{"id":7523,"date":"2018-01-15T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=7523"},"modified":"2022-04-08T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:33:07","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=7523","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                       History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
9\/1970<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
19\/7\/1971<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
17.12.1971<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
14\/4\/1972<\/td>Delivered to Rederi AB Sally, Mariehamn, \u00c5land<\/td><\/tr>
16\/4\/1972<\/td>Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellsk\u00e4r route, operated Viking Line<\/td><\/tr>
17\/12\/1972<\/td>Run aground between korppoo and Houtsk\u00e4r. Passengers evacuated<\/td><\/tr>
18\/12\/1972<\/td>Repaired on Uudenkaupungin Telakka OY, Finland<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1976<\/td>Sold to OY Vasa-Ume\u00e5 Oy<\/td><\/tr>
4\/5\/1976<\/td>Delivered, named to Wasa Express<\/td><\/tr>
7\/5\/1976<\/td>Vaasa – Sundsvall route<\/td><\/tr>
1-15\/10\/1977<\/td>Drydocking<\/td><\/tr>
7-15\/5\/1978<\/td>Drydocking<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1\/1979<\/td>Vaasa – Ume\u00e5 route<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1979<\/td>Company sold to Enso-Gutzeit OY and named Vaasanlaivat OY \/ Vasab\u00e5tarna AB<\/td><\/tr>
1983<\/td>.Vaasanlaivat sold to rederi AB Sally,continue same name<\/td><\/tr>
29\/3\/1983<\/td>Named Viking 3<\/td><\/tr>
12\/4\/1983<\/td>Sally Lines service<\/td><\/tr>
10\/4\/1984<\/td>Named Wasa Express back to Vaasanlaivat service same routes<\/td><\/tr>
summer 1984<\/td>Vaasa – Ume\u00e5 route<\/td><\/tr>
1986 -1988<\/td>Vaasa – Ume\u00e5 and Vaasa – \u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik route<\/td><\/tr>
8\/8\/1988<\/td>Sold to Ecker\u00f6 Line<\/td><\/tr>
31\/10\/1988<\/td>Last day to Vaasanlaivat service<\/td><\/tr>
1\/11\/1988<\/td>Delivered to Ecker\u00f6 Line, new name Roslagen<\/td><\/tr>
1988\/1989<\/td>Refurbished interior, build new Tax Free Market<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1989<\/td>Ecker\u00f6 Linjen service Ecker\u00f6 – Grisslehamn route.<\/td><\/tr>
23\/101992<\/td>Charter to Estonian New Line, Helsinki – Tallinn route, Estonian flag<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2\/1994<\/td>Back to Ecker\u00f6 Line service Ecker\u00f6 – Grisslehamn route<\/td><\/tr>
1998<\/td>Build new Cafe and Childrens Playroom on deck 5<\/td><\/tr>
2001<\/td>Build sponsons on Alandia Yard<\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/td>Build bigger sundeck<\/td><\/tr>
20\/8\/2007<\/td>Laid up for sale<\/td><\/tr>
13-15\/11\/2007<\/td>Sold to Agoudimos Lines, Greece, named Ionian Spirit, St Vincent and The Grenadines flag<\/td><\/tr>
10\/7\/2008<\/td>Igoumenitsa – Brindisi route<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2008<\/td>Main engine failure, repaired at Perama.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/2010<\/td>Brindisi – Vlore route<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2011<\/td>Chartered to International Organization for migration, for Libya evacutions.<\/td><\/tr>
25\/4\/2011<\/td>Arrived Vlore<\/td><\/tr>
Winter 2011\/2012<\/td>Laid up<\/td><\/tr>
26\/3\/2012<\/td>Arrested by Brindisi port authority<\/td><\/tr>
Summer  2012<\/td>Igoumenitsa – Brindisi route<\/td><\/tr>
19\/7\/2012<\/td>Laid up at brindisi.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/10\/2016<\/td>Sold to Seamed trading Shipping SRL, Panama. New name St. Damian.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/2016<\/td>Sailed to Piraeus.<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>European Ferries service Brindisi – Albania routes.<\/td><\/tr>
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 1\/2022<\/td>Sold to scrap. <\/td><\/tr>
 4\/4\/2022<\/td> Departed under towing destination to Aliaga, Turkey. New name Ian.<\/td><\/tr>
\u00a07\/4\/2022<\/td>\u00a0Beeached Aliaga, Turkey. Scrapped.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                          History 9\/1970 Building contract 19\/7\/1971 Keel laid 17.12.1971 Launch 14\/4\/1972 Delivered to Rederi AB Sally, Mariehamn, \u00c5land 16\/4\/1972 Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellsk\u00e4r route, operated Viking Line 17\/12\/1972 Run aground between korppoo and … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7504,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7523","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=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31114,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7523\/revisions\/31114"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}