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                                       History

9/1970Building contract
19/7/1971Keel laid
17.12.1971Launch
14/4/1972Delivered to Rederi AB Sally, Mariehamn, Åland
16/4/1972Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellskär route, operated Viking Line
17/12/1972Run aground between korppoo and Houtskär. Passengers evacuated
18/12/1972Repaired on Uudenkaupungin Telakka OY, Finland
2/1976Sold to OY Vasa-Umeå Oy
4/5/1976Delivered, named to Wasa Express
7/5/1976Vaasa – Sundsvall route
1-15/10/1977Drydocking
7-15/5/1978Drydocking
4/1/1979Vaasa – Umeå route
4/1979Company sold to Enso-Gutzeit OY and named Vaasanlaivat OY / Vasabåtarna AB
1983.Vaasanlaivat sold to rederi AB Sally,continue same name
29/3/1983Named Viking 3
12/4/1983Sally Lines service
10/4/1984Named Wasa Express back to Vaasanlaivat service same routes
summer 1984Vaasa – Umeå route
1986 -1988Vaasa – Umeå and Vaasa – Örnsköldsvik route
8/8/1988Sold to Eckerö Line
31/10/1988Last day to Vaasanlaivat service
1/11/1988Delivered to Eckerö Line, new name Roslagen
1988/1989Refurbished interior, build new Tax Free Market
3/1989Eckerö Linjen service Eckerö – Grisslehamn route.
23/101992Charter to Estonian New Line, Helsinki – Tallinn route, Estonian flag
1/2/1994Back to Eckerö Line service Eckerö – Grisslehamn route
1998Build new Cafe and Childrens Playroom on deck 5
2001Build sponsons on Alandia Yard
2003Build bigger sundeck
20/8/2007Laid up for sale
13-15/11/2007Sold to Agoudimos Lines, Greece, named Ionian Spirit, St Vincent and The Grenadines flag
10/7/2008Igoumenitsa – Brindisi route
12/2008Main engine failure, repaired at Perama.
6/2010Brindisi – Vlore route
4/2011Chartered to International Organization for migration, for Libya evacutions.
25/4/2011Arrived Vlore
Winter 2011/2012Laid up
26/3/2012Arrested by Brindisi port authority
Summer  2012Igoumenitsa – Brindisi route
19/7/2012Laid up at brindisi.
12/10/2016Sold to Seamed trading Shipping SRL, Panama. New name St. Damian.
11/2016Sailed to Piraeus.
2017European Ferries service Brindisi – Albania routes.
  
  
 1/2022Sold to scrap. 
 4/4/2022 Departed under towing destination to Aliaga, Turkey. New name Ian.
 7/4/2022 Beeached Aliaga, Turkey. Scrapped.