MS Color Festival

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M/S Color Festival is a cruiseferry, built in 1985 by Wärtsilä at the Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland. She was given the name M/S Svea and was owned by Johnson Line AB and operated for Silja Line. She is currently operating for Color Line on the Oslo - Fredrikshavn route.

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[edit] History

[edit] Silja Line Years

M/S Svea and her sister M/S Wellamo were modeled after Silja Line's highly successful Helsinki - Stockholm service ferries M/S Finlandia and M/S Silvia Regina. The main difference to the older pair of ships was outer appearance of the new sisters: where Finlandia and her sister had had a very box-like exterior, the new sisters for the Turku route had extremely attractive rounded looks that have caused many people to consider them as some of the most attractive cruiseferries of all times.

In 1989 there were plans to rebuild Svea with rails on the cardeck so that she could also carry railroad carriages onboard, but these were shelved. Until 1990 her funnel displayed the colours of Johnson Line, but at that time Silja Line's owners Johnson Line and Effoa merged into one company, EffJohn, and Silja Line's seal logo was moved from the ship's hulls into their funnels.

In 1992 Svea and her sister underwent a large-scale reconstruction at Lloyds Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany where most of the ships' interiors were rebuilt, a new skybar added on deck 9, a new more blue-dominated colour scheme replaced the traditional Silja stripes and the ship was renamed Silja Karneval in accordance with Silja's new name policy. In fact the funds used to rebuild Svea and Wellamo were originally meant for rebuilding of the GTS Finnjet, but her planned rebuilding would have been too expensive and EffJohn opted to spend what money they had on Svea and Wellamo instead.

[edit] Color Line Years

Silja Karneval's service on Silja proved to be short. In early 1994 EffJohn decided to sell her sister Silja Festival to Norway-based Color Line. However, when time came to deliver the ship to Color Line, EffJohn for some reason decided to sell them Silja Karneval instead (the two ships being identical it didn't really matter which would be sold). Problematically for Color Line, they had already printed material advertising their new ship as the Color Festival. As result Silja Karneval became M/S Color Festival, not Color Karneval as would have been logical.

After reconstruction at Cityvarvet, Gothenburg, Color Festival was initially placed on the Oslo - Hirtshals route. In 2002 she damaged one of her rudders in Hirsthals and had to be docked in Hamburg because of it. In April 2006 she started operating on the Oslo - Fredrikshavn route in direct competition with her old Silja Line fleetmate M/S Stena Saga (now of Stena Line).

[edit] Onboard

[edit] Restaurants & Cafés

  • Captains Grill
  • Casa Margharita
  • Trattoria Riviera
  • Buffet Veranda
  • Cafè Maritim

[edit] Activities

  • Color NetCafè
  • Fontana Poolarea
  • Cinema
  • Color Land

[edit] Bars, Nightclubs & Entertainment

  • Panorama Bar
  • Casino Bar
  • Dancing Palace
  • Sailors Pub
  • Fun Fun Nightclub

[edit] Shopping

  • Tax Free Supermarket
  • Color Shop
  • Fashion Shop
  • Perfume Shop

[edit] Conference

  • Color Conference Center

[edit] Main Particulars

  • Built: 1985 (OY Wärtsila Helsinki Shipyard)
  • Length over all: 168m
  • Breadth, wl mld: 27,6 m
  • Dept: 6.5m
  • Tonnage: estimate GT: 34314
  • Register: NOR
  • Class: Det Norske Veritas
  • Max Speed: 23 knots
  • Machines: 36000 HK
  • Passengers: 2000
  • Cabins: 577
  • Cars: 330
  • Trailers, lanemeter: 850
  • Home Port: Oslo

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[edit] External links

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