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EXPEDITION cruise vessel

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Jan 12, 2017 8:15 pm

Built as a ro-ro ferry under yard No 398 by Helsingör Værft, Elsinore, Denmark for Jydsk Færgefart A/S, Hundested, Denmark.
Tonnage 3,960 grt, 1,441 nrt, 925 dwt. Dim. 104.04 x 18.93 x 4.37m.
Powered by two HSM-B&W 10U45HU diesels, 8,096 kW. Twin shafts, speed 17 knots.
Accommodation for 1,200 passengers. 34 berth.
14 July 1972 delivered to owners.

15 July 1972 in service between Grená and Hundested.
30 December 1977 last voyage in this service.
02 March 1978 sold to Midland Montague Leasing (U.K.) Ltd, London for P&O Normandy Ferries Ltd., London
06 March 1978 arrived Vlissingen Oost (Flushing East), Netherlands and laid up.
14 April 1978 arrived by Caillard S.A., Le Havre for a refit.
09 June 1978 renamed in nf TIGER, in service between Dover and Boulogne.
04 January 1985 registered for Townsend Car Ferries Ltd., Dover, renamed TIGER, in service between Dover and Boulogne.
18 July 1986 last voyage in this service, thereafter laid up at Chatham. U.K.
November 1986 sold to Finlandshamnen Ab, Norrtälje, Sweden (subsidiary of SF Line, Mariehamn, Finland.
11 December 1986 arrived at the Tyne for a refit.
22 December 1986 arrived by the Öresundsvarvet for further redevelopment, renamed in ALANDSFÄRJAN.
29 April 1987 arrived Mariehamn.
18 May 1987 in the service of the Viking Line between Kapellskär and Mariehamn, from 1993 also Mariehamn to Nådendal with cargo, the ship did not have more any berths.
1995 Transferred to the Ab Viking Line, Norrtälje.
03 January 2002 till 03 February 2002 rebuild and fitted out with stern sponsons at the Baltic Shiprepairs, Tallinn, Estonia. Tonnage 6.336 grt, 1,900 dwt.Dim. 105.20 x 18.93 x 4.71m
15 February 2002 in the service between Kapellskär and Mariehamn.
Thereafter every year in the winter months laid up.
05 July 2005 on arrival Mariehamn port at 18.30 the port propeller got out of control full ahead and the ship hit a pile mooring, a car on the car-deck turned over and hit a woman who was hospitalized. Four cars were damaged. The ferry sailed for Kappellskär for repair.
After a few days repair she was back in service.
23 October 2007 she hit Marbådan off Mariehamn, she proceeded to Mariehamn were severe damage was found during a survey. Taken out of traffic for repair.
October 2007 sailed to Tallinn for hull damage port side repair.
23 November 2007 again in service.
27 May 2008 sold to G.A. P. Shipping Ltd., Hamilton, Barbados for takeover in June.
29 May 2008 last sailing in the ferry service.
26 June 2006 sailed from Mariehamn to Rauma, Finland
27 June 2008 handed over to new owners and renamed in EXPEDITION. Liberian flag and registry, homeport Monrovia.
The same day her rebuilding in a cruise ship commenced by the Aker yard in Rauma.
2008 Her owners given as Expedition Shipping Co. Ltd, Monrovia, tonnage 6,334 grt, 1,900 nrt, 965 dwt.
Accommodation for 137 passengers.
April 2009 in service as a cruise vessel.
November 2009 arrived in Las Palmas with engine problems.
January 2010 again in service.
2017 In service same name and owners IMO No 7211074, managed by G. Adventures, Toronto.

British Antarctic Territory 2016 £1.22 sg?, scott?
Source: http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/kattegat_1972.htm http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
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