{"id":32399,"date":"2022-08-17T20:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=32399"},"modified":"2022-08-26T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T18:54:56","slug":"mirage-i-history-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=32399","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1971<\/td>Building contract with Fearnley & Eger, Oslo<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1971<\/td>Keel laid <\/td><\/tr>
12\/1971<\/td>Sold to Lion Ferry. Management Fred. Olsen, Oslo<\/td><\/tr>
13\/6\/1972<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
22\/1\/1973<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
15\/2\/1973<\/td>Delivered to Fred Olsen A\/S, Oslo, Norway<\/td><\/tr>
17\/2\/1973<\/td>Charter to Prinzen Line. <\/td><\/tr>
17\/2\/1973<\/td>Bremerhaven – Harwich and Hamburg – Harwich routes.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/3\/1973<\/td>Transatlantic between Bremerhaven and New York. Carry full load of cars.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/5\/1973<\/td>Prince of Fundy Line service between Portland – Yarmouth. Co-operation with Lion Line.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/9\/1973<\/td>Commodore Cruise Line service<\/td><\/tr>
1\/6\/1974<\/td>Prince Of Fundy Line service.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/9\/1974<\/td>Commodore Cruise Line service.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/6\/1975<\/td>Prince Of Fundy Line service.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/9\/1975<\/td>Commodore Cruise Line service.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/6\/1976<\/td>Prince Of Fundy Line service.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1976<\/td>Charter to Nato.<\/td><\/tr>
9-10\/1976<\/td>Refurbished by Akers Mekaniske Verksted, Oslo, Norway<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1976<\/td>Charter to Bergenske D\/SA\/S, Bergen, Norway<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1976<\/td>Bergen – Stavanger – Newcastle and Bergen – Kristiansand – Newcastle routes.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/4\/1978<\/td>Charter to Stena Line , Sweden. New name Scandinavica.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1978<\/td>G\u00f6reborg – Kiel route and short periods other routes.<\/td><\/tr>
14\/9\/1981<\/td>End of charter . New name Bolero.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/81-1\/82<\/td>Build 3rd car deck by Frederikshavns V\u00e6rft, Frederikshavn, Denmark.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1\/1982<\/td>Kristiansand – Frederikshavn route , operated Fred. Olsen<\/td><\/tr>
2\/2\/1982<\/td>Kristiansand – Hirtshals route.<\/td><\/tr>
23\/9\/1982<\/td>Hirtshals – Stavanger – Bergen route.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/5\/1983<\/td>Fire onboard. Repaired at Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/6\/1983<\/td>Back in service.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/1985<\/td>Charter to Vaasanlaivat OY. Vaasa – Sundsvall route.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1985<\/td>Hirtshals – Kristiansand – Egersund – Stavanger – Bergen route operated Fred. Olsen.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Summer service Kristiansand – Hirtshals and Kristiansand – Harwich routes.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1990<\/td>Rebuild main deck back to cabins by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/6\/1990<\/td>Bergen – Stavanger – Hirtshals and Molde – \u00c5lesund – M\u00e5l\u00f8y – Bergen – Newcastle routes.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/12\/1990<\/td>Operator Color Line.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1\/1991<\/td>Kristiansand – Hirtshals route. summer service Oslo – Hirtshals route.<\/td><\/tr>
24\/4\/1994<\/td>Charter to SF Line , Mariehamn.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/5\/1994<\/td>Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellsk\u00e4r route.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1994<\/td>Docking at Sandefjord.<\/td><\/tr>
10-11\/1994<\/td>Rebuild by Haugesund Mekaniske Verksted. New name Crucero Express.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1994<\/td>Bahamas flag. <\/td><\/tr>
2\/12\/1994<\/td>Charter to Linea Crucero Express. Cartagena – Cristobal route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1996<\/td>Chartered to Emerald Empress Holdings Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas. New name Seminole Empress.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/1998<\/td>Voyage from Tampa to Fredericia, Denmark. Back in Color line management. Laid up.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/2\/1999<\/td>Sold to Caspi Shipping Ltd, Haifa, Israel. New name Magic I.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1999<\/td>Rebuild Eleusis, Greece.<\/td><\/tr>
2000<\/td>Cruises from Israel operated Magic Cruise Lines.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/2003<\/td>Charter to Ocean Club Cruises, USA. New name Mirage.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
1\/2004<\/td>Company went bankrupt. Laid up at Cape Canaveral.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/2004<\/td>Sold by auction to Isramco Inc, Nassau, Bahamas. New name Mirage 1.<\/td><\/tr>
2005<\/td>Operated Caspi Cruises.<\/td><\/tr>
2006<\/td>Owner Mirage 1 Cruise Line Co, Nassau, Bahamas.<\/td><\/tr>
2010<\/td>Operated Yannay Cruises.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2011<\/td>Company goes bankrupt.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/3\/2012<\/td>Scrapped Aliaga, Turkey<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                     History LOI 1971 Building contract with Fearnley & Eger, Oslo Building started 11\/1971 Keel laid 12\/1971 Sold to Lion Ferry. Management Fred. Olsen, Oslo 13\/6\/1972 Launch 22\/1\/1973 Sea trial Second sea trial 15\/2\/1973 Delivered to … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32336,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32399","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32399","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=32399"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32411,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32399\/revisions\/32411"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}