{"id":5570,"date":"2017-12-20T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T05:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=5570"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:17:09","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=5570","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                   History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
 <\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
21\/1\/1974<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
10\/10\/1974<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
16\/5\/1975<\/td>Delivered to Tor Line, G\u00f6teborg, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
21\/5\/1975<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
2\/11\/1981<\/td>Sold to Scandinavian Seaways ( DFDS A\/S ) Bahamas, New name Scandinavian Star<\/td><\/tr>
10\/11\/1981<\/td>Refurbished on \u00c5lborg V\u00e6rft, Denmark for using on 3 and 4 days cruises Freeport – Miami. ( Scandinavian World Cruises later SeaEscape)<\/td><\/tr>
7\/1 – 12\/3\/1982<\/td>Ship never go to Bahamas service.   Laid up on Copenhagen<\/td><\/tr>
26\/3\/1982<\/td>New operator DFDS Tor Line, Esbjerg, Denmark. Had back original name Tor Britannia.<\/td><\/tr>
29\/3\/1982<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
1\/4\/1983<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
25\/9\/1983<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and Esbjerg – Harwich routes<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1988<\/td>Operator Scandinavian Seaways, DIS flag<\/td><\/tr>
14\/1\/1987<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
17\/6\/1989<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Newcastle routes.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/10\/1989<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich , G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
20\/3\/1990<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich ,G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and Esbjerg – Harwich routes<\/td><\/tr>
8\/11\/1990 – 11\/1\/1991<\/td>Rebuild new cabin area on deck 4. refurbished interior.<\/td><\/tr>
21\/11\/1990<\/td>New name Prince of Scandinavia<\/td><\/tr>
16\/1\/1991<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and G\u00f6teborg – Newcastle routes<\/td><\/tr>
8\/10\/1991<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
18\/3\/1992<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich ,G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and Esbjerg – Harwich routes<\/td><\/tr>
10\/6\/1992<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes<\/td><\/tr>
17\/8\/1992<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich ,G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and Esbjerg – Harwich routes<\/td><\/tr>
3\/11\/1992<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
5\/4\/1993<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich, G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam and G\u00f6teborg – Newcastle routes<\/td><\/tr>
2\/11\/1993<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
2\/3\/1994<\/td>G\u00f6teborg -Kristiansand – Ijmuiden and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/9\/1994<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2\/1995<\/td>Used as a hotelship on Copenhagen<\/td><\/tr>
9\/4\/1995<\/td>G\u00f6teborg -Kristiansand – Ijmuiden and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/4\/1996<\/td>Esbjerg – Harwich route.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/1996<\/td>Charter to COTUNAV<\/td><\/tr>
28\/5 – 26\/10\/1996<\/td>Genova – Tunis , Marseille – Tunis routes<\/td><\/tr>
28\/2\/1997<\/td>Hamburg – Harwich route<\/td><\/tr>
5\/11\/1997 – 14\/1\/1998<\/td>Rebuild sponsons and upgrading to SOLAS 90.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/1\/1998<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Harwich and G\u00f6teborg – Copenhagen routes<\/td><\/tr>
24\/3\/1998<\/td>Hamburg – Harwich and Hamburg – Newcastle routes<\/td><\/tr>
23\/9\/1999<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Kristiansand – Newcastle route<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2\/2000<\/td>Copenhagen – Helsingborg – Oslo route<\/td><\/tr>
20\/2\/2000<\/td>G\u00f6teborg – Kristiansand – Newcastle route<\/td><\/tr>
20\/4\/2000<\/td>Hamburg – Harwich route<\/td><\/tr>
28\/1\/2001 – 27\/11\/2003<\/td>Ijmuiden – Newcastle route<\/td><\/tr>
28\/11\/2003<\/td>Delivered to Moby SPA , Genova , Italy. New name Moby Drea. Portugal flag<\/td><\/tr>
2003\/2004<\/td>Rebuild<\/td><\/tr>
27\/5\/2004<\/td>Livorno – Olbia route<\/td><\/tr>
4\/6\/2006<\/td>Italian flag ,<\/td><\/tr>
2009<\/td>Genova – Porto Torres route<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2009<\/td>Laid up winter on Genova<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2010<\/td>Genova – Olbia , Genova \/ Livorno – Porto Torres route<\/td><\/tr>
14\/9\/2010<\/td>Laid up winter on Genova<\/td><\/tr>
8\/2011<\/td>Genova – Porto Torres route, Some sailings earlier summer same route.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/9\/2011<\/td>Genova – Olbia route<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2011<\/td>Winter laid up<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2012<\/td>Genova – Olbia route<\/td><\/tr>
15\/10\/2012<\/td>Winter laid up at Genova<\/td><\/tr>
15\/5-13\/10\/2013<\/td>Genova – Olbia route<\/td><\/tr>
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 <\/td> Laid up at Genova, Italy.<\/td><\/tr>
 22\/4\/2025<\/td> Sold to scrap.<\/td><\/tr>
\u00a018\/7\/2025<\/td>\u00a0Depart from Genova under towing to scrapyard.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                      History   Building contract 21\/1\/1974 Keel laid 10\/10\/1974 Launch 16\/5\/1975 Delivered to Tor Line, G\u00f6teborg, Sweden 21\/5\/1975 G\u00f6teborg – Felixstowe and G\u00f6teborg – Amsterdam routes 2\/11\/1981 Sold to Scandinavian Seaways ( DFDS A\/S ) Bahamas, New name Scandinavian Star 10\/11\/1981 Refurbished on \u00c5lborg … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5551,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42625,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5570\/revisions\/42625"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}