MS Regina Baltica
Regina Baltica, 2009
- Anna K.
- Anna Karenina
- Braemar
- Baltica
- Viking song
Lloyd 's Register of Shipping
IMO no. 7827225
The Regina Baltica is a built as a ferry boat that was used in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. 2013, the ship was converted into a hotel ship for use in offshore wind farms.
History
It was built to Regina Baltica 1980 as Viking song for the Viking Line, which began along with its sister ship Viking Saga as a ferry between Helsinki and Stockholm. In 1985 the ship was sold to Fred Olsen Line and used as Bramear between Oslo and Hirtshals, and between Oslo and Harwich. In December 1990, Fred sold. Olsen Line ferry service to their color line, but not the Bramear. In January 1991, the ship of Baltic Shipping Company was chartered and should be used under the name of Baltica between St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and Stockholm. However, this could not be realized, and so the ship was temporarily laid up in Hamburg. In the same month, the ship was chartered by the Russian army in order to transport troops from the former GDR. The renamed Anna Karenina ship was severely devastated by the Russian troops and had to be repaired in Hamburg. As of March 1991 sat Baltic Line, the ship on the route St. Petersburg (Leningrad) - Nynäshamn - Kiel. This route was discontinued in 1995, Baltic Line was declared bankrupt in 1996.
The ship was renamed Anna K., returned to Fred. Olsen Line back, was launched in Germany and sold in 1996 to Estline. Renamed in Regina Baltica was used between Stockholm and Tallinn. The end of 2000 was Estline part of Tallink. In spring 2005, the ship was chartered by NATO for training purposes before Norway. On 27 September 2005, the ship ran aground in Swedish waters near Kapellskar due, but came under its own power again. In May 2006, the ship on this route was replaced by the Romantica and used on the Stockkholm -Riga route as the successor of Fantaasia and turn in April 2009 by the Romantica. The Regina Baltica was chartered by Acciona Trasmediterránea and used from 15 June 2009, between Almeria and Nador. On September 20, 2009, she came back to Tallink and was opened in Riga. End of May 2010, she was chartered again by Acciona Trasmediterránea. She used the line Almeria - Nador and was used from June to September 3, between Algeciras and Tangier.
On 11 September 2010, the ship arrived in the Faroe Islands to replace the soft smyril between Tvøroyri and Tórshavn during a shipyard stay. As of 15 October, the smyril again took over this route. From June to September 2011 drove the Regina Baltica in the Mediterranean on the route Almeria ( Spain) - Nador ( Morocco).
2012 Regina Baltica was converted into a hotel ship and first used for the construction of offshore wind farms Sheringham Shoal Farm in England. Early 2013 the ship was converted Offshore Maritime in Riga for the Swedish offshore service companies SWE and retrofitted with a helicopter deck at the bow. On board the ship, which can stay 30 to 40 days at sea, 200 people can be accommodated in single cabins. The vessel is used as a hotel ship for the wind farm Bard Offshore 1 since April 2013.
Sister ships
A sister ship, the Viking Saga, was converted in 1990, a cruise ship Sally Albatross and continues today as Louis Cristal for Louis Cruise Lines. Another sister ship, the Viking Sally, 1994 went down as Estonia.