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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''). ''Mariella'' was the world's largest cruiseferry from 1985 until 1989, when the accolade passed on to her Viking Line fleetmate 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 Sally. She has remained on the same route ever s ...
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Bateau Mega Regina Entrant Port - L'ÃŽle-Rousse (FR2B) - 2021-09-05 - 6 (cropped)
A bateau or batteau is a shallow-draft, flat-bottomed boat which was used extensively across North America, especially in the colonial period and in the fur trade. It was traditionally pointed at both ends but came in a wide variety of sizes. The name derives from the French word, ''bateau'', which is simply the word for boat and the plural, bateaux, follows the French, an unusual construction for an English plural English nouns are inflected for grammatical number, meaning that, if they are of the countable type, they generally have different forms for singular and plural. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plural nouns are formed .... In the southern United States, the term is still used to refer to flat-bottomed boats, including those elsewhere called jon boats. Construction Bateaux were flat-bottomed and double-ended. They were built with heavy stems at bow and stern and a series of frames amidships, likely from natural oak crooks when available, ...
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MS SPL Princess Anastasia (1986)
''Moby Orli'' is a cruiseferry owned by Moby SPA. Until September 2010, she was known as ''Pride of Bilbao'', operated by P&O Ferries on their Portsmouth–Bilbao route. The vessel was built in 1986 as ''Olympia'' at the Wärtsilä Perno Shipyard in Turku, Finland for Rederi AB Slite, Sweden for use in Viking Line traffic. She was sold by Irish Continental Group to St. Peter Line in December 2010 and renamed ''Princess Anastasia'' and operated on the Saint Petersburg – Helsinki – Stockholm – Tallinn route. In 2022 she was withdrawn because of the conflict in Ukraine, transferred to Moby Lines and sailed to Messina for refurbishment. She was set to return to service in the Mediterranean. Career Rederi AB Slite ''Olympia'' was built at the Wärtsilä Perno Shipyard in Turku, Finland, for Rederi AB Slite. The ship was launched on 26 April 1986, and operated between Stockholm and Helsinki for Viking Line. ''Olympia'' was built as a sister ship to MS ''Mariella''. In 1993 ...
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Ã…land
Ã…land ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an Federacy, autonomous and Demilitarized zone, demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1,580 km2, and a population of 30,129, constituting 0.51% of its land area and 0.54% of its population. Its only official language is Swedish language, Swedish and the capital city is Mariehamn. Ã…land is situated in an archipelago, called the Ã…land Islands, at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea belonging to Finland. It comprises Fasta Ã…land on which 90% of the population resides and about 6,500 Skerry, skerries and islands to its east. Of Ã…land's thousands of islands, about 60–80 are inhabited. Fasta Ã…land is separated from the coast of Roslagen in Sweden by of open water to the west. In the east, the Ã…land archipelago is Geographic contiguity, contiguous with the Archipelago Sea, Finnish archipelago. Ã…land ...
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Mariehamn
Mariehamn ( , ; fi, Maarianhamina ; la, Portus Mariae) is the capital city, capital of Ã…land, an autonomous territory under Finland, Finnish sovereignty. Mariehamn is the seat of the Government of Ã…land, Government and Parliament of Ã…land, and 40% of the population of Ã…land live in the city. It is mostly surrounded by Jomala, the second largest municipality in Ã…land in terms of population; to the east it is bordered by Lemland. Like all of Ã…land, Mariehamn is unilingually Swedish-speaking population of Finland, Swedish-speaking and around of the inhabitants speak it as their native language. The theme of the coat of arms of Mariehamn refers to the city's main livelihood, a maritime transport, and the city's parks, which are typically lined with Tilia, linden trees. The coat of arms was designed by Nils Byman and confirmed in 1951. Due to its central location in the Baltic Sea, Mariehamn has become a major summer resort town for global tourism; as many as 1.5 million tou ...
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MS Estonia
MS ''Estonia'' was a cruiseferry built in 1980 at the West German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. In 1993, she was sold to Nordström & Thulin for use on Estline's Tallinn–Stockholm route. The ship's sinking on 28 September 1994, in the Baltic Sea between Sweden, Finland and Estonia, was one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters of the 20th century, claiming 852 lives. The official report concluded that the bow door had separated from the vessel, pulling the ramp ajar. The ship was already listing because of poor cargo distribution, and the list increased rapidly, flooding the decks and the cabins. Shortly, power failed altogether, inhibiting search and rescue, and a full-scale emergency was not declared for 90 minutes. Of the 989 on board, 138 were rescued. The report criticised primarily the ship's construction, as well as the passive attitude of the crew, failing to notice that water was entering the vehicle deck, delaying the alarm, and providing minimal guidance fr ...
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Norrköping
Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköping and 60 km west of the Södermanland capital of Nyköping. The city has a population of 95,618 inhabitants in 2016, out of a municipal total of 130,050,Folkmängd i Norrköpings kommun den 31 December 2010
making it Sweden's tenth largest city and eighth largest municipality. The city is situated by the mouth of the river , at

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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's currently used on cruise traffic from Stockholm to Mariehamn and occasionally Riga during the summer. 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 f ...
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Rederi Ab Sally
Rederi Ab Sally was a Finnish shipping company founded in 1937 by Algot Johansson. Originally a tanker operator, Sally became a dominant member of the Viking Line shipping consortium in the 1970s. The company met bad times in the 1980s and was bought by its rivals Effoa and Johnson Line (owners of Silja Line) in 1987. In 1990 the operations of Sally, Effoa and Johnson Line were merged into EffJohn and Rederi Ab Sally ceased to exist as an independent company. Subsidiaries During its history Rederi Ab Sally was involved in operating tankers, ferries, cruiseferries and cruise ships. It fully or partially owned numerous subsidiaries, including: * Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen / Rederi Ab Solstad - founded in 1959, Rederi Ab Sally majority of stocks in 1963, merged into Rederi Ab Sally in the 1970s. *Commodore Cruise Line - bought in 1980. *Sally Line UK - founded in 1981. * Vaasanlaivat / Vasabåtarna - bought from Enso-Gutzeit in 1982. *Sally Cruise - founded in 1985, traffic started ...
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Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.4 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County. For several hundred years, Stockholm was the capital of Finland as well (), which then was a part of Sweden. The population of the municipality of Stockholm is expected to reach o ...
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Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The Helsinki urban area, city's urban area has a population of , making it by far the List of urban areas in Finland by population, most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has History of Helsinki, close historical ties with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, and Kauniainen (and surrounding commuter towns, including the eastern ...
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