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Ship name | MS Silja Symphony |
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Ship owner | Tallink Group |
Ship registry | Stockholm, |
Ship route | Helsinki–Mariehamn–Stockholm |
Ship builder | Masa-Yards, Turku, Finland |
Ship in service | 1991 |
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Ship type | Cruiseferry |
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Ship ice class | 1 A Super |
Ship propulsion | 4 × Wärtsilä-Vasa 9R46 diesel engines, |
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Ship capacity | 2,626 passengers (originally), 2,852 (currently)986 cabins450 vehicles (950 lane meters) |
On February 7, 1996, the ship was grounded in the Stockholm archipelago. In December of the same year her engines were upgraded with so-called water-spray technology that greatly reduced nitrogen oxide emissions. In order to keep tax free sales on the Helsinki–Stockholm ships when the EU changed its tax free legislation, a stop at Mariehamn was added to the route in June 1999. On August 6, 2001, a swarm of fish got sucked in to the ship's cooling water intakes, which resulted in the engines shutting down due to overheating. Due to the engine problem the ship arrived in Helsinki some 1½ hours late.
In January 2004 the ship made two special cruises to Tallinn, Estonia for the Finnish company SOK. Similar cruises were made again in January 2005. In January–February 2006, just prior to the sale of Silja Line to Tallink, the Symphony and her sister had their interiors extensively rebuilt at Luonnonmaan telakka, Naantali. During a storm on January 9, 2007 the Symphony accidentally rammed a boarding tube in the port of Mariehamn, resulting in approximately €600,000 worth of damage.
There are some small external differences by which the Symphony can be told apart from her sister: the outer decks on the Symphony are painted light blue (they are green on the Serenade), the eyes of the seal in Symphonys funnel are blue whereas they are white with a blue outline on the Serenade, and the light box with the ship's name on it is white on the Symphony, but blue on the Serenade.
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