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                                                     History

 

 

6/1968 Building contract  
Keel laid  
19/12/1969 Launch and named Apollo by Mrs. isabella Myrsten  
29/4/1970 Delivered to Rederi AB Slite, Sweden  
2/5/1970 Naantali - Mariehamn - Kapellskär route, operated Viking Line  
1975 Turku - Mariehamn - Stockholm route  
autumn 1975 Stockholm - Mariehamn route  
2/3/1976 Last day on Viking Line service  
12/3/1976 Sold to Olau Line, Denmark flag, new name Olau Kent.  
1976 Olau Line service on  Vlissingen - Sheerness  
10/9/1980 Arrested on Vlissingen  
5/11/1980 Sold to Nordisk Færgefart A/S, denmark  
12/11/1980 New name Gelting Nord.  
3/1981 Fåborg - Gelting route  
3/1982 Change new main engines by Svendborg skibsvaerft.  
5-12/1982 Charter to A/S Kattegat on Sandefjord - Hundested route  
1983 Fåborg - Gelting route  
4/1984 Charter to Brittany Ferries, new name Benodet  
4/1984 Plymouth - Roscoff route  
3/1985 Charter to British Channel Island Ferries,  new name Corbiére  
3/1985 Poole - Cherbourg route.  
   
5/1989 Charter to Truckline Ferries, same route.  
15/8/1990 Sold to Eckerö Linjen. Continue to charter on Truckline Ferries.  
   
3/11/1991 Charter to Estonian New Line, operate Helsinki - Tallinn route  using artist name Linda I.  
   
1/1994 Charter to Tallink. Helsinki - Tallinn route.  
3/1/1994 - 23/12/1994 Helsinki - Tallinn route  
27/12/1994 Docked on Kotkan telakka OY  
5/5/1995 New name Apollo, operated by Eestin Linjat (Eckerö Line and Birka Cruises) on Helsinki - Tallinn route.  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
5/11/1998 Charter to hotelship on Vyborg.  
2/1999 Charter to Nordisk Færgefart A/S, Denmark  
3/1999 Bagenkop - Kiel route  
17/3/1999 Ground on near Bagenkop, Denmark.  
   
7/1999 Laid up on Mariehamn for sale.  
26/1/2000 Sold to Labrador Marine Inc, St John, N.F. Canada  
   
1/5/2000 St. Barbe, Newfoundland to Blanc Sablon in Quebec route