MS Estonia was a
cruise ferry built in 1979/80 at the German shipyard
Meyer Werft in
Papenburg. The ship sank in 1994 in the
Baltic Sea in one of the worst
maritime disasters of the 20th century. It is the second-deadliest peacetime sinking of a European ship, after the
RMS Titanic, and the deadliest peacetime shipwreck to have occurred in European waters, with 852 lives lost.
This has been a group project:- JStar (hull, interior, exterior, bridge, vehicles, paint job)- JoMiner (interior, cabins, vehicles)- CronosDarth (public rooms, engine room)- CreeperCraftCity (historical support)- Philipp (hull, cabins, interior, paint job)
| History |
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| Name: | - 1980–1990: Viking Sally
- 1990–1991: Silja Star
- 1991–1993: Wasa King
- 1993–1994: Estonia
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| Owner: | |
| Operator: | |
| Port of registry: | |
| Ordered: | 1979-09-11 |
| Builder: | Meyer Werft, Papenburg, West Germany |
| Yard number: | 590 |
| Laid down: | 18 October 1979 |
| Launched: | 26 April 1980 |
| Acquired: | 29 June 1980 |
| In service: | 5 July 1980 |
| Identification: | |
| Fate: | Capsized and sank on 28 September 1994 |
| General characteristics |
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| Type: | Ro Ro Passenger Cruise |
| Tonnage: | |
| Length: | - 155.43 m (509 ft 11 in) (as built)
- 157.02 m (515.16 ft) (1984 onwards)
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| Beam: | 24.21 m (79 ft 5 in) |
| Draught: | 5.60 m (18 ft 4 in) |
| Decks: | 9 |
| Ice class: | 1A |
| Installed power: | - 4 × MAN 8L40/45
- 17,625 kW (23,636 hp) (combined)
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| Speed: | 21.1 knots (39.1 km/h; 24.3 mph) |
| Capacity: | - 2,000 passengers
- 1,190 passenger berths
- 460 cars
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11 replies
Your talent for shipbuilding is incredible.
Such a tragedy though :(
May the 852 lives lost on her "Rest in Peace".
(PS, my grandfather who was an Estonian travelled onboard her many times before she sank, He was not onboard the ship when she sank).