{"id":6164,"date":"2017-12-25T09:34:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T07:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=6164"},"modified":"2025-06-08T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T17:27:11","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=6164","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                 History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
 <\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Start of Production<\/td><\/tr>
8\/1980<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1981<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
15\/6\/1981<\/td>Delivered to Gedser-Travem\u00fcnde Ruten A\/S, Denmark.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/1981<\/td>Gedser-Travem\u00fcnde route.<\/td><\/tr>
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1986<\/td>Operator change name to GT – Linien<\/td><\/tr>
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1988<\/td>Sold to GT-Link, New name Travem\u00fcnde Link<\/td><\/tr>
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12\/1988<\/td>Sold to Rederi AB Gotland. Sweden . Charter to Sally Line UK, New name Sally Star , Bahamas flag.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1988<\/td>Ramsgate – Dunkerque route.<\/td><\/tr>
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13\/4\/1997<\/td>Last day on Sally Line UK service.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/5 – 14\/9\/1997<\/td>Charter to Silja Line , artist name “Wasa Express” Vaasa – Ume\u00e5 route.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/9\/1997<\/td>Rebuild on Lloyd-Werft , Germany<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1997<\/td>New name Thjelvar.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1\/1998<\/td>Destination Gotland service Visby – Oskarshamn and Visby – Nyn\u00e4shamn routes.<\/td><\/tr>
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12\/2003<\/td>Charter to Color Line<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2004<\/td>Rebuild on Fredericia, Denmark<\/td><\/tr>
2\/2004<\/td>New name Color Traveller . Norwegian flag.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/2004<\/td>Charter to Color Line Larvik – Hirtshal and Larvik – Frederikshamn (summer)  routes<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2006<\/td>End of charter, returned to Rederi AB Gotland . Name changed to Thjelvar and had Swedish flag.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2006<\/td>Laid up on Visby.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2007<\/td>Charter to Scandlines. New name Rostock , German flag<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2007<\/td>Rostock – Gedser route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2008<\/td>Laid up Rostock , later Sassnitz<\/td><\/tr>
6\/2009 – 8\/2010<\/td>Charter to Comarit , Almeria – Nador route.<\/td><\/tr>
27\/8\/2010<\/td>Drydocking on Landskrona.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2010<\/td>Laid up Norrk\u00f6ping. Thjelvar again and Swedish flag<\/td><\/tr>
8\/2011<\/td>Charter to Fred Olsen. New name Betancuria, Spain flag.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/8\/2011<\/td>Arrived to Vigo.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/2011<\/td>Las Palmas – Morro Jable – Arrecife route<\/td><\/tr>
9\/2012<\/td>End of Charter to Fred Olsen<\/td><\/tr>
17\/10\/2012<\/td>Reported sold to  NLC Ferry ( Cities of Vaasa and Ume\u00e5) . Planned start  Vaasa – Ume\u00e5 route on<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>January 2013.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/10\/2012<\/td>Voyage from Las Palmas to Vaasa . Will be named Wasa Express later  this year.<\/td><\/tr>
28\/10\/2012<\/td>Arrived to Vaasa<\/td><\/tr>
11\/2012<\/td>New name Wasa Express<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1\/2013<\/td>Vaasa – Ume\u00e5 route<\/td><\/tr>
18-23\/1\/2013<\/td>Departures cancelled due to heating problems<\/td><\/tr>
28\/10\/4\/11\/2013<\/td>Drydocking at Kopli.<\/td><\/tr>
7-9\/1\/2014<\/td>Drydocking at Naantali, repairing bowthruster.<\/td><\/tr>
7\/12\/2014<\/td>Departures cancelled due to technical problems<\/td><\/tr>
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6-20\/1\/2019<\/td>Drydocking at Kopli, Estonia.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2021<\/td>Sold to United marine Egypt (UME) <\/td><\/tr>
 26\/8\/2021<\/td> Last day on Vaasa- Ume\u00e5 service.<\/td><\/tr>
 30\/8\/2021<\/td> Delivered to United Marine Egypt. Cyprus flag.<\/td><\/tr>
 1-29\/9\/2021<\/td> Drydocking at Turku Repairing Yard, Naantali, Finland<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                    History   Building contract   Start of Production 8\/1980 Keel laid 1\/1981 Launch 15\/6\/1981 Delivered to Gedser-Travem\u00fcnde Ruten A\/S, Denmark. 6\/1981 Gedser-Travem\u00fcnde route.     1986 Operator change name to GT – Linien     1988 … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6150,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6164","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=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42179,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6164\/revisions\/42179"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}