Finnpartner (ship, 1966)

**Finnpartner**
	The Finnpartner in Kiel, April 1968
Ship data
flag	Finland
other ship names	Sveaborg (1969–1977) ; Peer Gynt (1977–1978) ; Stena Baltica (1978–1982) ; Ialyssos (1982–2002) ; Salim (2002) ; Noura I (2002–2004) ; Noura (2004)
Ship type	Ferry
home port	Helsinki
Shipping company	Finnlines
Shipyard	Wärtsilä , Helsinki
Build number	380
Order	February 12, 1965
Keel laying	April 6, 1965
Launch	December 15, 1965
takeover	June 22, 1966
Commissioning	4th July 1966
Decommissioning	2004
Whereabouts	Scrapped in India in 2004
Ship dimensions and crew
length	134.4 m ( Lüa )
width	19.9 m
Draft	Max. 5.2 m
measurement	7,458 GT
Machine system
machine	2 × Wärtsilä Sulzer 8RD56 diesel engines
Machine ; performance	10,300 kW (14,004 hp)
Top ; speed	21 kn (39 km / h)
propeller	2
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers	1,400
Vehicle capacity	241 cars
Others
Registration ; numbers	IMO 6605450

The Finnpartner was a ferry of the Finnish shipping company Finnlines put into service in 1966 and belonged to a series of four sister ships . In its 36 years of active service, the ship was in service across Europe under several names and owners. In 2004, the scrapping of the two years' follow previously discarded ferry in the Indian Alang .

history

The Finnpartner a cruise in Kiel, April 1968

The Finnpartner was ordered on February 12, 1965 and laid down on April 6 of the same year under hull number 380 in the Wärtsilä shipyard in Helsinki . The launch took place on December 15, 1965. After delivery to Finnlines on June 22, 1966, the ship began ferry service between Helsinki, Nynäshamn / Slite , Karlskrona and Lübeck on July 4 . Her sister ships were the Finnhansa (1966), the Prins Hamlet (1966) and the Bohème (1968).

In addition to its main route, Finnpartner occasionally used other routes in the following years. Among other things, she took on several trips to Kiel that were marketed as cruises . In October 1968, for promotional purposes, the ship lay next to Tower Bridge in London for five days , where it hosted an export exhibition called Finnfocus-68 .

In December 1968 the ferry was acquired by the Svea Line . The ship, now renamed Sveaborg , was taken over after its last crossing for Finnlines in January 1969. From then on, she was in service between Helsinki, Copenhagen and Travemünde under the Trave Lines charter .

In March 1977 the Aarhus-Oslo Line chartered the ship under the name Peer Gynt for the service from Aarhus to Oslo . After completing the charter, the Peer Gynt became the property of Stena Line , which it renamed Stena Baltica . After extensive modernization and renovation work in the Nobiskrug shipyard, she was used as a residential ship for offshore systems from March 1979, before it was launched in Gothenburg in 1981 .

The Greek Dane Sea Line became the new owner in April 1982 . In the same year, the ferry began service as Ialyssos on the routes from Piraeus , Patmos , Leros , Kalymnos , Kos and Rhodes as well as from Astypalea to Nisyros , Tilos , Symi and Kastelorizo . In 1998 the Ialyssos switched to the route from Piraeus to Crete . At this time, the Dane Sea Line was in financial difficulties, as a result of which the ship, like all other units in the fleet, was neglected and was soon in poor condition.

In October 2000 the Ialyssos was arrested due to a machine failure and her general condition. After a long layover, the ship was sold to an unknown owner in Cambodia in January and renamed Salim . In the same year it was sold on to the Greek Farley Shipping Line, which it used as Noura I under the management of Sunlight Shipping & Maritime Transport between Suez and Jeddah .

In 2004, the Noura I was sold for demolition and transferred under the shortened name of Noura to Alang, India, where it arrived on May 18, 2004.

Web links

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