Category:M/S Estonia

Built by: Jos. L. Meyer at Papenburg in Germany
Contract signed: 11 September 1979 between the yard and Rederiaktiebolaget Sally
Yard number: S.590
Keel laid: 18 October 1979
Built to the rules of Bureau Veritas with class notation “I 3/3 E + Passenger Ferry Deep Sea Ice 1A (Aut)”.
IMO number 7921033
First name: VIKING SALLY and delivered on 29 June 1980 to Finnish company Rederiaktiebolaget Sally, one of three companies which together formed the marketing consortium “Viking Line”
Bought in 1986 by the Finnish/Swedish group Effjohn, owners of the competing Silja Line. Continued to operate in the Viking fleet under the original name.
In April 1990 the Effjohn group took over full operation and transferred her to the Silja Line. Renamed: SILJA STAR.
In January 1991 transferred to the Wasa Line, another subsidiary of the Effjohn group. Renamed: WASA KING.
Sold to the Estline Marine Company Limited, which is registered in Cyprus. Delivered on 15 January 1993.
Registered in Cyprus to satisfy the requirements of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development for financing the vessel on a mortgage basis. Permission had been obtained for parallel registration in Estonia and the vessel was entered in the Estonian Ship Register on 28 January 1993.
After delivery drydocking in Turku she entered service for passenger and cargo traffic between Tallinn and Stockholm. Renamed: ESTONIA.
First voyage under new name: 1 February 1993.
Sunk 28 September 1994

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