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SF Line
SF Line was the name of the Finland, Finnish shipping company now known as Viking Line. The company, originally named Rederi Ab Ålandsfärjan, was one of three shipping companies that formed shipping marketing company Viking Line in 1966, the other two being Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen and Rederi AB Slite. After the other companies left Viking Line in 1988 and 1993 respectively, SF Line stood as the sole owner of Viking Line. As a result, SF Line changed its name to Viking Line in 1995. History Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen (later Rederi Ab Solstad and merged into Rederi Ab Sally in 1970) was founded in 1959 and started ferry operations between Gräddö (Sweden) and Korppoo (Finland). The ship used was a ro-ro vessel ''Viking'', which the company acquired in 1959 from a previous owner. The ship was originally known as ''Dinard'' before being renamed to ''Viking''. After a disagreement between the founders, a group of men led by Gunnar Eklund left Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen and started a new co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosella Saapumassa Etelasatamaan
Rosellas are in a genus that consists of six species and nineteen subspecies. These colourful parrots from Australia are in the genus ''Platycercus''. ''Platycercus'' means "broad-tailed" or "flat-tailed", reflecting a feature common to the rosellas and other members of the broad-tailed parrot tribe. Their diet is mainly seeds and fruit. Taxonomy The genus was described by naturalist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825; the name ''Platycercus'' derived from the Greek language, Greek ''platykerkos'' meaning "broad-" or "flat-tailed", from ''platys'' "broad, wide, level, flat" and ''kerkos'' "tail of a beast"., , . The relationships with other parrots have been unclear, with the Australian ringneck (genus ''Barnardius'') cited as a closest relative by some, and the genus ''Psephotus'' by others; the plumage of the western rosella seen as a link to the latter genus.Early European settlers encountered the eastern rosella at Rose Hill, New South Wales, now Parramatta, and so they cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Turella
MS ''Rigel III'' is a cruiseferry owned by the Greek-based company Ventouris Ferries. She was built in 1979 as MS ''Turella'' by Wärtsilä Crichton-Vulcan, Turku shipyard, Finland for SF Line for use in Viking Line traffic. In 1988 she was sold to Stena Line, becoming MS ''Stena Nordica''. In 1996, she was transferred to Lion Ferry and was renamed MS ''Lion King''. In 1998, she was sold to Tallink and renamed MS ''Fantaasia''. As ''Fantaasia'' she also sailed under charter to Algérie Ferries, Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation, Comanav and Kystlink during the years 2005–2008. Following the end of her charter to Kystlink in 2008 the latter company bought her, renaming her MS ''Kongshavn''. After Kystlink was declared bankrupt in late 2008 the ship was laid up until sold to the Croatia-based ferry operator Blue Line International, and operated on their service between Split, Croatia, Split and Ancona as MS ''Regina della Pace''. In 2017 the ship was sold to the Greek-based company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Viking Grace
MS ''Viking Grace'' is a cruiseferry constructed at STX Europe Perno shipyard, Turku Shipyard, Finland for the Finland-based ferry company Viking Line. The ship was delivered to her owners on 10 January 2013, and entered service on 13 January 2013. She is the first large-scale passenger ferry to be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) as well as being fitted with a Rotor ship, rotor sail. ''Viking Grace'' replaced ''MS Isabella'' (now known as ''MS Isabelle'') on the Turku-Långnäs-Stockholm route.Enkvist, Liisa: Ensimmäinen laiva korvaa Isabellan. ''Turun Sanomat'', 26 October 2010, 106th year, p. 12. Turku: TS-Yhtymä Oy. ''Viking Grace'' is twinned by ''MS Viking Glory'', which entered service in March 2022. Viking Line and STX Finland made a contract of building the ship (shipyard project number NB 1376) on 25 October 2010, and the contract went into force on 22 December 2010. The contract price was about 240 million euro, and the ship was delivered in January 2013. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Viking XPRS
ship prefix, MS ''Viking XPRS'' is a fast cruiseferry owned by the Finland-based Viking Line and operated on their service between Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. Her keel was laid on 16 April 2007 and launching took place on 19 September 2007. ''Viking XPRS'' entered service on 28 April 2008. Concept ''Viking XPRS'' is Viking Line's first new building for the Helsinki–Tallinn route. She is the first newbuilding delivered to the company since MS Kalypso, MS ''Kalypso'' in 1990 and also Viking Line's first fast cruiseferry, with a building contract worth approximately 120–130 million euros. The ''Viking XPRS'' makes the crossing between the two capitals in about two and a half hours, with two daily departures from each port. The ship is designed with separate cardecks for freight and for passengers cars, and with a limited passenger cabin capacity as she only does daytime crossings. The interiors of the ''Viking XPRS'' were designed by Tillberg Design, like those of se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Gabriella
MS ''Gabriella'' is a cruiseferry sailing on a route connecting Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden for Viking Line. She was built in 1992 in Brodosplit, Croatia as ''Frans Suell'' for service with Euroway. Between 1994 and 1997 she sailed as ''Silja Scandinavia'' for Silja Line. ''Gabriella'' has sister ships MS Mega Victoria, ''Mega Victoria'' operated by Corsica Ferries, MS Isabelle, ''Isabelle'' operated by Tallink, and a third one, MS Crown Seaways, ''Crown Seaways'', operated by DFDS Seaways. Concept and construction Euroway was a concept developed during the latter half of the 1980s by the Sweden-based Sea-Link Shipping. The new brand was planned to operate two state-of-the-art cruiseferries between Malmö in Sweden and Lübeck in Germany via Travemünde in Germany, with the service aimed in particular at conference groups. Sea-link decided to order the ships from Brodosplit in Croatia, which at that time still was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Cinderella
MS ''Viking Cinderella'' is a cruiseferry built in 1989 at Wärtsilä Marine Perno Shipyard in Turku, Finland, as MS ''Cinderella'' for SF Line, one of the owners of the Viking Line consortium. She is currently used on the Helsinki-Mariehamn-Stockholm route. History The ''Cinderella'' was planned in the later half of the 1980s as the new flagship for SF Line. Her interior layout was based on that of MS ''Mariella'' but with more space and additional facilities. SF Line originally planned the ''Cinderella'' to take over the ''Mariella''s place in Helsinki–Stockholm traffic (the ''Mariella'' would have been placed on a new route from Helsinki to Norrköping). The plan was never realised however, and when completed the ''Cinderella'' was placed as a third ship on the Helsinki–Stockholm route, with departures from Helsinki on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (at 19:30 instead of the normal 18:00), with a 25-hour (later 24-hour) cruise from Helsinki on Sundays. The one-day cruises p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallink
Tallink () is an Estonian shipping company operating Baltic Sea cruiseferries and ropax ships from Estonia to Finland, Estonia to Sweden and Finland to Sweden. It is the largest passenger and cargo shipping company in the Baltic Sea region. It owns Silja Line and a part of SeaRail. Tallink Hotels runs four hotels in Tallinn and Riga. It is also the co-owner of a taxi company Tallink Takso. It is a publicly traded company, that is listed in Tallinn Stock Exchange. A major shareholder is an investment company AS Infortar, that also has ownership in several Tallink subsidiaries and a natural gas company Eesti Gaas. History Background The history of the company known today as Tallink can be traced back to 1965, when the Soviet Union-based Estonian Shipping Company (ESCO) introduced passenger ferry services between Helsinki and Tallinn on . Regular around-the-year passenger ferry services began in 1968, on MS ''Tallinn'', which served the route until it was replaced by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Isabella
MS ''Isabelle X'' is a cruiseferry Isabella and her sisters IHS Fairplay, 25 April 2013. owned and operated till July 2023 by the n based and in January 2024 sold to Notamare Shipping. She was built in 1989 by in |
MS Amorella
MS ''Mega Victoria'' is a cruiseferry owned by Corsica Ferries. She was formerly owned by Viking Line as MS ''Amorella'' and operated on the route Turku–Mariehamn–Stockholm and from 2022 Helsinki-Mariehamn-Stockholm. She was built in 1988 by Brodosplit in Croatia, then Yugoslavia. ''Amorella'' has three sister ships: in the Viking Line fleet, operated by Tallink and , operated by DFDS Seaways. History ''Amorella'' was ordered in 1986 by SF Line, one of the partners in Viking Line consortium. Although Brodosplit outbid other shipyards, the Finnish State offered to subsidise construction of the ship if she was built at a Finnish shipyard. This was a common practice in the 1980s to bring more jobs to Finland, but this time SF Line declined and had the ship built in Croatia. The original planned delivery date for ''Amorella'' was in March 1988, but due to delays in construction she was not completed until September, which meant SF Line was forced to operate the lucrative summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Ålandsfärjan
MS ''Expedition'' is an expedition cruise ship owned and operated by the Canada-based G Adventures (formerly known as Gap Adventures). She was built as a car/passenger ferry in 1972 by Helsingør Skibsværft og Maskinbyggeri A/S, Helsingør, Denmark as ''Kattegat'' for Jydsk Færgefart A/S. Subsequently, she sailed under the names ''nf Tiger'' for P&O Normandy Ferries, ''Tiger'' for Townsend Thoresen and ''Ålandsfärjan'' for Viking Line, prior to conversion into a cruise ship in 2008. The MS ''Expedition'' has the IMO number 7211074 and is ice-strengthened, having an ice class of 1B. There are two higher classes, being 1A Super and 1A. Service history As a car ferry The ''Kattegat'' was delivered in 1972 and placed on the intra-Denmark Grenå— Hundested service of Jydsk Færgefart A/S. She stopped serving on that route in December 1977. In March 1978 she was sold to the London-based Midland Montague Leasing Ltd who leased the ship to P&O Normandy Ferries Ltd, also based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Mariella
MS ''Mega Regina'' is a cruiseferry owned by Corsica Ferries. She was formerly owned and operated by Viking Line as MS ''Mariella''. She was built by the Wärtsilä Perno shipyard in Turku, Finland and delivered to SF Line in 1985. Her sister ship is the ''Olympia'' (now MS SPL Princess Anastasia (1986), MS ''SPL Princess Anastasia''). ''Mariella'' was the world's largest cruiseferry from 1985 until 1989, when the accolade passed on to her Viking Line fleetmate MS Pearl Seaways, MS ''Athena''. ''Mariella'' was sold to Corsica Ferries in 2021 and renamed ''Mega Regina''. The ship started traffic on the Mediterranean Sea in summer 2021.Rintakoski, KariTältä näyttää ulkomaille myyty Viking Mariella nykyisin – uuden nimen saanut alus aloitti liikennöinnin Välimerellä ''Ilta-Sanomat'' 26 July 2021. Accessed on 30 July 2021. History When the ''Mariella'' was delivered in 1985, she was the first ship on Viking Line's Helsinki–Stockholm service which was not owned by Rederi Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Rosella
MS ''Anemos'' is a cruiseferry owned and operated by the Greek ferry company Aegean Sea Lines. She was built in 1980 as ''Rosella'' by Wärtsilä Turku shipyard, in Turku, Finland, for SF Line, one of the owners of the Viking Line consortium. She served on Viking Line's Kapellskär–Mariehamn route before being sold to Aegean Sea Lines in January 2023. Background New vessels for SF Line The market for transporting passengers, cars and cargo trucks across the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden grew steadily during the 1960s and the early 1970s. During these years, two major carriers on these services emerged: Viking Line and Silja Line. By the time of the mid 1970s, the Ålandian based shipping company SF Line operated three ships as a part of Viking Line. Although not more than ten years old, these ships was already beginning to be too small and held too few passenger cabins to meet the growing demand from passengers. In response to this, as well as the newbuilings recently a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
