{"id":2589,"date":"2017-11-18T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=2589"},"modified":"2024-01-28T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T14:44:29","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=2589","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                          History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
27\/5\/1972<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Start of Production<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
17\/3\/1973<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
30\/6\/1973<\/td>Delivered to SF-Line, Mariehamn, \u00c5land.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/7\/1973<\/td>Viking Line service  Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellsk\u00e4r route.<\/td><\/tr>
21\/9\/1973<\/td>Grounded near Bj\u00f6rk\u00f6n , \u00c5land sea<\/td><\/tr>
10\/10-3\/11\/1973<\/td>Repaired at  Finnboda Varvet, Stockholm.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1981<\/td>Laid up at Mariehamn<\/td><\/tr>
20\/1\/1982<\/td>Sold to Irish Continental Group Ltd, Ireland<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1982<\/td>Rebuild  more cabins on Amsterdamsche Droogdok, Amsterdam. New name Saint Patrick II.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/6\/1982<\/td>Rosslare – Le Havre route. Irish Ferries service.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1982<\/td>Charter to Belfast Car Ferries, Liverpool – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
21\/11\/1982<\/td>Charter to North Sea Ferries, Rotterham – Hull route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/4\/1983<\/td>Laid up<\/td><\/tr>
21\/4\/1983<\/td>Charter to Belfast Car Ferries, Liverpool – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
22\/6\/1983<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries service.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1983<\/td>Charter to Belfast Car Ferries, Liverpool – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1984<\/td>Charter to B&I Line. Dublin – Liverpool and Dublin – Holyhead routes<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1984<\/td>Charter to Belfast Car Ferries, Liverpool – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1985<\/td>Charter to DFDS A\/S Hamburg – Harwich  route, later Cuxhaven – Harwich route.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1985<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1985<\/td>Charter to DFDS A\/S Hamburg – Harwich  route<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1985<\/td>Charter to Stena Line Moss – Fredrikshavn – G\u00f6teborg route.<\/td><\/tr>
\/24\/5\/1986<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1986<\/td>Charter to Belfast Car Ferries, Liverpool – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1986<\/td>Laid up at Birkenhead<\/td><\/tr>
31\/12\/1986<\/td>Irish Ferries service Rosslare – Cherbourg and Rosslare – Le Havre routes.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1987<\/td>Charter to Belfast Car Ferries, Liverpool – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1988<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1988<\/td>Charter to B&I Line. Rosslare – Pembroke route.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/4\/1989<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/9\/1989<\/td>Charter to Sealink UK. Portsmouth – Canal islands – Cherbourg routes.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1989<\/td>Calais – Dover route operated Sealink.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1990<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1990<\/td>Charter to P&O Ferries Dover – Zeebr\u00fcgge route.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1991<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
13\/2-4\/3\/1992<\/td>Charter to B&I Line. Rosslare – Pembroke route.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/3\/1992<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1\/1993<\/td>Charter to Tallink (ESCO) Estonian flag  . Tallinn – Helsinki route.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/5\/1993<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries. Ireland flag.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/9\/1993<\/td>Charter to Tallink (ESCO) Estonian flag  . Tallinn – Helsinki route.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/3\/1994<\/td>Sally Albatross passengers evacuated to Saint Patrick II after  S.A. grounded at Porkkala.<\/td><\/tr>
31\/3\/1994<\/td>Last day at Tallink service<\/td><\/tr>
1\/4\/1994<\/td>Back to Irish Ferries. Ireland flag.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1994<\/td>Dublin – Holyhead route.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1994<\/td>Rosslare – Cherbourg and Rosslare – Le Havre routes<\/td><\/tr>
19\/3\/1995<\/td>Fire on engine room. Only small dameges.<\/td><\/tr>
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7\/9\/1996<\/td>Laid up at Le Havre<\/td><\/tr>
5\/1998<\/td>Charter to Hellenic Mediterranen Lines, Valletta, Malta. New name Egnattia III<\/td><\/tr>
34\/6\/1998<\/td>Brindisi – Patras route.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2000<\/td>Charter to Balear Express, New name Ville de Sete. Portugal flag.<\/td><\/tr>
13\/5\/2000<\/td>S\u00e9te – Palma route<\/td><\/tr>
15\/9\/2000<\/td>Balear Express went bankrupt. Laid up<\/td><\/tr>
29\/9\/2000<\/td>Laid up at Piraeus.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/3\/2001<\/td>Charter to Swansea Cork Ferries , New name City of Cork. Swansea – Cork route.<\/td><\/tr>
2001<\/td>Malta flag.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2001<\/td>Laid up at Piraeus.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/3\/2002<\/td>Sold to Goverment of Canada, Cap-aux-Meules, Canada.<\/td><\/tr>
22\/5\/2002<\/td>New name C.T.M.A. Vacancier. Canada flag.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/6\/2002<\/td>Montreal – Cap-aux-Meules route.<\/td><\/tr>
autumn 2002<\/td>Laid up at Cap-aux-Meules and refurbished<\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/td>Rebuild<\/td><\/tr>
2008<\/td>Refurbished<\/td><\/tr>
26\/1\/2009<\/td>Stuck in ice St Lawrence river.  Continue voyages next day.<\/td><\/tr>
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 13\/11\/2023<\/td> Sold to Super Shining Shipping Corp. New name Ancier. St.Kitts and Nevis flag<\/td><\/tr>
\u00a028\/1\/2024<\/td> Voyage to Alang, India and scrapping?<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                           History 27\/5\/1972 Building contract   Start of Production   Keel laid 17\/3\/1973 Launch 30\/6\/1973 Delivered to SF-Line, Mariehamn, \u00c5land. 3\/7\/1973 Viking Line service  Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellsk\u00e4r route. 21\/9\/1973 Grounded near Bj\u00f6rk\u00f6n , \u00c5land sea 10\/10-3\/11\/1973 Repaired at  Finnboda … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2578,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2589","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2589","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=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36604,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2589\/revisions\/36604"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}