{"id":631,"date":"2017-10-22T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T10:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=631"},"modified":"2021-10-09T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T07:00:13","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=631","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
6\/1968<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
19\/12\/1969<\/td>Launch and named Apollo by Mrs. isabella Myrsten<\/td><\/tr>
29\/4\/1970<\/td>Delivered to Rederi AB Slite, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
2\/5\/1970<\/td>Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellsk\u00e4r route, operated Viking Line<\/td><\/tr>
1975<\/td>Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route<\/td><\/tr>
autumn 1975<\/td>Stockholm – Mariehamn route<\/td><\/tr>
2\/3\/1976<\/td>Last day on Viking Line service<\/td><\/tr>
12\/3\/1976<\/td>Sold to Olau Line, Denmark flag, new name Olau Kent.<\/td><\/tr>
1976<\/td>Olau Line service on  Vlissingen – Sheerness<\/td><\/tr>
10\/9\/1980<\/td>Arrested on Vlissingen<\/td><\/tr>
5\/11\/1980<\/td>Sold to Nordisk F\u00e6rgefart A\/S, denmark<\/td><\/tr>
12\/11\/1980<\/td>New name Gelting Nord.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1981<\/td>F\u00e5borg – Gelting route<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1982<\/td>Change new main engines by Svendborg skibsvaerft.<\/td><\/tr>
5-12\/1982<\/td>Charter to A\/S Kattegat on Sandefjord – Hundested route<\/td><\/tr>
1983<\/td>F\u00e5borg – Gelting route<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1984<\/td>Charter to Brittany Ferries, new name Benodet<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1984<\/td>Plymouth – Roscoff route<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1985<\/td>Charter to British Channel Island Ferries,  new name Corbi\u00e9re<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1985<\/td>Poole – Cherbourg route.<\/td><\/tr>
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5\/1989<\/td>Charter to Truckline Ferries, same route.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/8\/1990<\/td>Sold to Ecker\u00f6 Linjen. Continue to charter on Truckline Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
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3\/11\/1991<\/td>Charter to Estonian New Line, operate Helsinki – Tallinn route  using artist name Linda I.<\/td><\/tr>
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1\/1994<\/td>Charter to Tallink. Helsinki – Tallinn route.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1\/1994 – 23\/12\/1994<\/td>Helsinki – Tallinn route<\/td><\/tr>
27\/12\/1994<\/td>Docked on Kotkan telakka OY<\/td><\/tr>
5\/5\/1995<\/td>New name Apollo, operated by Eestin Linjat (Ecker\u00f6 Line and Birka Cruises) on Helsinki – Tallinn route.<\/td><\/tr>
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5\/11\/1998<\/td>Charter to hotelship on Vyborg.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1999<\/td>Charter to Nordisk F\u00e6rgefart A\/S, Denmark<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1999<\/td>Bagenkop – Kiel route<\/td><\/tr>
17\/3\/1999<\/td>Ground on near Bagenkop, Denmark.<\/td><\/tr>
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7\/1999<\/td>Laid up on Mariehamn for sale.<\/td><\/tr>
26\/1\/2000<\/td>Sold to Labrador Marine Inc, St John, N.F. Canada<\/td><\/tr>
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1\/5\/2000<\/td>St. Barbe, Newfoundland to Blanc Sablon in Quebec route<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Laid up winter months.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1\/2008<\/td>Small fire onboard.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2008<\/td>Delays due to ice.<\/td><\/tr>
3-4\/4\/2010<\/td>departures cancelled due to  technical problems<\/td><\/tr>
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17\/1\/2019<\/td>Sold to  Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des traversiers du Qu\u00e9bec (STQ), Canada for 1,4 m\u20ac<\/td><\/tr>
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16\/3\/2019<\/td>Hit a pier at Matane, Saint Lawrence River at the mouth of the Matane River, Canada.<\/td><\/tr>
 30\/3\/2019<\/td> Laid up at Quebec <\/td><\/tr>
 11\/2020<\/td> Sold to scrapping in Canada.Plans to sink a ship.<\/td><\/tr>
 2\/8\/2021<\/td> Towed to Aliaga, Turkey<\/td><\/tr>
 5\/9\/2021<\/td> Arrived in Aliaga<\/td><\/tr>
 10\/2021<\/td>\u00a0Beached in Aliaga, scrapped<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                     History 6\/1968 Building contract   Keel laid 19\/12\/1969 Launch and named Apollo by Mrs. isabella Myrsten 29\/4\/1970 Delivered to Rederi AB Slite, Sweden 2\/5\/1970 Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellsk\u00e4r route, operated Viking Line 1975 Turku … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":620,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29012,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631\/revisions\/29012"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}