{"id":7712,"date":"2018-01-20T05:25:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=7712"},"modified":"2025-05-03T21:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T19:51:48","slug":"7712-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=7712","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                 History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
22\/3\/1996<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Start of Production<\/td><\/tr>
15\/4\/1997<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1998<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
1\/9\/1998<\/td>Delivered to Cenargo International Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1998<\/td>Charter to Und RoRo, Istanbul, Turkey.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1999<\/td>Owner V Ships (UK) Douglas, Isle Of Man<\/td><\/tr>
15\/2\/1999<\/td>Merchant Ferries service Liverpool – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2002<\/td>Operator Norse Merchant Ferries, continue same route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2002<\/td>Norfolklines service, Dunkerque – Dover route<\/td><\/tr>
8\/11\/2002<\/td>Docking at ARNO Dunkerque<\/td><\/tr>
17\/12\/2004<\/td>Collision in harbour at Doiver due to bad weather.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/12\/2004<\/td>Repaired at ARNO Dunkerque<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2005<\/td>Liverpool – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/11\/2005<\/td>Voyage fromLiverpool to siros , Greece<\/td><\/tr>
11\/2005<\/td>New name Europax Appia<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2005<\/td>Planned to charter Italian company, but deal cancelled.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/12\/2005<\/td>Owner Daybreak Shipping, Ltd, Liverpool, UK<\/td><\/tr>
22\/2\/2006<\/td>Charter to Balearia. New name Paul Casals<\/td><\/tr>
2006<\/td>Palma-Barcelona route<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2007<\/td>Valencia – Palma route<\/td><\/tr>
7\/2008<\/td>Charter to Caronte & Tourist.  Messina – Salerno route. Later back to Balearia.<\/td><\/tr>
29\/10\/2008<\/td> Pau Casals encountered strong winds and rough seas. The bow door alarm was activated and more<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>water than normal was observed on the CCTV<\/td><\/tr>
11\/2008<\/td>Charter to Terrabalt ( Ave Line) Lithuania. New name  Ave Luebeck.<\/td><\/tr>
30\/12\/2008<\/td>Voyage from Gibraltar to Sherness<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1\/2009<\/td>Laid up near Sherness due to cancel of charter.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2009<\/td>Docking at ARNO Dunkerque. New name T Rex.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2009<\/td>Charter to T-Link Lines, Italy. Genova – Termini Imerese route.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2009<\/td>Charter to CoTuNav Marseille – Tunis route in place of an arrested Tor Humbria.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/12\/2009<\/td>Laid up<\/td><\/tr>
3-5\/2010<\/td>Charter to NorfolkLine Birkenhead – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
14\/5\/2010<\/td>Charter to LD Lines<\/td><\/tr>
25\/5\/2010<\/td>Docking at ARNO Dunkerque. New name Norman Trader.<\/td><\/tr>
30\/5-6\/9\/2010<\/td>Boulogne – Dover route.<\/td><\/tr>
14\/9\/2010<\/td>Docking at Amsterdam.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/11\/2010<\/td>Laid up at Tilbury.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/1-22\/2\/2011<\/td>Charter to LD Lines Le Havre – Portsmouth route.<\/td><\/tr>
23\/2\/2011<\/td>Laid up at Tilbury.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/4-6\/7\/2011<\/td>Charter to P&O Line Dublin – Liverpool route.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/6-22\/6\/2011<\/td>Charter to Stena Line Holyhead – Dublin route.<\/td><\/tr>
23\/6-30\/6\/2011<\/td>Charter to P&O Line Dublin – Liverpool route.<\/td><\/tr>
7\/2011<\/td>Laid up at Falmouth<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2013<\/td>Sold to Stena Line<\/td><\/tr>
26\/5\/2013<\/td>Drydocking at Remontowa, Poland. New name Stena Alegra.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/7\/2013<\/td>Karlskrona – Gdynia route.<\/td><\/tr>
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19\/9\/2013<\/td>Stopped at Gdynia after fail Port State Control.<\/td><\/tr>
28\/10\/2013<\/td>Grounded near Karlskrona on Simone storm.<\/td><\/tr>
1-6\/2014<\/td>Chartered to Interislander, New Zealand. Wellington – Picton route<\/td><\/tr>
17\/1\/2014<\/td>Returned back to harbour after suffering loosing power.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/4\/2014<\/td>Hull damaged when hit a pier  at Wellington<\/td><\/tr>
8\/5\/2014<\/td>Lost propeller blade, take few days to repair<\/td><\/tr>
7\/2014<\/td>Laid up Batam , Singapore<\/td><\/tr>
2015<\/td>Refurbished on Singapore<\/td><\/tr>
6\/2015<\/td>5 years charter to Interislander, New Zealand . Wellington – Picton route<\/td><\/tr>
7\/2015<\/td>New name Kaiarahi. Operated Interislander. <\/td><\/tr>
10\/2017<\/td>Owner Stena Finance BV.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/2019<\/td>Sold to Kiwirail Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                  History 22\/3\/1996 Building contract Start of Production 15\/4\/1997 Keel laid 2\/1998 Launch 1\/9\/1998 Delivered to Cenargo International Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas 10\/1998 Charter to Und RoRo, Istanbul, Turkey. 1\/1999 Owner V Ships (UK) Douglas, Isle Of Man 15\/2\/1999 … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7705,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7712","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7712","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=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41242,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7712\/revisions\/41242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}