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                      History

13/4/1983 Building contract. Ordered by Johnson Line AB later transferred to Effoa OY.
22/5/1984 Keel laid
3/1985 Launch
9/1/1986 Delivered to Effoa OY (Silja Line), Finland
1/1986 Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route.
12/7/1986

Run aground near Mariehamn due to black out in engine room
13-16/7/1986 Refloated and repaired in Naantali.
30/4 – 18/11/1990

Helsinki – Stockholm route
18/11/1990 Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route.
15/1 – 26/2/1992 Rebuild on Loyd Werft, Germany. New restaurants, cabins etc.
22/2/1992 New name Silja Festival
26/2/1992 Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route
20/3/1993 Vaasa – Umeå route
1/6/1993 Malmö – Travemünde route , operated Euroway
1/9/1993 Lübeck – Travemünde – Malmö – Copenhagen route
10/4/1994 Euroway service ended
22/4/1994 Vaasa – Umeå route operated Silja Line
1/7/1994 Vaasa – Sundsvall route
8/8/1994 Vaasa – Umeå route
2/9/1994 Helsinki – Tallinn route
21/6/1995 Vaasa – Sundsvall route
15/8/1995 Helsinki – Tallinn route

2/4/1997

Swedish flag
5/4/1997

Turku – Mariehamn – Stockholm route
1/7/1999

Turku – Mariehamn/Långnäs – Stockholm route
7-20/1/2001 Docked Aker Finnyards, Rauma. Install sponsons and catalysators.
4-8//5/2006 Helsinki – Riga – Helsinki cruises
26-29/5/2006 Helsinki – Stockholm – Helsinki Elitloppet cruise
8/2008 Riga – Stockholm route operated Tallink and Latvian flag
31/12/2008 – 8/1/2009 St. Petersburg – Helsinki -Stockholm – Tallinn – St. Petersburg  cruises
9/1/2009 Riga – Stockholm route
31/12/2009 – 8/1/2010 St. Petersburg – Helsinki -Stockholm – Tallinn – St. Petersburg  cruises
9/1/2010 Riga – Stockholm route
30/4-4/5/2010 St. Petersburg – Helsinki -Stockholm – Tallinn – St. Petersburg  cruise
5/5/2010 Riga – Stockholm route
31/12/2010-5/1/2011 St. Petersburg – Helsinki -Stockholm – Tallinn – St. Petersburg  cruise
28/4-4/5/2011 St. Petersburg – Helsinki -Stockholm – Tallinn – St. Petersburg  cruise
5/5/2011 Riga – Stockholm route
2-8/1/2013 St. Petersburg – Helsinki -Stockholm – Tallinn – St. Petersburg  cruise
9/1/2013 Riga – Stockholm route
6/5/2013 Last day on Riga – Stockholm route
6/5/2013 Laid up at Riga Shipyard
1/9/2013 Depart from Riga to two months hotelship charter to Navantial shipyard, Spain
11/10/2013 End of charter, bunkering at Gibraltar
18/10/2013 ETA to Tallinn.
29/12/2013 New year cruise from St. Petersburg
1/2014 Laid up at Tallinn
27/1/2014 Charter to Bridgemans Services Ltd. (Rio Tinto Alcan) for 12 months.  Used as accommodsation ship for Kitimat Modernization
Project at Canada.
28/1/2014 Depart from Tallinn.
27/2/2015 Sold to Bridgemans Services Ltd.
4/2015 Delivery to new owner cancelled.
29/4/2015 Voyage from Kitimat to Vancouver
4/5/2015 Sold to Medinvest s.p.a. , Italy (Corsica Ferries) Delivery in June 2015.
4/5/2015 Voyage from Vancouver to Europe via Panama Canal
6/2015 Delivery to new owner. New name Mega Andrea . Italy flag.
16/7/2015 Corsica Ferries service Livorno – Golfo Aranci and Livorno – Bastia routes.