During my maritime studies I used to be cadet there onboard back in 2002. Persons shown on this clip at bridge are Captain Carl Sviberg (1930-2014) and Chief Officer Seppo Ylitalo. Carl Sviberg was highly liked by his crew and extremely skilled captain to maneuver the vessel. He was allready retired legend when I was a cadet. Finnjet was the fastest conventional passengership in the world with top speed of 33,5 knots. Powered with Pratt & Whitney gas turbines similars as on Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 727 aircrafts, it was the first civil vessel with gas turbines and fourth in the world. It was also the first civil vessel in Finland and probably one of the first ones in globally with ECDIS navigation in the middle of the nineties. The christmas cruise mentioned on video back in December 2002 was my final trip as cadet. I visited as a passenger once more shortly before vessel left Finland last time.
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
An interesting read! Thank you! 😀
@IZAQ_
Ай бұрын
This ship is nothing but legendary. When she was launched she was not only the fastest ferry of all time but she was also the biggest. She is also considered to be the first cruise ferry ever built. Her effort in saving the M/S Estonia survivors also can not go without mention. All of this, all of her impressive history and design just for her to be beached at Alang and not even making a profit of it. It is sad I never was able to go with her, and I think most people here could agree that she should have been preserved as a museum of sorts instead of getting scrapped
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
I agree with you! A museum would be awesome
@pistonburner6448
Ай бұрын
It could've been the fastest museum in the world!
@janvanrenselaar5998
Ай бұрын
I have made several trip on the route Travemunde-Helsinki-Travemunde with the speedy gonzalez of the Baltic Sea. As a lorry driver i loaded a lot fruits and vegetables in Spain,Italoy and South of France for Finland. And from Finland we loaded a lot of garden peat in Eurajoki-Irjanne or Near Helsiki sugar-cubes for Spain. And we had always our weekly rest on that ferry. Nice and friendly crew,good food and the little swimmingpool are the things that stay with me forever.
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Sounds very nice! 😀
@zoolkhan
Ай бұрын
and the swimming pool had little windows for the lamps, that engine personnel could look through 🙂 i hope you kept the pants on haha
@okaro6595
Ай бұрын
It could do the trip Helsinki Travemünde in 22 hours. That meant it could sail every day at the same hour on opposite directions. Fir the comparison if you now take a trip on Finnlines to Travemünde it takes 30 hours. Also the current ships take a third of the passengers - even though they are bigger.
@Finland-SkiTeam39-40
Ай бұрын
...GTS Finnjet was first gasturbine-engine cruise ship in the world (build in 1977), also biggest and fastest at that time.
@VilmaHallikas
Ай бұрын
My younger sister got christened on Finnjet in 1996. We had a family friend who was part of the crew then and we sailed Helsinki-Travemunde-Helsinki many times in the 90's. The crew bar in the bow was nice. Loved that ship, it's a shame she got scrapped :(
@adrianobueno6984
Ай бұрын
Sad to see this kind of ending
@Velwichia
Ай бұрын
I travelled with Finnjet in 20th March 1978 from Helsinki to Travemunde
@kaukooja720
Ай бұрын
We travelled in september 1978. we almost met 😉
@joereima198
Ай бұрын
"due to a strike" In Finland of course.
@jackdoe3889
Ай бұрын
Tunnetaan myös Veikon Koneena, Konepäällikkö Veikko Haapasen mukaisesti. Satoja matkoja tullut tehtyä vuosikymmenten aikana. Paljon hyviä muistoja.
@salonjuna
Ай бұрын
Style, speed, confidence. Nothing else.
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
True! Truly one of a kind!
@Fortuna272
Ай бұрын
Texts are hard to read as they fade away too quickly before I can fully read them. Best practice here is to read them yourself and add twice the on screen time.
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Will do! Thank you for the feedback!
@PU8698
Ай бұрын
KZitem has a feature to slow down the playback.
@iceman0036
Ай бұрын
Jävlar va snabbt den fick mycket visningar👌
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Ja, är lite förvånad faktiskt 😅
@hanhi
Ай бұрын
My father was a helmsman on Finnjet in the late 70s.
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Nice!
@superadio1
Ай бұрын
Saw her many times during my job onboard MV ESTRELLA in 1985
@domeoriginal
Ай бұрын
June 1991 Helsinki-Travemunde for starting 3 weeks roadtrip in Europe.
@po902
Ай бұрын
Summer 1992 Hki-Traveműnde roadtrip for 1-2 weeks.
@djmoomoomoo
Ай бұрын
I was as a resident dj on Finnjet 2000 - 2004
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Nice! :)
@laivatietajaYT
Ай бұрын
I got many vid of Finnjet too! So sad she got scrapped
@helptheoceans
Ай бұрын
She was nice vessel as i work over there in Deck department
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Nice! I’m currently studying to become an able seaman :)
@454FatJack
Ай бұрын
June 1984 Hki-Travemunde
@airjuri
Ай бұрын
I think that i "traveled" with Finnjet couple of times :)
@roimikko
Ай бұрын
I cruised Finnjet from Helsinki to Tallinn
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Nice!
@SPPhotography89
Ай бұрын
me too.
@katjachristina7765
Ай бұрын
Me too
@ancca78
Ай бұрын
2 y old, 1980, Helsinki - Traveműnde
@SDU1969
Ай бұрын
An amazing ship!
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
I agree!
@nuolis
Ай бұрын
if i had money,i would recreate finnjet as cruise ship
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Same!
@mysticprophecy5395
Ай бұрын
If I had the money I’d rather build a ship in the style of early 1900 ocean steamers
@nuolis
Ай бұрын
@@mysticprophecy5395 titanic?
@mysticprophecy5395
Ай бұрын
@@nuolis perhaps but I’d rather go by my original design, of course inspired by titanic but also Aquintania, Empress of Ireland and more
@nuolis
Ай бұрын
@@mysticprophecy5395 i see
@janioutinen9171
Ай бұрын
You should`ve put talk instead of text to this video. Great ship tough.
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
I might do that in the future! :)
@lum3nk3hto
Ай бұрын
Very short story.
@siljaships1084
Ай бұрын
Great video 🙂
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Thanks mate 😎
@user-ko8xd4hg5u
Ай бұрын
Hon var helt unik inte helt utan vibrationer 😅
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Kan tänka mig det 😅
@mhyotyni
Ай бұрын
Ja, man kunde alltid känna vibrationer på diskodäcket- somliga tyckte att det var en bra sak! 💘😉
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