MS Stena Fantasia
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| Port of registry: | Nassau,  Bahamas |
| Builder: | Kockums Varv AB, Sweden |
| Yard number: | 569 |
| Launched: | 1 December 1979 |
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| Tonnage: | 8,919 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 163.51 m (536.5 ft) |
| Beam: | 23.04 m (75.6 ft) |
| Draught: | 28.4 m (93.2 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Sulzer 7RLA56 |
| Speed: | 19 kn (35.2 km/h) |
MS Stena Fantasia is a ferry launched in 1979 as the Scandinavia. She spent a large part of her career serving the Dover-Calais cross channel ferry route with successive operators. She is currently in service with Polferries as the Wawel.
The Stena Fantasia started life as the Scandinavia, ordered by and for Rederi AB Nordö, Malmö for services in the Eastern Mediterranean. She was launched at the Kockums Varv AB shipyard in Malmö, Sweden on 1 December 1979 and delivered to Rederi AB Nordö on 17 March 1980, opening a service between Koper, Yugoslavia and Tartous, Syria in April 1980. On 7 June 1980, the Scandinavia's sister ship, Zenobia capsized on her maiden voyage roughly 2 km away from Larnaca, Cyprus, this precipitated the end of Rederi's Yugoslavia to Syria service. In April 1982 the two remaining vessels Scandinavia and her sister Ariadne were sold to Bulgarian So Mejdunaroden Automobile Transport (SOMAT) and the Scandinavia was renamed Tzarevetz. Under SOMAT ownership, the Tzarevetz was operated using the MedLink brand running trans-Mediterranean services until 1984 when she was chartered back to Rederi AB to run a service between Greece and Italy. A further charter in 1987 saw her transfer first to the Baltic Sea, and then later in 1988 a brief charter running a service in the North Sea for DFDS. In November 1988, both the Tzarvetz and her sister, which had been renamed Trapezitza were sold to Sealink British Ferries.
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