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                                                     History

 

 

   
10/9/1980 Keel laid  
17/4/1981 Launch  
20/4/1982 Delivered to Baltic Shipping Company, Leningrad, Soviet Union.  
1982 Helsinki - Leningrad route  
   
   
1988 Rebuild interior and new bow on lloyds Werft, Germany  
10-12/1990 Helsinki - Leningrad route and Two nigth cruises from Helsinki to Vyborg.  
1992/1993 Refurbished interior, build new suites.  
1993 Charter to Baltic Line. Helsinki - St. Petersburg route.  
6/11/1993 Helsinki - Las Palmas cruise  
1993/1994 7 days Cruises on Canary Islands  
9/4 - 23/4/1994 Las Palmas - Helsinki cruise  
24/4 - 17/51994 Refurbished interior  
18/5/1994 Helsinki - St. Petersburg route and 24 hours cruises from Helsinki around Suursaari  
4/11/1994- 7/5/1995 Original plan to cruises on canary Islands , but ms. Baltica replaced Konstantin Simonov for those cruises.  
13/4/1995- Helsinki - St. Petersburg route and Helsinki - Kronstadt cruises  
Spring 1996 St. Petersburg - Kiel route  
18/5/1996 Arrested in Kiel due to Baltic Line bankrup  
5/11/1996 Sold to Pakartin Shipping, Cyprus. Named Francesca  
11/1996 Laid up Wilhelmshaven, Germany.  
9/2000 Sold to Silver Cruises Ltd. malta.  
2001 Rebuild public areas and cabins. Build larger sundecks.  
2001 Cruises from Haifa, operated Mano Cruises  
2004 Refurbished  
autumn 2009 Laid up for sale on Haifa.  
11/12/2009 Sold to Kristina Cruises Ltd. Kotka, Finland  
29/12/2009 The Iris start voyage from Haifa to Finland.  
16/1/ 2010 Drydock on Turku Repairing Yard, Naantali  
3/2/2010 Voyage from Naantali to Kotka where works continue.  
24/2/2010 Change flag to Finland , homeport Kotka.  
spring 2010 Refurbished interior  
24/2/2010 New name Kristina Katarina, Flag Finland, Homeport Kotka.  
28/8/ 2010 Kristina Katarina will replace Kristina Regina.  
28-29/8/2010 Maiden voyage Kotka - Tallinn - Helsinki  
31/8/2010 Cruises from FInland to Mediterranean  and 7 nigth cruises on Mediterranean  
2/10/2010 Cruises on Black Sea and Mediterranean  
6/11/2010 Cruises on Red Sea  
5/2/2011 Red Sea cruises cancelled and replaced by Eastern Mediterranean cruises.  
26/3/2011 Cruises on Mediterranean and Black Sea  
14/5/2011 Cruises on Azores and from Azores to Baltic  
16/6/2011 Cruises on Baltic Sea, Norwegian coast, Iceland , Greenland.  
15/8/2011 Cruise from Helsinki to Mediterranean  
27/8/2011 Cruises on Mediterranean and Black Sea  
16/11/2011 Canary Islands and Cap Verde cruises  
29/12/2011 Trans Atlantic cruise. First ever on Finnish flagged cruise ship.  
12/1/2012 Eastern Caribbean cruises  
8/3/2012 Trans Atlantic cruise  
22/3/2012 Canary Islands and Cap Verde cruises  
7/4/2012 Mediterranean and Black Sea cruises  
19/5/2012 Cruise from Portugal to Helsinki  
14/6/2012 Cruises on Baltic Sea, Spitsbergen, Norwegian coast  
21/7/2012 Cruises on North Sea and western Europe  
18/8/2012 Cruises on Mediterranean and Black Sea  
27/10/2012 Cruises on Canary Islands  
19/12/2012 Trans Atlantic cruise from Kap Verde  
29/12/2012 Cruises on Caribbean  
2/3/2013 Trans Atlantic cruise