MS Bluefort
MS Bluefort is a car/passenger ferry owned by the Cayman Islands-based company Highclere, under conversion into an Accommodation and Repair Vessel thus also known as (ARV). She was built in 1979 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany as Diana II av Slite for Rederi AB Slite for use in Viking Line's traffic. She has also sailed under the names Diana II, Vironia, Mare Balticum, Meloodia and ARV 1.
Background
Tonnage war in the Baltic
Rederi AB Slite had great success with their first generation of car and passenger ferries servicing between Sweden and Finland and by the late 1970s the growing market demanded larger ships. Slite's first route within the Viking Line marketing company had been that between Kapellskär and Naantali but this route had since been clogged with Viking Line ships and received competition from Silja Line's similar service between Norrtälje and Turku.
As a first step to find new markets, Rederi AB Slite had sold their merely six years old Apollo in 1976 and replaced her with the older Apollo III, making 24-hour cruises between Stockholm and Mariehamn. The company still served the Kapellskär—Naantali route with their other ship, the 1972-built Diana. But with four other Viking Line ships competing for the same cars and passengers on that route, Slite still needed to break new grounds to keep themselves profitable.
MS Jamaa II
MS Jamaa II is a car-passenger ferry owned by Bayway Shipping Co and sailing on the Red Sea. She was built in 1972 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany as Diana for Rederi AB Slite.
History
Viking Line service
Diana was the fourth in a series of six near-identical sisters built between 1970 and 1974 for Rederi Ab Sally and Rederi AB Slite for use in Viking Line traffic (three further ships were built by the shipyard for Transbordadores, Mexico). These so-called Papenburg Sisters were highly influential in defining ferry traffic between Finland and Sweden. Although often officially listed as fully owned by Rederi AB Slite, Diana was actually owned jointly by Rederi Ab Volo, Rederi AB Slite, Simsonship Ab, Ivar Sund Lidingö and Ab Nils Thorwaldsson Saltsjöbaden.
When delivered in December 1972, Diana was initially set on a route connecting Naantali in Finland to Kapellskär in Sweden via Mariehamn in the Åland Islands. For the winter seasons 1973–1974, 1974–1975 and 1975–1976, she was transferred to the slightly longer Turku–Mariehamn–Stockholm route, but returned to the shorter route for summer's high season. From 1976 onwards to the end of her service with Viking Line she remained on the Naantali–Kapellskär service. On July 4, 1978 Diana was grounded near Mariehamn and started leaking oil. The following day her passengers were transferred onboard Kapella and freight onboard Travetal. On July 6 she managed to come loose and sailed to Finnboda dock, Nacka (near Stockholm), for repairs.
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