SPL Princess Anastasia
SPL Princess Anastasia in Stockholm
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The SPL Princess Anastasia is a ferry that has been used by the Russian St. Peter Line since March 31, 2011 in traffic between Stockholm , Tallinn and Saint Petersburg . Visiting Russia on board this ship is visa-free for 72 hours, as is the case on board the Princess Maria , which was in service between Helsinki and Saint Petersburg until November 2016 .
history
The ship was built in 1986 by the Wärtsilä Perno shipyard in Turku , Finland and delivered to Rederi AB Slite, which was part of the Viking Line at the time . The construction of the ship was commissioned on September 10, 1984, the keel was laid on April 1, 1985. The launch took place on August 31, 1985 and since April 29, 1986 the ferry was used under the name Olympia as the sister ship of the Mariella on the Helsinki - Stockholm route. In 1993 it was sold to Irish Continental Group , chartered to P&O European Ferries, renamed Pride of Bilbao and later briefly Bilbao and operated on the Portsmouth - Bilbao route until the line was discontinued in September 2010.
In January 2011, the ship was converted in Lithuania for Princess Maria Ltd for the service of the St. Peter Line on the route Saint Petersburg - Stockholm - Tallinn - Saint Petersburg. Since then, the ship has been named after the Russian-German princess Anastasia . It started sailing under the flag of Malta with its home port Valletta. From September 12, 2011 the ship operated weekly according to the timetable Saint Petersburg - Tallinn - Stockholm - Saint Petersburg - Helsinki - Mariehamn - Stockholm - Tallinn - Saint Petersburg. Travelers from Russia or third countries who had a single-entry visa into the Schengen area could only leave the ship in Finland once.
In 2014 the ship was used as a hotel ship during the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi .
Moby Lines joined the shipping company in 2016 . In January 2017, Moby Lines took over the ship and renamed Princess Anastasia . It sails under the flag of Italy with its home port in Naples . It has been in use on the St Petersburg - Helsinki - Tallinn - Stockholm - Helsinki - Petersburg route since April 2017.
Section of the ferry
Comments:
автопалуба =
car deck ресторан = restaurant
каюты = cabins
Incidents
On May 18, 2012, the ship was evacuated in Stockholm after a bomb threat. A search for explosives was unsuccessful.
On November 6, 2019, the Princess Anastasia ran aground shortly after leaving Stockholm off Lidingö . The cause of the accident was a blackout. After landing at around 6 p.m., the damaged vessel was towed free again at around 8 p.m. and towed to the ferry terminal in Stockholm's free port. People were not harmed. The next day the ship was used again.
Web links
- Information about the ship on the website of the St. Peter Line
- Technical details and history of the ship ( Olympia ) on Fakta om fartyg (swed.)
Individual evidence
- ^ New visa-free ferry line «Stockholm-St. Petersburg »is opened ( Memento from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the St. Peter Line, April 5, 2011 (English)
- ^ Ferry baptized in Petersburg , March 31, 2011 (Russian)
- ↑ Timetable of Princess Anastasia ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (2011)
- ↑ Karmistub Peterburi kaudu kurseeriva laeva Kontrollimine piiril (Estonian) Postimees, February 9, 2012.
- ^ Moby Lines partially acquired Russian ferry operator St Peter Line. September 28, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2018 .
- ^ M / S Olympia. Retrieved April 29, 2017 .
- ↑ esys.org of November 7, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2020