{"id":652,"date":"2017-10-22T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T10:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=652"},"modified":"2021-03-29T18:35:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:35:39","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=652","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>
25\/1\/1980<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
8\/1980<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
22\/12\/1980<\/td>Delivered to Ab Sk\u00e4rhamns Oljetransporter, Sk\u00e4rhamn, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
22\/12\/1980<\/td>Charter to Merivienti OY, Finland. Atlantic Cargo service.<\/td><\/tr>
30\/12\/1981<\/td>Sold to Merivienti OY, Finland.<\/td><\/tr>
1985<\/td>Sold to South Atlantic Cargo Shipping Co Ltd. Bahamas (Finnlines )<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1989<\/td>Sold to Windspoint Shipping Co Ltd, Gibraltar  ( Nord\u00f6-Link)<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1989<\/td>Arrived to Polish Marin Yard, Gdynia. Rebuild to Ro-pax \/ Train ferry.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/4\/1990<\/td>Owner Rederi Ab Nord\u00f6-Link, Malm\u00f6, Sweden.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/1990<\/td>Malm\u00f6 – Travem\u00fcnde service. New name Malm\u00f6 Link.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2007<\/td>Sold to Channel Ferries, Ltd, London, UK<\/td><\/tr>
24\/7\/2007<\/td>Delivered to Channel Ferries Ltd.<\/td><\/tr>
28\/7\/2007<\/td>Rebuild on Cammel Lairds, UK<\/td><\/tr>
8\/2007<\/td>New name Ropax 1<\/td><\/tr>
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1\/2008<\/td>Charter to Cotunav. Routes from Tunis to Europe.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2008<\/td>Owner Ropax 1 KS, London, UK<\/td><\/tr>
11\/2008<\/td>Charter to ERSAL<\/td><\/tr>
13\/12\/2008<\/td>Collision with another ship at Algeciras.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/2009<\/td>Back in service<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2009<\/td>Laid up at Greece.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2009<\/td>Charter to Adriatic Lines<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2009<\/td>Ravenna – Corinth service<\/td><\/tr>
6\/2010<\/td>Arrested and laid up on Corinth, Greece<\/td><\/tr>
7-20\/12\/2010<\/td>Charter to NEL Lines Corinth – Ancona route.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/12\/2010<\/td>Laid up on Corinth, Greece<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2011<\/td>New name Aqua Hercules<\/td><\/tr>
11\/2011<\/td>Charter to NEL Lines Corinth – Ancona route.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/12\/2011<\/td>Laid up on Corinth, Greece<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Unkown location or operations<\/td><\/tr>
4\/10\/2013<\/td>Arrived to Iskenderun, Turkey<\/td><\/tr>
\u00a02013<\/td>\u00a0Owner went bankrupt . Laid up outside of Iskenderun<\/td><\/tr>
\u00a028\/3\/2021<\/td>\u00a0The abandoned ro-ro freight and passenger ship Aqua Hercules was blown ashore in a storm north of Iskenderun in Turkey.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                     History   Building contract   Start of Production 25\/1\/1980 Keel laid 8\/1980 Launch 22\/12\/1980 Delivered to Ab Sk\u00e4rhamns Oljetransporter, Sk\u00e4rhamn, Sweden 22\/12\/1980 Charter to Merivienti OY, Finland. Atlantic Cargo service. 30\/12\/1981 Sold to Merivienti OY, … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":645,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-652","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27162,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/652\/revisions\/27162"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}