{"id":19604,"date":"2020-01-12T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=19604"},"modified":"2025-05-17T22:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T20:16:04","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=19604","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/td>LOI<\/td><\/tr>
22\/12\/1978<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
8\/1979<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1\/1980<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
21\/6\/1980<\/td>Delivered to Rederi AB Sally, Mariehamn, Finland.<\/td><\/tr>
27\/6\/1980 <\/td>Helsinki – Stockholm route operated Viking Line <\/td><\/tr>
6\/1982 <\/td>Sold to Suomen Yritysrahoitus OY, charter back to Rederi AB Sally <\/td><\/tr>
1985<\/td>Ground near Sandhamn, Stockholm archipelago, repaired on drydock <\/td><\/tr>
29\/4\/1986 <\/td>Last day on Viking Line service Helsinki – Stockholm route <\/td><\/tr>
5\/1986 <\/td>Refurbished to using cruises on W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 Helsinki shipyard. <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Fire on engine room extinguished by the shipyard staff. <\/td><\/tr>
5\/1986 <\/td>New name Sally Albatross, Mariehamn, Finland<\/td><\/tr>
16\/5\/1986 <\/td>Start to cruises from Helsinki to Baltic Sea , mostly 25 hour cruises to sea ,
also Leningrad and Visby cruises. Operated by Sally Cruises. <\/td><\/tr>
2\/1987 <\/td>Rederi AB Sally sold to Effjohn (Silja Line) <\/td><\/tr>
1987 <\/td>Build new Sky Bar. <\/td><\/tr>
6\/1-16\/2\/1988 <\/td>Rebuild on Schichau Seebeckwerft AG, Bremerhaven.
Build new suites, originaly small cabins replaced to larger cabins. <\/td><\/tr>
2\/1988 <\/td>Continue cruises to Baltic sea <\/td><\/tr>
2\/1989 <\/td>New owner Partrederiet Sally Albatross. <\/td><\/tr>
1\/1990 <\/td>Drydock on Nacka shipyard on Sweden. Refurbished on restaurants,
nightclub and conference facilities<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1\/1990 <\/td>Fire started on repairs and sprinkler system was turned off for the docking. <\/td><\/tr>
12\/1\/1990 <\/td>Ship burned uncontrollably for three days. It maek heavily damages, only ships
engineroom and some under car deck parts of ship saved.<\/td><\/tr>
25-27\/6\/1990 <\/td>Ship towed to M\u00e4ntyluoto, Finland where removed all sructures over cardeck. <\/td><\/tr>
27\/6\/1990 <\/td>Contract to rebuild ship on Rauma Yards Oy, Finland <\/td><\/tr>
9\/1990 <\/td>Hull towed to Naantali, where it cut into several sections. Then moved to Rauma where
start to rebuild a ship. Ships hull lengthened for 13 meters.<\/td><\/tr>
25\/7\/1991 <\/td>Launch and nemed again Sally Albatross <\/td><\/tr>
5\/2\/1992 <\/td>Delivered to Sally AB, Mariehamn, Finland <\/td><\/tr>
25\/3\/1992 <\/td>Maiden voyage from Helsinki to Tallinn <\/td><\/tr>
26\/3\/1992 <\/td>Cuises to Tallinn. Summer season cruises to St. Petersburg, Visby and fridays to Tallinn. <\/td><\/tr>
16\/7-17\/8 1992 <\/td>Chartered to Svea 92 (a Swedish consortium for advancing exports) as a hotel and conference
ship for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona<\/td><\/tr>
17\/8\/1992 <\/td>Back to normal cruise schedule Cruises to Visby and St. Petersburg , Winter time 24 hour cruises to Tallinn. <\/td><\/tr>
4\/3\/1994 <\/td>Ran aground on thick ice sea outside of Porkkala. She was towed to shallow waters and
her passengers evacuated to Ice Breakers and ferry Saint Patrick II.<\/td><\/tr>
16\/4-20\/4\/1994 <\/td>Afloaded again and towed to Vuosaari Shipyard, Helsinki. <\/td><\/tr>
Summer 1994 <\/td>Bottom repaired and removed those parts interior witch was under water. <\/td><\/tr>
10\/1994 <\/td>Towed to I.N.M.A Shipyard, La Spezia, Italy, where rebuilding takes few months. <\/td><\/tr>
10\/1994 <\/td>Charter to Norwegian Cruise Line, named to Leeward, Panama Flag <\/td><\/tr>
7\/1995 <\/td>Delivered to NCL. Cruises to Caribbean. <\/td><\/tr>
1997<\/td>Collides with Great Mayan Reef near Cancun <\/td><\/tr>
12\/1999 <\/td>End of Charter to NCL , new contract charter ship to Star Cruises. Drydocking and refurbished. <\/td><\/tr>
3\/2000 <\/td>Named Superstar Taurus , delivered to Star Cruises , Cruises around Asia. Mostly Fukuoka – Busan cruises <\/td><\/tr>
12\/3\/2000 <\/td>Maiden voyage from Pusan, South korea to Kobe and Fukuoka, Japan <\/td><\/tr>
12\/2001 <\/td>Star Cruises broke the charter contract and next month ship moved back to Europe. <\/td><\/tr>
16\/2-6\/2002 <\/td>Arrived to Naantali shiprepair yard and refurbished <\/td><\/tr>
21\/5\/2002 <\/td>Named to Silja Opera and Sweden flag. <\/td><\/tr>
6\/2002 <\/td>Small fire on battery room, extinguished by the ships crew. <\/td><\/tr>
29\/6\/2002 <\/td>Back in Silja Line service, cruises from Helsinki to Tallinn, Visby and Riga and St. Petersburg. <\/td><\/tr>
17\/9\/2003 <\/td>Silja Opera collided with three cargo vessels at St.Petersburg harbour on 17.9.2003. The ship was on her way from
St.Petersburg to Helsinki<\/td><\/tr>
12\/11\/2003 <\/td>Silja Opera collided with ice breakers at St.Petersburg harbour on 12.11.2003. The ship was on her way from
St.Petersburg to Helsinki.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/10\/2004 <\/td>Stockholm – Mariehamn – Tallinn cruises <\/td><\/tr>
4\/2\/2005 <\/td>Helsinki – Tallinn cruises <\/td><\/tr>
Summer 2005 > <\/td>Cruises from Helsinki to Visby, St. Petersburg and Tallinn <\/td><\/tr>
10\/1\/2006 <\/td>Turku – Mariehamn – Kapellsk\u00e4r route, replaced Silja Europa <\/td><\/tr>
13\/2\/2006 <\/td>Last arrival to Turku <\/td><\/tr>
15-16\/2\/2006 <\/td>Ship moved to Stockholm , where laid up for sale. <\/td><\/tr>
21-25\/5\/2006 <\/td>Ship moved to Tilbury, UK. Laid up for sale <\/td><\/tr>
14\/7\/2006 <\/td>New owner Sea Containers Opera Ltd. Named to Opera, Bahamas flag. <\/td><\/tr>
10\/5\/2007 <\/td>Sold to Opera Acquisition, LLC (Louis Cruise Lines) <\/td><\/tr>
6\/2007 <\/td>Refurbished on Eleusis Shipyards, Greece <\/td><\/tr>
7\/2007 <\/td>Named to Cristal and Greece flag <\/td><\/tr>
23\/7\/2007 <\/td>Cruises on Mediterranean <\/td><\/tr>
1\/8\/2008<\/td>Collision on Piraeus harbour between Cristal and Anek Lines ferry Lissos <\/td><\/tr>
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1\/3\/2011 <\/td>New name Louis Cristal <\/td><\/tr>
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Summer 2012 <\/td>Cruises from Piraeus and Istanbul <\/td><\/tr>
11\/2013<\/td>Charter to Cuba Cruises , <\/td><\/tr>
12\/2013<\/td>Cruises from Havana, Cuba.<\/td><\/tr>
10-12\/2015<\/td>Build more balconys at Perama.<\/td><\/tr>
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31\/8\/2023<\/td>Laid up at Lavrio, Greece.<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Sold to new owner.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/2024<\/td>New name New Dawn.<\/td><\/tr>
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4\/2025<\/td>Sold to Voyage Shipping Inc, Monrovia, Liberia. New name Sun Bright.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/5\/2025<\/td>Sold to Prime Spot Ship Trading Inc. New name Right. Comoros flag.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/5\/2025<\/td>Beached at Alang, India. Scrapped.<\/td><\/tr>
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