MS Silja Festival
- Wellamo
IMO no. 8306498
The Silja Festival is a ferry that was used by Tallink since 2 August 2008 to May 2013 for traffic between Stockholm and Riga. The home port of the vessel sailing under the flag of Latvia is Riga.
The ship was from 1984 to 1985 under the name Wellamo by the former Wärtsilä shipyard (now STX Finland Cruise Oy to STX Europe belonging ) in Helsinki, built Finland and on 2 January 1986, the then Finska Ångfartygs AB ( today Tallink Silja Oy, → see Silja Line) delivered. After a renovation in 1992 at the Lloyd shipyard in Bremerhaven it was renamed Silja Festival '. After a brief stint for Silja Line Euroway in the southern Baltic Sea between Malmö, Copenhagen and Lübeck in 1993 and 1994, the ship was then except for a few exceptions, mainly on the route Stockholm - operated Turko ( Åbo ) - Mariehamn. After the Silja Oy was acquired by Tallink in July 2006, the Silja Festival went on to Tallink. Since 2008, the ship, which is classified with the ice class 1A Super, now being used by Tallink on the route Stockholm -Riga, but retained despite a recent paint in the colors Tallink Silja Festival the previous name. On April 5, 2013 Tallink announced the purchase of Viking Line ferry Isabella known which henceforth replaces under the name Isabelle Silja Festival on the route Stockholm -Riga with a higher passenger and vehicle capacity. From 5 May 2013, the Silja Festival in Riga was launched. Currently the ship in Vancouver serves as a hotel.
Sister ship of the Silja Festival 's Mega Smeralda.