{"id":17121,"date":"2019-09-17T10:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=17121"},"modified":"2019-09-17T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:09:12","slug":"history-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=17121","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=17110\">Back to\u00a0Ship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 History<\/h3>\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td>LOI<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Building started<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8\/8\/1969    <\/td><td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>21\/2\/1970    <\/td><td>Launch<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6\/6\/1970    <\/td><td>Delivered to Delivered to Bonnierf\u00f6retagen Ab , Halmstad, Sverige (Lion Ferry) .    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8\/6\/1970    <\/td><td>Prinzen Linie service Bremerhaven &#8211; Harwich route.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1978<\/td><td>Owner Deutche Leasing AG, Bremen, Germany. Continue Prinzen Linie service.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>30\/9\/1978    <\/td><td>30\/9\/1978    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/5\/1981    <\/td><td>Operated DFDS A\/S.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>17\/12\/1982    <\/td><td>Laid up at Bremerhaven.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11\/2-11\/3\/1983    <\/td><td>Charter to Stoomvart Maatschappij Zeeland. Hoek van Holland &#8211; Harwich route.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12\/3\/1983    <\/td><td>Charter to Sealink UK. Hoek van Holland &#8211; Harwich route.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11\/6\/1983    <\/td><td>Laid up at Bremerhaven, later Copenhagen.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>30\/11\/1983    <\/td><td>Sold to DFDS Deutschland G.m.b.H. Hamburg, Germany.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6\/6\/1984    <\/td><td>Esbjerg &#8211; Newcastle &#8211; G\u00f6teborg and Cuxhaven &#8211; Harwich &#8211; G\u00f6teborg routes    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20\/8\/1984    <\/td><td>Laid up at Copenhagen.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14\/11\/1984    <\/td><td>Sold to Nordic Sun Ltd. Sweden.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14\/12\/1984    <\/td><td>Delivered to new owner. New name Nordic Sun.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>25\/2\/1985    <\/td><td>Rebuild on Werft Nobiskrug GmbH. Plans to open new route. Laid up.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/1985    <\/td><td>Charter to TT-Line. Trelleborg &#8211; Travem\u00fcnde route.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>27\/4\/1985    <\/td><td>End of charter.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>27\/4\/1985    <\/td><td>Drydocking at Helsinki.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>30\/4\/1985    <\/td><td>Sold to Perbadabab Nasional Shipping Line Berhad, (PNSL), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/1985    <\/td><td>Rebuild<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>28\/6\/1985    <\/td><td>New name Cruise Muhibah    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/7\/1986    <\/td><td>Voyage from Helsinki to Port Kelang.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8\/1986    <\/td><td>Malaysia &#8211; Singapore service.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/1989    <\/td><td>Sold to EPA Ireland Ltd, Dublin , Ireland.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6\/1\/1990    <\/td><td>Voyage from Jakarta to Dublin.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/2\/1990    <\/td><td>Rebuild on Liffey Yard PTE, Dublin. New name Munster.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>27\/4\/1990    <\/td><td>B &amp; I Line service Rosslare &#8211; Pembroke Dock and Dun Laoghaire &#8211; Holyhead route.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>31\/3\/1992    <\/td><td>Laid up.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/4\/1993    <\/td><td>Docking at Skipsdokk S\u00f8r A\/S, Kristiansand    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/1993    <\/td><td>Sold to EPA Investor No II, Limassol, Cyprus. New name Ambassador.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/1993    <\/td><td>Charter to New Olympic Ferries Ltd. Patras &#8211; Igoumenitsa &#8211; Bari route.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/1994    <\/td><td>Laid up at Genoa after  operator went bankrupt.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8\/3\/1994    <\/td><td>Owner EPA Investor Il Sociedad en Comandita Por Acciones (EPA Invest A\/S), Panama.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9\/3\/1994    <\/td><td>New name Ambassador II.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20\/5\/1994    <\/td><td>Charter to COTUNAV Tunis &#8211; Napoli &#8211; Genova route    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>31\/10\/1994    <\/td><td>Docking at Fredericia Skibsv\u00e6rft A\/S, Fredericia    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/12\/1994    <\/td><td>Charter to Tallink.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10\/12\/1994    <\/td><td>Tallinn &#8211; Travem\u00fcnde route.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14\/1\/1995    <\/td><td>Main engine broke down. Laid up at Travem\u00fcnde.     <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>30\/3-4\/5\/1995    <\/td><td>Repaired in HDW Kiel.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/1995    <\/td><td>Charter to COMANAV S\u00e8te &#8211; Nador route.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10\/1995    <\/td><td>Laid up.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10\/1996    <\/td><td>Charter to National Maritime Transport Co, Benghazi, Libya Tripolis &#8211; Valletta route.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11\/1996    <\/td><td>Laid up.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/1997    <\/td><td>Sold to Sterling Shipping One LLC, Liberia.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/5\/97-1\/4\/1999    <\/td><td>Rebuild to casino day cruise ship byA&amp;P Appledore, UK .    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6\/1999    <\/td><td>Bahamas flag.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/1999    <\/td><td>Day cruises from Port Canaveral, USA. Management International Shipping Partners.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6\/7\/2008    <\/td><td>Cruises cancelled.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>22\/7\/2008    <\/td><td>Laid up at Orange, Texas, USA.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16\/1\/2011    <\/td><td>Sold to scrap for New Orleans, USA.    <\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to\u00a0Ship \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 History LOI Building contract Building started 8\/8\/1969 Keel laid 21\/2\/1970 Launch Sea trial Second sea trial 6\/6\/1970 Delivered to Delivered to Bonnierf\u00f6retagen Ab , Halmstad, Sverige (Lion Ferry) . 8\/6\/1970 Prinzen Linie service Bremerhaven &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=17121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":17110,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17121","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=17121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17122,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17121\/revisions\/17122"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}