MS Silvia Regina
MS ''Saga'' is a cruiseferry owned by the Sweden, Swedish shipping company Stena Line which it operated mainly on their route connecting Oslo, Norway to Frederikshavn, Denmark until March 2020, when that route was closed down. She was built as MS ''Silvia Regina'' in 1981 by Wärtsilä in Turku, Finland, for Rederi AB Svea for use in Silja Line traffic. The ship joined the Stena Line fleet in 1991, originally with the name MS ''Stena Britannica''. Concept and construction In the late 1970s, Effoa and Rederi AB Svea, two of the owners of the Baltic Sea ferry operator Silja Line, made the decision to order two new, large car/passenger ferries for Silja Line's Helsinki–Stockholm service. The ships were designed to be much larger than the ships that were at the time sailing on the route (built in 1975) and they would be Silja Line's first genuine cruiseferry, cruiseferries. During the 70s the France, French Dubegion-Normandie shipyard in Nantes had been Silja Line's shipyard of ...
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