I lived across the Stocckholm inlet from Finnboda docks, and I remember the fire aboard her.
@msSuukkoIIBalticSea
Ай бұрын
The ship was much unlucky. We have some parts of that ship in our own ship. E.g. metal handrailings from a Sallys nightclub. Railings have been colored by the fire.😅
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Haha nice! 😁
@raunce91
Ай бұрын
'She had a successful career under Silja Line' - me thinking yeah, she didn't sink or burn down once 😂
@KaFei82
25 күн бұрын
only crashed lightly several times at St. Petersburg
@sullanciri2002
Ай бұрын
Recently, Celestyal Cruises posted an official statement that the Crystal had (after all) not been sold to the Japanese - although they haven't put the ship back on active duty and have not answered questions regarding what is now happening to her.
@somdusazerate
Ай бұрын
I remember going on it in 2002 and because it looked so striking compared to other ferries I just assumed it was brand new, even though at that point it hardly was. Shame I can't remember much else.
@USA-Truck-Train-Ship-Car-lover
Ай бұрын
This ship is a real warrior, and a lucky one, other ship are wrecked, she fighting and comes back on the sea's.
@IZAQ_
27 күн бұрын
Luckily we still have her sister, currently named the Regina Baltica still sailing, still looking very similar to how she looked originally.
@bazza945
Ай бұрын
A ship with more lives than a cat.
@Saukko31
2 ай бұрын
I saw the ship after she had grounded, when I traveled to Stockholm on another ferry. I remember the big cranes. I didn't know she still exists.
@jarmoluotonen
12 күн бұрын
A few corrections to the story: M/S Viking Saga - along with her sister M/S Viking Song (today M/S Regina Baltica of Balearia) - were ordered by Rederi Ab Sally, which was one of 3 owners of Viking Line at the time. In mid-1980`s Rederi Ab Sally ran into financial troubles due to their side businesses in the English Channel & Caribbean - and eventually landed in the ownership of the rival company Silja Line. Even before the change of the ownership the other owners of Viking Line - SF-Line (the current Viking Line) & Rederi Ab Slite - were getting fed up with RAB Sally and threw them out of Helsinki-Stockholm -line by bringing two new vessels to the route: ”Mariella” of SF-Line in 1985 (replacing ”Viking Song”) and her sister ”Olympia” of RAB Slite in 1986 (replacing ”Viking Saga”). ”Viking Song” was sold to Fred Olsen, but ”Viking Saga” _remained_ in the ownership of Sally and was converted to ”Sally Albatross”. By the time the ship was rebuilt after the fire, Sally was no more than subsidiary of Silja Line but kept the own brand - until the Porkkala accident. After that the ship again _remained_ in the ownership of Silja Line but was leased out to first sail in the Caribbean as ”Leeward” and later in Far East as ”Superstar Taurus”. In 2002 the ship _returned_ to Silja Line after the lease with Star Cruises ended and was renamed ”Silja Opera”. Sidenote: one of my favourite ships (the 1992 version), though I only made one Helsinki-Tallinn -cruise with my parents onboard her as ”Sally Albatross” in 1993 and two Helsinki-Visby -cruises as ”Silja Opera” (2002 & 2003).
@alannewman85
2 ай бұрын
In her original appearance she resembled Estonia!
@Ah01
Ай бұрын
Yeah, the same utterly senseless positioning of the superstruckture, not to see the tip of the front vizor from the bridge.
@alannewman85
Ай бұрын
I understand you, but, try to also remember, that knowledge is all after the fact. Many ro/ro’s operated safely like that back then. And Estonia did have a camera on the ramp so the Deck Officers quite possibly would have been aware of what had happened down there.
@Ah01
Ай бұрын
@@alannewman85 Yeah, but the cameras were inside, and the intact drive ramp covered what took place with the vizor outside, until it was too late. The small leak that occured was not taken seriously enough, which is one of the human errors. Wondered the stupid superstruckture and bridge positioning already when I traveled aboard Viking Sally some 1987ish...
@alannewman85
Ай бұрын
Yes, it all seems tragically obvious in retrospect. It was comparable with Herald Of Free Enterprise since the doors could no be seen from the bridge.
@IZAQ_
27 күн бұрын
In some ways with the blocky super structure, however parts of her exterior and much of her interior layout was very different to the Estonia
@CaptainsVoyage
Ай бұрын
Good summary, but a significant part of her life as Leeward with Norwegian Cruise Line has completely been omitted in this summary.
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
Thank you! And that’s completely on me, I simply missed that part for some reason, but I’ll make sure to do better in the next video!
@HillCountryVista
Ай бұрын
Certainly makes you think twice about any ship you step on to.
@eedesign878
Ай бұрын
It had also bow visor accident similar to Estonia right on first year 1980, I wrote more about it on my own comment..
@siljaships1084
2 ай бұрын
Great video!
@TheShipChannel
2 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@jukkapiironen1703
2 ай бұрын
Nice history, but hard to read all white-grey comments on grey video..better contrast please🙂
@TheShipChannel
2 ай бұрын
Thank you! And thanks for the feedback, I will fix that for the next video 😄
@7pdude
Ай бұрын
@@TheShipChannel narrator would be even better because i find it quite difficult to read carefully and watch the current footage at the same time.
@SPPhotography89
Ай бұрын
@@TheShipChannel and those jeans a little lower. youtube's own texts cover some of the texts.
@RasmusHellenberg
2 ай бұрын
Bro turned into a fact channel :P
@TheShipChannel
2 ай бұрын
Jaaa men vafan folk verkar ju kolla så xd
@kruiskop1
Ай бұрын
The text is sadly mostly illegible:-(
@TheShipChannel
Ай бұрын
That might on depend on the device you’re using, but I’ll put the text further up in the next video!
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