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                          History

  
  
31/8/1985Launch
26/4/1986Delivered Rederi AB Slite, Sweden. Operate on Viking Line service
29/4/1986Helsinki – Stockholm route
5/4/1993Last day on Viking Line service
7/4/1993Rederi AB Slite went bankrup
4/1993Charter to P&O  Portsmouth ferries
5/1993New name Pride of Bilbao
5/1993Portsmouth – Bilbao  Portsmouth – Cherbourg
10/1993Sold to Irish Continental Group , Chartered to P&O Portsmouth ( European) Ferries
  
2002Refurbished interior
11/2008Bahamas flag
7/1-4/2/2010Falmouth Dry Dock
28/9/2010Last day on Portsmouth – Bilbao route
1/10/2010Arrived to Falmouth Dry Dock
9/10/2010New name Bilbao
20/10/2010Laid up and refurbished on Falmouth
12/2010Charter to ST. Peter Line
12/2010Arrived to Klaipeda , where ship will be refurbished
2/2011Management  St Peter Line Rus LLC
3/2011New name SPL Princess Anastasia, Malta flag
4/2011St. Petersburg – Tallinn – Stockholm service
4/8/2011St. Petersburg – Tallinn – Helsinki – Mariehamn – Stockholm service
2012 ?St. Petersburg – Tallinn – Helsinki – Stockholm service
  
18/5/2012Evacuated in Stockholm harbour when company had bomb threat of  Princess Anastasia. No any bomb  finded.
1/1-23/2/2013Charter cruises and docking
24/2/2013St. Petersburg – Tallinn – Helsinki – Stockholm service
8/2013Owner Zatarga Ltd, Ireland
9-31/1/2014Special cruise from St. Petersburg to Sochi
 Used as hotelship on Sochi Olympic Games.
2/4/2014Sold to  St. Peter Line.
  
12/1/2017Sold to Moby SPA, Italy. Continue in Moby St. Peter Line join venture in same service.
  Italian flag.
29/12/18-23/3/19Winter laid up.
6/11/2019Run aground caused by black out at Lidingö , Stockholm archipelago.

Refloated later same  evening and continued service after inspection.

15-26/11/2019Drydocking at Gdansk.
  Depart from shipyard and soon returned back there.
 8/1/2020 Back in service or winter laid up. Cancelled later.
 12/2019 Drydocking at Gdansk, winter laid up.
 19/4/2020 Season staring delayed from March to April due to Corona virus epidemic.
 28/4/2020 Voyage from Gdansk to Murmansk
 5/2020 Used as accommodation vessel in Murmasnk
 late 2020 Used as accommodation vessel in Belokamenka, near Murmansk.
 22/5/2021 Planned to start cruises on Baltic sea again.
 31/5/2022 Voyage from Belokamenka toMessina. Towed last part due to engine problems.
 6/2022- Refurbished at Messina.
 24/11/2022 New name Moby Orli.
 27/7/2023 Genova – Bastia route.
 13/8/2023 Laid up.