MS Bore Star
MS Wasa Queen in Helsinki in the late 1990s in Silja Line colours.
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| Ordered: | June 1973 |
| Builder: | Dubegion-Normandie S.A., Nantes, France |
| Yard number: | 143 |
| Laid down: | 16. 9. 1974 |
| Launched: | 30. 1. 1975 |
| Acquired: | 2. 12. 1975 |
| In service: | 11. 12. 1975 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 7360198 |
| Status: | In service |
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| Tonnage: | 12343 GRT |
| Displacement: | 1,800 tonnes deadweight (DWT) |
| Length: | 153.00 m (501.97 ft) |
| Beam: | 22.04 m (72.31 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.10 m (20.01 ft) |
| Ice class: | 1 A |
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| Speed: | 21 knots |
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| General characteristics (currently) | |
| Tonnage: | 16546 GRT |
| Displacement: | 1,995 DWT |
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MS Arberia is a cruiseferry owned by Chryses Finance Co. and operated by Ilion Lines on their Trieste–Durres–Bari -service. She was built in 1975 by Dubegion-Normandie S.A., Nantes, France for Steamship Company Bore, Finland as MS Bore Star for Steamship Company Bore who used her in Silja Line services on the Baltic Sea. During the northern hemisphere winter months she was chartered to Finnlines for cruise services on African west coast. In 1980 she was sold to Finland Steamship Company and renamed MS Silja Star but retained in Silja Line service. Between 1986 and 1992 she was used in different cruise and ferry services around the world for various operators under the names MS Orient Express, MS Club Sea, MS Eurosun and MS Orient Sun. In 1992 her ownership passed to Wasa Line and she was renamed MS Wasa Queen for Baltic Sea ferry service. In 1993 Wasa Line was merged into Silja Line and Wasa Queen returned to the Silja Line fleet. In 2001 she was sold to Star Cruises for use in Far Eastern ferry service and later casino cruising with their daughter company Cruise Ferries without a change in name. In 2008 Wasa Queen was withdrawn from service, and in 2009 sold to her current owners.
In 1972 the Finnish-Swedish ferry consortium Silja Line started around-the-year car/passenger ferry traffic between Helsinki and , the capitals of Finland and Sweden respectively. The route proved highly profitable and after just one year of traffic Silja Line's owners (Finland Steamship Company, Rederi AB Svea and Steamship Company Bore) decided that each company would order a ship of identical design from the same shipyard that had built the 1972 ships.
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