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                                    History

3/1960 Building contract. Ordered Rederi AB Vikinglinjen. Planned to Parainen – Kapellskär route.
Later contract  cancelled and  order sold to Merivienti OY, Finland
Start of Production
15/9/1961 Keel laid
2/2/1962 Launch
18/7/1962 Delivered to Merivienti OY, Helsinki, Finland
24/7/1962 Finnlines service Hanko – Visby / Slite – Travemünde route
1963 Lengthened at Kieler Howaldtswerke A.G. Kiel, Germany
16/4/1963 Hanko – ( Kalmar / Slite / Nynäshamn / Karlskrona ) – Travemünde routes
4/2/1966 Fire onboard. Repaired at Kiel.
25/2/1966 New name Finndana
1/4/1966 Helsinki – Copenhagen route.
1/10/1966 Charter to TT Line, Trelleborg – Travemünde route.
15/6/1967 Sold to Polska Zegluga Morska, Szczecin, Poland. New name Gryf.
21/6/1967 Świnoujście – Ystad route.
1/1/1970 Owner Polskie Linie Oceaniczne, Gdynia, Poland
14/6/1973 Gdansk – Helsinki route
17/1-29/3/1974 Gdansk – Turku route due to ice condition in Gulf of Finland.
2/4/1976 Owner Polska Zegluga Baltycka, Kolobrzeg, Poland
1981 Sold to Fragmar Shipping Corp., Piraeus, Greece.
1981 New name Eolos and Greece flag.
1981 Fraglines service Patras – Corfu – Igoumenitsa – Brindisi route.
1995 Sold to AK Ventouris Shipping, Greece , New name Agios Vassilios.
1995 Igoumenitsa – Brindisi route.
1996 Owner Watermark Navigation Inc. Panama. Panama flag.
3/12/1996 Company went a bankrupt . Laid up at Eleusis, Greece
10/1998 Sold to Clydesdale Shipping Corp. , Panama.
5/1999 Planned to charter Artemis Lines , but deal never be realized.
31/3/2000 Take water to engineroom when was docking at  Bakopoulos yard, Eleusis, Greece,
5/2003 Sold to Turkish buyer. New name Agi.
2/7/2003 Arrived to Aliaga, Turkey for scrapping.