{"id":2915,"date":"2017-11-22T20:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T18:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=2915"},"modified":"2025-01-18T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T18:00:17","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=2915","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back to Ship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

                             History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
 <\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
27\/5\/1988<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
22\/10\/1988<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1989<\/td>Delivered to Rederi AB Slite, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
24\/4\/1989<\/td>Viking Line service Stockholm – Mariehamn route<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
4\/1993<\/td>Owner had financial difficulties and were forced to declare bankruptcy.<\/td><\/tr>
16\/8\/1993<\/td>Last day on Viking Line service<\/td><\/tr>
16\/8\/1993<\/td>Laid up for sale<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1993<\/td>Sold to Star Cruises and named Star Aquarius , Panama flag<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Journey from Sweden to Singapore<\/td><\/tr>
22\/10\/1993 – 12\/1993<\/td>Rebuild on Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore. Build new cabins and casino on cardeck also all parts of interior rebuild<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1993<\/td>New name Langkapuri Star Aquarius<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1994<\/td>Cruises from Singapore<\/td><\/tr>
7-13\/1\/1996<\/td>Drydocking on Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore.<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
1997\/1998<\/td>4 Days \/ 3 Nights cruise from Keelung to Naha and Motobu in Okinawa, Japan; 3 Days \/ 2 Nights cruise from Keelung to Hualien in<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Taiwan, ROC.<\/td><\/tr>
1998<\/td>Overnigth Casino cruises from Hong Kong<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
11\/1\/2001<\/td>Sold to DFDS A\/S Denmark, new name Aquarius<\/td><\/tr>
2\/2001<\/td>Delivered to DFDS A\/S on Laem Chabang, Bangkok<\/td><\/tr>
3\/2001<\/td>Aquarius arrived back in Europe<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2001<\/td>Rebuild back to carferry on Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. New name Pearl of scandinavia. Denmarks flag<\/td><\/tr>
5-6\/2001<\/td>Rebuld public areas on \u00c5lborg, Denmark<\/td><\/tr>
26\/6\/2001<\/td>Maiden voyage on DFDS Seaways fleet on Copenhagen – Helsingborg – Oslo route<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
1\/2002<\/td>Rebuild on Copenhagen<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
1-2\/2005<\/td>Refurbished on \u00d6resundsvarvet, Landskrona, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
10\/2006<\/td>Copenhagen – Oslo route<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
17\/11\/2010<\/td>6 AM Fire on cardeck.<\/td><\/tr>
23\/11\/2010<\/td>Back on service Copenhagen – Oslo route.<\/td><\/tr>
8-22\/1\/2011<\/td>Drydocking Lindo Shipyard, Odense , Denamrk , new name Pearl Seaways<\/td><\/tr>
5-6\/2011<\/td>Refurbished  public areas , build casino<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1\/2012<\/td>Many hours delay due to storm<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
1\/2017<\/td>Drydocking at \u00d6resundsvarvet, Landskrona, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
16\/3\/2020 <\/td>  Traffic suspended due to Corona virus.<\/td><\/tr>
26\/6\/2020<\/td>Copenhagen – Oslo and Copenhagen – Frederikshavn – Oslo routes.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/6\/2024<\/td>\u00a0Sold to Rederi Ab Gotland, Sweden.<\/td><\/tr>
31\/10\/2024<\/td>\u00a0Delivered to new owner Alvina Shipping A\/S, Copenhagen, Denmark (Rederi AB Gotland)<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1\/2025<\/td> Drydocking at \u00d6resundsvarvet, Landskrona, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
15\/1\/2025<\/td> New name Nordic Pearl.<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back to Ship                                History   Building contract 27\/5\/1988 Keel laid 22\/10\/1988 Launch 4\/1989 Delivered to Rederi AB Slite, Sweden 24\/4\/1989 Viking Line service Stockholm – Mariehamn route     4\/1993 Owner had financial difficulties and were forced to declare bankruptcy. 16\/8\/1993 … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2895,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2915","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915","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=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40644,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915\/revisions\/40644"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}