{"id":18384,"date":"2019-11-13T07:47:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=18384"},"modified":"2019-11-20T06:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:53:11","slug":"history-royal-clipper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=18384","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back to\u00a0Ship<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 History<\/h3>\n\n\n
<\/td>LOI<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1952 <\/td>Launch and named by Mrs. Disan von Rettig, wife of Dr. Hans von Rettig. <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
10\/12\/1952 <\/td>Delivered to \u00c5ngfartygs AB Bore, Turku, Finland. <\/td><\/tr>
12\/12\/1952 <\/td>Voyage from Oskarshamn to Turku. <\/td><\/tr>
19\/12\/1952 <\/td>Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
12\/5\/1960 <\/td>Helsinki – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
6\/9\/1960 <\/td>Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
25\/9\/1960 <\/td>Helsinki – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
6\/10\/1960 <\/td>Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
12\/10\/1960 <\/td>Helsinki – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
27\/12\/60-16\/2\/61 <\/td>Docking at Crichton-Vulcan, Turku. <\/td><\/tr>
17\/2-19\/4\/1961 <\/td>Laid up at Turku <\/td><\/tr>
27\/4\/1961 <\/td>Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
15\/5\/1961 <\/td>Helsinki – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
26\/9\/1961 <\/td>Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
27\/12\/1961 <\/td>Laid up at Turku <\/td><\/tr>
24\/4\/1962 <\/td>Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route. <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
30\/9\/1967 <\/td>Stockholm – mariehamn cruises <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
28\/4\/1969 <\/td>Ran aground at Rys\u00e4kari near Helsinki <\/td><\/tr>
12\/5\/1969 <\/td>Afloated, towed for repairing at Helsinki. <\/td><\/tr>
12\/5\/1969 <\/td>Back in service <\/td><\/tr>
1970<\/td>Silja Line logo painted to hull and operated under Silja Line brand. <\/td><\/tr>
28\/5\/1971 <\/td>Helsinki – Leningrad cruises <\/td><\/tr>
9\/1971 <\/td>Turku – Stockholm route and later Stockholm – Mariehamn cruises. <\/td><\/tr>
20\/3\/1972 <\/td>Docking. <\/td><\/tr>
28\/4\/1972 <\/td>Charter to Jakob Lines, Pietarsaari. <\/td><\/tr>
5\/1972 <\/td>Pietarsaari – Skellefte\u00e5 , Pietearsaari \/ Kokkola – Ume\u00e5 routes. <\/td><\/tr>
9\/1972 <\/td>Returned to Rederi AB Bore. <\/td><\/tr>
1973<\/td>Rebuild to cruise ship at Beckholmen, Stockholm. <\/td><\/tr>
28\/4\/1973 <\/td>Helsinki – Tallinn and Helsinki – Leningrad cruises for summer operated Bore. <\/td><\/tr>
1973<\/td>Turku – Stockholm route and Stockholm – Mariehamn cruises for winter , operated Silja Line <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
20\/9\/1976 <\/td>Laid up at Turku <\/td><\/tr>
24\/9\/1976 <\/td>Sold to Midwest Cruises Panama S.A., Panama <\/td><\/tr>
12\/10\/1976 <\/td>Delivered to new owners. New name Lowell Thomas Explorer. <\/td><\/tr>
10\/12\/1976 <\/td>Voyage from Turku to Jacksonville. <\/td><\/tr>
10\/5\/1977 <\/td>Laid up at Montreal. <\/td><\/tr>
15\/8\/1977 <\/td>Arrested and set to sell by auction. <\/td><\/tr>
14\/11\/1977 <\/td>Sold to Throughfun Co. Monrovia ( Josef Roth Reederei, Hamburg) <\/td><\/tr>
22\/11\/1977 <\/td>New name Royal Clipper. <\/td><\/tr>
6\/12\/1977 <\/td>Sunk at port of Montreal after fire in engineroom . CTL <\/td><\/tr>
20\/11\/1982 <\/td>Salvaged McAllister Towing & Salvage Ltd. towed to Port Maitland, Ontario. Scrapped by Port Maitland Shipbreaking Ltd. <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Keel laid 9\/1952 Launch and named by Mrs. Disan von Rettig, wife of Dr. Hans von Rettig. Sea trial Second sea trial 10\/12\/1952 Delivered to \u00c5ngfartygs AB Bore, … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":18372,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18384","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=18384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18385,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18384\/revisions\/18385"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}