Svea Regina
 As Tallink in Tallinn, 1994
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The Svea Regina was a ferry from the Swedish shipping company Stockholms Rederi AB Svea , which entered service in 1972. The ship, meanwhile also used for cruises , changed its name and owner several times before it was retired in 2005 and scrapped in India .
history
The Svea Regina was laid down on June 2, 1971 under the hull number 127 near Dubegion-Normandie in Nantes and launched on December 3, 1971. Originally it was supposed to be put into service for the Finnish shipping company Silja Line , but then went to Rederi AB Svea. After its delivery on May 25, 1972, the ship was put into service on June 5, 1972 on the route from Stockholm to Helsinki .
In the following years, the Svea Regina was in service on various ferry routes. From June to September 1977 she was chartered to the Cie Nationale Algerienne de Navigation Maritime and used from Algiers to Marseille . After the ship was then back in service for a short time in Swedish waters, it served as a barge in the port of Stord from March to May 1978 .
After she had been in the ferry service off Sweden again from May to September 1978, the Svea Regina was sold as Regina to Finska Ångfartygs Ab and from then on used under the charter of Polska Zegluga Baltycka on the route between Danzig , Nynäshamn and Helsinki. After the charter expired, the ship undertook a single cruise from Kiel to Kirkenes in April 1979 , before returning to the ferry service between Turku and Stockholm in June .
Brittany Ferries chartered the Regina in September 1979 and continued to use her on the route from Turku to Stockholm in October. After only one month, however, the ship was sold to Karageorgis Lines in November 1979 and transferred to Greece as Mediterranean Sun , where it was launched in 1980 on the route from Patras to Ancona .
After lying unused in Piraeus in 1981 , the Mediterranean Sun moved under the name Odysseas Elytis to the route from Ancona via Piraeus and Heraklion to Alexandria and in the following year from Piraeus to Rhodes . In December 1983, the ship was used to evacuate soldiers from the Palestine Liberation Organization from Beirut . In 1984 it resumed normal ferry operations between Ancona and Alexandria.
In June 1985 the Odysseas Elytis went to the Bahamas- based cruise line SeaEscape as Scandinavian Sky . After the ship was converted in Rendsburg for cruise operations, it began service for short trips between Miami and Nassau in July 1985 .
In December 1989 the Scandinavian Sky went under the name Tallink to the shipping company of the same name and was used between Helsinki and Tallinn from January 1990 .
On April 22, 1995, the Tallink ran onto a reef off Sveaborg , which tore a three-meter-long hole in the hull and the machinery failed. The 981 passengers on board had to be evacuated, then the ship was towed into the port of Sveaborg. After repair work in Åbo, it was put back into service on June 26, 1995.
After a modernization in December 1996, the Tallink was sold as Mama Tanzania in July 1998 and taken over by Sayed Nasr Navigation Lines in Egypt in October , which she used from 1999 as an Eltor for pilgrimages between Suez and Jedda .
In 2001 the Eltor was renamed Monte Carlo before it changed the name to El Safa in the same year . After a further four years in service, the ship was sold in April 2005 for scrapping in Alang , India , where it arrived on September 21, 2005 under the transfer name Safa .
Sister ship
The sister ship of the Svea Regina was the Aallotar of the Silja Line, which was also commissioned in 1972 and had been in service as Rogalin since 1978 . The ship, which was decommissioned in 2003, was scrapped in Alang in spring 2004 about a year before the former Svea Regina .
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)