{"id":12400,"date":"2018-08-14T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=12400"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:05:39","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=12400","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
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3\/11\/1971<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
24\/3\/1972<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
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<\/td>Second sea trial<\/td><\/tr>
14\/7\/1972<\/td>Delivered to Jydsk F\u00e6rgefart A\/S, Hundested, Denmark.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/7\/1972<\/td>Gren\u00e5 – Hundested route.<\/td><\/tr>
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31\/12\/1977<\/td>Laid up for sale.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/3\/1978<\/td>Sold to Midland Montague Leasing (U.K.) Ltd, London, UK<\/td><\/tr>
14\/4\/1978<\/td>Rebuild by  Caillard S.A., Le Havre, France.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/6\/1978<\/td>New name nf Tiger. Operated  P&O Normandy Ferries<\/td><\/tr>
9\/6\/1978<\/td>Dover – Boulogne route.<\/td><\/tr>
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4\/1\/1985<\/td>Sold to Townsend Car Ferries Ltd., Dover, UK. New name Tiger. Continue in same route.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/7\/1986<\/td>Laid up for sale at Chatham<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1986<\/td>Sold to Finlandshamnen Ab, Norrt\u00e4lje, Sweden.<\/td><\/tr>
11-20\/12\/1986<\/td>Rebuild in Tyne, UK<\/td><\/tr>
22\/12\/1986<\/td>Rebuild in \u00d6resundsvarvet. New name \u00c5landsf\u00e4rjan.<\/td><\/tr>
29\/4\/1987<\/td>Arrived to Mariehamn<\/td><\/tr>
18\/5\/1987<\/td>Kapellsk\u00e4r – Mariehamn route.<\/td><\/tr>
 1995<\/td>Owner Rederi Ab Viking Line, Norrt\u00e4lje, Sweden.<\/td><\/tr>
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1-2\/2002<\/td>Rebuild and installed sponsons in  Baltic Ship Repairers, Tallinn, Estonia.<\/td><\/tr>
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27\/5\/2008<\/td>Sold to G.A.P Shipping Co Ltd, Liberia<\/td><\/tr>
26\/6\/2008<\/td>Rebuild on Rauma shipyard, Finland<\/td><\/tr>
27\/6\/2008<\/td>New name Expedition.<\/td><\/tr>
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4\/2009<\/td>Cruises on Arctic and antarctic operated G Adventures.<\/td><\/tr>
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9\/2025<\/td>Voyage to Gdynia, Poland<\/td><\/tr>
6\/10\/2025<\/td>Arrived to Gdynia.<\/td><\/tr>
21\/10\/2025<\/td>Sold to Vestland Adventurer A\/S (Vestland Classic AS) , Poland. New name Vestland Adventurer. <\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                     History LOI Building contract Building started 3\/11\/1971 Keel laid 24\/3\/1972 Launch Sea trial Second sea trial 14\/7\/1972 Delivered to Jydsk F\u00e6rgefart A\/S, Hundested, Denmark. 15\/7\/1972 Gren\u00e5 – Hundested route. 31\/12\/1977 Laid up for sale. 2\/3\/1978 Sold … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12391,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12400","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43491,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12400\/revisions\/43491"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}