku |
| 15-16/2/2006 | Ship moved to Stockholm , where laid up for sale. |
| 21-25/5/2006 | Ship moved to Tilbury, UK. Laid up for sale |
| 14/7/2006 | New owner Sea Containers Opera Ltd. Named to Opera, Bahamas flag. |
| 10/5/2007 | Sold to Opera Acquisition, LLC (Louis Cruise Lines) |
| 6/2007 | Refurbished on Eleusis Shipyards, Greece |
| 7/2007 | Named to Cristal and Greece flag |
| 23/7/2007 | Cruises on Mediterranean |
| 1/8/2008 | Collision on Piraeus harbour between Cristal and Anek Lines ferry Lissos |
| 1/3/2011 | New name Louis Cristal |
| Summer 2012 | Cruises from Piraeus and Istanbul |
| 31/8/2023 | Laid up at Lavrio, Greece. |
| 2024 | Sold to new owner. |
| 8/2024 | New name New Dawn. |