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                                                     History

 

 

   
7/1971 Keel laid  
17/11/1971 Launch  
11/3/1972 Delivered to Rederi AB Svea, Sweden  
17/3/1972 Operated by Trave-Line, Helsingborg - Travemünde route  
10/1976 Operated Saga-Linjen, same route  
1/1981 Operated TT-Saga Line Trelleborg - Travemünde route  
7-9/1984 Lengthened and new main engines build on Fosen M.V. Norway, named Saga Wind.  
1986 Operated TT Line  
1-4/1989 Converted to Train / Ro-Pax ferry on Blohm + Voss, germany, also more public areas and cabins  
4/1989 Charter to SeaWind Lines (Silja Line) service on Stockholm - Turku route  
5/1/1992 Sold to Silja Line  
1/7/1999 Stockholm - Långnäs - Turku route  
1/1/2008 Stockholm - turku route as a Ro-Ro cargo ship  
2/12/2008 Fire on engine room, passangers evacuated from ship to Mariehamn. Fire has been extinguished soon, ship towed to Turku  
and later to Turku Repairing Yards , Naantali for reparation.  
8/1/2009 Back on Stockholm - Turku route  
31/12/2009 - 24/1/2010 Drydocking on Gdansk.