{"id":5645,"date":"2017-12-21T18:50:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=5645"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:43:43","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=5645","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                  History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
2\/4\/1975<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
4\/11\/1975<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
12\/4\/1976<\/td>Delivered to Tor Line, G\u00f6teborg, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
15\/4\/1976<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Immingham , G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1977<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
1-2\/1979<\/td>Used as Exhibition Ship for Holland Expo in the Persian Gulf.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1979<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
17\/1 – 6\/3\/1980<\/td>Used as Exhibition Ship for Expo Scan Arab in the Middle East<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1980<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
1\/12\/1981<\/td>Sold to DFDS<\/td><\/tr>
10\/12\/1981<\/td>Delivered to DFDS Tor Line, Esbjerg, Denmark.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/12\/1981<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe route<\/td><\/tr>
25\/10\/1982<\/td>New name World Wide Expo. Used as Exhibition Ship for World Wide Expo<\/td><\/tr>
25\/2\/1983<\/td>Have back her own name Tor Scandinavia.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/3\/1983<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
1\/4\/1983<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
25\/9\/1983<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and Esbjerg – Harwich routes<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1988<\/td>Operator Scandinavian Seaways, DIS flag<\/td><\/tr>
23\/2\/1989<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and Esbjerg – Harwich routes<\/td><\/tr>
25\/9\/1989<\/td>Fire on engineroom. Repaired on HDW Nobiskrug, Germany<\/td><\/tr>
16\/6\/1990<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Newcastle routes.<\/td><\/tr>
27\/8\/1990<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
1\/11\/1990<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
7\/1\/1991<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and Esbjerg – Harwich routes<\/td><\/tr>
17\/1-16\/3\/1991<\/td>Rebuild new cabin area on deck 4. refurbished interior.<\/td><\/tr>
22\/2\/1991<\/td>New name Princess of Scandinavia<\/td><\/tr>
17\/3\/1991<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and Esbjerg – Harwich routes<\/td><\/tr>
5\/11\/1991<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
25\/3\/1992<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
13\/6\/1992<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and G\u00f6teborg – Newcastle routes<\/td><\/tr>
2\/11\/1992<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
1\/4\/1993<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and G\u00f6teborg – Newcastle routes<\/td><\/tr>
17\/2\/1994<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
16\/7\/1994<\/td>G\u00f6teborg \/ Esbjerg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and Esbjerg \/G\u00f6teborg – Newcastle routes<\/td><\/tr>
8\/9\/1994<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Ijmuiden route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1994<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and G\u00f6teborg – Newcastle routes<\/td><\/tr>
19\/9\/1995<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Newcastle and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
1998<\/td>Rebuild sponsons and upgrading to SOLAS 90.<\/td><\/tr>
1999<\/td>Operator change name to DFDS Seaways<\/td><\/tr>
2\/4\/1999<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Kristiansand – Newcastle route<\/td><\/tr>
2005<\/td>Build new Commodore Deluxe Lounge and cabins on deck 8. Refurbished restaurants.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2\/2006<\/td>Ijmuiden – Newcastle route<\/td><\/tr>
9\/3 – 31\/10\/2006<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Kristiansand – Newcastle route<\/td><\/tr>
2\/11\/2006<\/td>Delivered to Moby SPA , Genova , Italy. New name Moby Otta<\/td><\/tr>
Winter 2006\/2007<\/td>Rebuild<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2007<\/td>Genova – Porto Torres route<\/td><\/tr>
2009<\/td>Genova – Olbia route<\/td><\/tr>
2010<\/td>Livorno – Olbia routes<\/td><\/tr>
26\/9\/2010<\/td>Two people were killed when their car plunged off the ferry Moby Otta in Genoa.<\/td><\/tr>
Winter 2010\/11<\/td>Winter laid up at Genova, Italy.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2011<\/td>Genova – Olbia route<\/td><\/tr>
12\/9\/2011<\/td>Winter laid up at Genova, Italy.<\/td><\/tr>
24\/5\/2012<\/td>Genova – Olbia route<\/td><\/tr>
14\/10\/2012<\/td>Winter laid up at Genova, Italy.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/5-13\/10\/2013<\/td>Genova – Olbia route<\/td><\/tr>
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1\/10\/2025<\/td>Laid up for sale at Livorno, Italy.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/10\/2025<\/td>Sold to Hoiyu International Group Ltd, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
New name Elpis. St.Kitts and Nevis flag.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/12\/2025<\/td>Arrived to Penang, Malaysia.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/2026<\/td>Casino cruises from Penang. Two daily departures.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                   History Building contract 2\/4\/1975 Keel laid 4\/11\/1975 Launch 12\/4\/1976 Delivered to Tor Line, G\u00f6teborg, Sweden 15\/4\/1976 G\u00f6teborg – Immingham , G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes 10\/1977 G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5616,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5645","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5645","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=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44450,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5645\/revisions\/44450"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}