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6/1968Building contract
 Keel laid
19/12/1969Launch and named Apollo by Mrs. isabella Myrsten
29/4/1970Delivered to Rederi AB Slite, Sweden
2/5/1970Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellskär route, operated Viking Line
1975Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route
autumn 1975Stockholm – Mariehamn route
2/3/1976Last day on Viking Line service
12/3/1976Sold to Olau Line, Denmark flag, new name Olau Kent.
1976Olau Line service on  Vlissingen – Sheerness
10/9/1980Arrested on Vlissingen
5/11/1980Sold to Nordisk Færgefart A/S, denmark
12/11/1980New name Gelting Nord.
3/1981Fåborg – Gelting route
3/1982Change new main engines by Svendborg skibsvaerft.
5-12/1982Charter to A/S Kattegat on Sandefjord – Hundested route
1983Fåborg – Gelting route
4/1984Charter to Brittany Ferries, new name Benodet
4/1984Plymouth – Roscoff route
3/1985Charter to British Channel Island Ferries,  new name Corbiére
3/1985Poole – Cherbourg route.
  
5/1989Charter to Truckline Ferries, same route.
15/8/1990Sold to Eckerö Linjen. Continue to charter on Truckline Ferries.
  
3/11/1991Charter to Estonian New Line, operate Helsinki – Tallinn route  using artist name Linda I.
  
1/1994Charter to Tallink. Helsinki – Tallinn route.
3/1/1994 – 23/12/1994Helsinki – Tallinn route
27/12/1994Docked on Kotkan telakka OY
5/5/1995New name Apollo, operated by Eestin Linjat (Eckerö Line and Birka Cruises) on Helsinki – Tallinn route.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
5/11/1998Charter to hotelship on Vyborg.
2/1999Charter to Nordisk Færgefart A/S, Denmark
3/1999Bagenkop – Kiel route
17/3/1999Ground on near Bagenkop, Denmark.
  
7/1999Laid up on Mariehamn for sale.
26/1/2000Sold to Labrador Marine Inc, St John, N.F. Canada
  
1/5/2000St. Barbe, Newfoundland to Blanc Sablon in Quebec route
 Laid up winter months.
10/1/2008Small fire onboard.
4/2008Delays due to ice.
3-4/4/2010departures cancelled due to  technical problems
  
17/1/2019Sold to  Société des traversiers du Québec (STQ), Canada for 1,4 m€
  
16/3/2019Hit a pier at Matane, Saint Lawrence River at the mouth of the Matane River, Canada.
 30/3/2019 Laid up at Quebec
 11/2020 Sold to scrapping in Canada.Plans to sink a ship.
 2/8/2021 Towed to Aliaga, Turkey
 5/9/2021 Arrived in Aliaga
 10/2021 Beached in Aliaga, scrapped