MS Gabriella is a cruiseferry sailing on a route connecting Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden for Viking Line. She was built in 1992 in Brodosplit, Croatia as Frans Suell for service with Euroway. Between 1994 and 1997 she sailed as Silja Scandinavia for Silja Line.
Gabriella has sister ships Mega Victoria operated by Corsica Ferries, Isabelle operated by Tallink, and a third one, Crown Seaways, operated by DFDS Seaways.
MS Gabriella
Gabriella in Helsinki, May 1997. Note the all-red funnel and white-painted car ramps
MS Gabriella in Katajanokka in 2022.
A4 Standard cabin.
Viking Line Abp is a Finnish shipping company that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between Finland, the Åland Islands, Sweden and Estonia. Viking Line shares are quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Viking Line is operated from Åland.
Sun deck of the original SS Viking, photographed in 1963
MS Viking 5, built 1974 for Rederi Ab Sally, in Stockholm during her first year of service
MS Mariella, the world's largest cruiseferry 1985–89, at Kustaanmiekka strait, Helsinki
MS Cinderella was the largest cruiseferry in the world when delivered in 1989. In 2003 she was renamed MS Viking Cinderella and given the white livery displayed here.