MS Cinderella

History
Viking Cinderella in its new livery.

Name:	1989–2003: Cinderella 2003 onwards: Viking Cinderella
Owner:	1989–1995: SF Line 1995–2003: Viking Line 2003 onwards: Viking Rederi
Operator:	1989–1995: SF Line (in Viking Line traffic) 1995 onwards: Viking Line
Port of registry:	1989–2003: Mariehamn, Finland 2003 onwards: , Sweden
Route:	Stockholm–Mariehamn Stockholm–Riga (summers only) Stockholm–Tallinn (summers only) This ship also featured in Kanal 5's series Färjan.
Builder:	Wärtsilä Marine Perno Shipyard, Turku, Finland
Cost:	SEK 850 million
Yard number:	1302
Laid down:	15 December 1988
Launched:	15 April 1989
Completed:	25 October 1989
Acquired:	7 November 1989
In service:	8 November 1989
Identification:	Call sign: SEAI IMO number: 8719188 MMSI number: 266027000
Status:	In service
General characteristics (as built, 1989)
Type:	cruiseferry
Tonnage:	46,398 GT 4,228 DWT
Length:	191.00 m (626 ft 8 in)
Beam:	29.60 m (97 ft 1 in)
Draught:	6.60 m (21 ft 8 in)
Depth:	14.65 m (48 ft 1 in)
Decks:	12 (11 passenger accessible)
Ice class:	1 A Super
Installed power:	4 × Wärtsilä-Sulzer 12ZAV40S combined 28,800 kW (38,600 hp)
Speed:	22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Capacity:	2,700 passengers 2,700 passenger berths 480 cars
General characteristics (as rebuilt, 2003)
Speed:	21 knots (38.89 km/h; 24.17 mph)
Capacity:	2,560 passengers 2,500 passenger berths 100 cars 760 lane metres of cargo
Notes:	Otherwise the same as built

MS Viking Cinderella is a cruiseferry built in 1989 at Wärtsilä Marine Perno Shipyard in Turku, Finland, as MS Cinderella for SF Line, one of the owners of the Viking Line consortium. She's currently used on cruise traffic from to Mariehamn and occasionally Riga during the summer.

The Cinderella was planned in the later half of the 1980s as the new flagship for SF Line. Her interior layout was based on that of MS Mariella but with more space and additional facilities. SF Line originally planned the Cinderella to take over the Mariella's place in Helsinki–Stockholm traffic (the Mariella would have been placed on a new route from Helsinki to Norrköping). The plan was never realised however, and when completed the Cinderella was placed as a third ship on the Helsinki–Stockholm route, with departures from Helsinki on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (at 19:30 instead of the normal 18:00), with a 25-hour (later 24-hour) cruise from Helsinki on Sundays. The one-day cruises proved very popular and after a few years they were made also on Fridays and Saturdays. During 1988-89 SF Line made plans to order a sister for Cinderella, to be built at Brodogradiliste Split. The plan was abandoned when Euroway came in between and made a big two ship order at the yard.

In 1993, after the other Viking Line partner Rederi AB Slite went bankrupt, the Cinderella took over MS Olympia's place on the Helsinki–Stockholm route, sailing in tandem with the Mariella. At this time her passenger capacity was upgraded to 2,700, but it was soon lowered back to 2500. In autumn 1994 she swapped routes with MS Isabella, returning to making 24 (later 20) hour cruises from Helsinki to Tallinn. In summers 1995 and 1996 Cinderella sailed on the Turku–Mariehamn–Stockholm route, freeing MS Rosella for the seasonal Naantali–Mariehamn–Kapellskär route. In summers 2002 and 2003 Cinderella made cruises from Helsinki to Riga in addition to the normal 20 hour Tallinn cruises.

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