{"id":7949,"date":"2018-01-22T20:56:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T18:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=7949"},"modified":"2024-09-22T08:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:10:41","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=7949","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>
 <\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
16\/7\/1981<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1982<\/td>Delivered to Delpa Maritime, Cyprus<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1982<\/td>Charter to Rederi Ab Nord\u00f6, Malm\u00f6.  Malm\u00f6 – Travem\u00fcnde route.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1982<\/td>Engineroom fire. Towed back to Travem\u00fcnde.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1983<\/td>Owner  had economical problems.<\/td><\/tr>
1984<\/td>Sold by auction to Stena Line, Sweden. New name Stena Driver.<\/td><\/tr>
1984<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Travem\u00fcnde route.<\/td><\/tr>
1984<\/td>Owner Stena Challenger Ltd. , Bahamas.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/1985<\/td>Moss – Frederikshavn route<\/td><\/tr>
22\/5\/1985<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Travem\u00fcnde route.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1985<\/td>Owner Sealink (UK) Ltd, Bahamas New name Seafreigth Freeway.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1985<\/td>Rebuild at Dunkerque.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1986<\/td>Laid up<\/td><\/tr>
7\/1986<\/td>Sealink Brittish Ferries service Dover – Dunkerque route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1988<\/td>Laid up<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1988<\/td>Sold to Navigation Maritime Bulgare, Bulgaria<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1988<\/td>Sold to S.M.A.T.  , Bulgaria . New name Serdica. Medmar service.<\/td><\/tr>
1990<\/td>Sold to Hornet Shipping, Bahamas. New name Nordic Hunter.<\/td><\/tr>
1990<\/td>Swedish Gulf Line service.<\/td><\/tr>
1991<\/td>Sold to Arka Marine II A\/S, Denmark . New name Arka Marine<\/td><\/tr>
1991<\/td>Rebuild to car-passenger ferry on Gdynia.<\/td><\/tr>
1991<\/td>Charter to DSB. New name ASK. \u00c5rhus – Kalundborg route.<\/td><\/tr>
1993<\/td>New main engines installed.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1997<\/td>Sold to Scandlines.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1988<\/td>Laid up at \u00c5rhus<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1999<\/td>Charter to Euroseabridge , Travem\u00fcnde – Klaipeda route.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/1999<\/td>Laid up at Nakskov.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2000<\/td>Rostock – Liepaja route<\/td><\/tr>
2001<\/td>Lengthened on Remontowa, Poland<\/td><\/tr>
29\/9\/2001<\/td>Rostock – Liepaja route<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2002<\/td>Charter to Nord\u00f6-Link , Malm\u00f6 – Travem\u00fcnde route.<\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/td>Trelleborg – Rostock route for Scandlines service.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/2003<\/td>Karlshamn – Liepaja route.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2003<\/td>Charter to Stena Line Trelleborg – Travem\u00fcnde route<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2005<\/td>Laid up at Puttgarden.<\/td><\/tr>
6-9\/2005<\/td>Charter to Iscomar  Palma – Valencia route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2005<\/td>Rostock – Ventspils route route. Short visits Karlshamn \/ Nyn\u00e4shamn – Ventspils and Rostock – Trelleborg routes.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2009<\/td>Nyn\u00e4shamn – Ventspils route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/2011<\/td>Travem\u00fcnde – Liepaja route.<\/td><\/tr>
6-7\/2011<\/td>Charter to SOL Continental Line, Helsingborg – Travem\u00fcnde route.<\/td><\/tr>
7\/2011<\/td>Laid up at Nakskov.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/2011<\/td>Travem\u00fcnde – Liepaja route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2012<\/td>Sold to Stena Line Baltic A\/S<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Continue Travem\u00fcnde – Liepaja route<\/td><\/tr>
25\/7\/2015<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Fredrikshavn route. Replace Stena Jutlandica.<\/td><\/tr>
autumn 2015<\/td>Rebuild<\/td><\/tr>
late 2015<\/td>New name Stena Gothica . G\u00f6teborg – Fredrikshavn route.<\/td><\/tr>
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 1\/5\/2022<\/td> Nyn\u00e4shamn – Hanko route.<\/td><\/tr>
\u00a010\/12\/2023<\/td>\u00a0Europoort – Harwich route<\/td><\/tr>
\u00a023\/12\/2023<\/td>\u00a0Laid up at Rotterdam.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/4\/2024<\/td>Rotterdam – Harwich route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/6\/2024<\/td>Laid up at Rotterdam.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/2024<\/td>Sold to new owner.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/8\/2024<\/td>Arrived to Klaipeda.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/9\/2024<\/td>New name Gothica. Panama flag.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                  History   Building contract   Start of Production   Keel laid 16\/7\/1981 Launch 3\/1982 Delivered to Delpa Maritime, Cyprus 9\/1982 Charter to Rederi Ab Nord\u00f6, Malm\u00f6.  Malm\u00f6 – Travem\u00fcnde route. 11\/1982 Engineroom fire. Towed back to Travem\u00fcnde. … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7942,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7949","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7949","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=7949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38705,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7949\/revisions\/38705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}