{"id":18014,"date":"2019-10-30T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T07:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=18014"},"modified":"2025-02-28T20:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T18:42:49","slug":"history-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=18014","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n
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19\/11\/2002<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
19\/10\/2003<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
15\/4\/2004<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
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8\/11\/2004<\/td>Delivered to Birka Cruises, Mariehamn, Finland.<\/td><\/tr>
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3\/6\/2009 <\/td>Swedish flag. Home port Stockholm. <\/td><\/tr>
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17\/1\/2013 <\/td>New name Birka Stockholm. <\/td><\/tr>
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16\/3\/2020<\/td>Traffic suspended due to Corona virus.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/7\/2020<\/td>Birka Cruises ceased all operations. Laid up for sale.<\/td><\/tr>
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27\/3\/2023<\/td>Sold to Rederi AB Gotland, Visby, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Operated joint venture by Rederi AB Gotland and Viking Line<\/td><\/tr>
6-8\/2\/2024<\/td>Drydocking on \u00d6resunds Drydocks, Landskrona<\/td><\/tr>
23\/2\/2024<\/td>New name Birka Gotland. Operated Viking Line.<\/td><\/tr>
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20\/3\/2024<\/td>Stockholm – Mariehamn and Stockholm – Mariehamn – Visby cruises. Baltic sea cruises from Stockholm.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/10\/2024<\/td>Owner Gotland Cruises Ab, Visby, Sweden.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                     History LOI 19\/11\/2002 Building contract Building started 19\/10\/2003 Keel laid 15\/4\/2004 Launch Sea trial Second sea trial 8\/11\/2004 Delivered to Birka Cruises, Mariehamn, Finland. 3\/6\/2009 Swedish flag. Home port Stockholm. 17\/1\/2013 New name Birka Stockholm. … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":17934,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18014","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18014","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=18014"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40996,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18014\/revisions\/40996"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}