MS Rahal was 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 and later she was named
MS Alandia
Diana on her maiden voyage at Stockholm in 1972
Viking Line Abp is an Åland-based shipping company that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between Åland, mainland Finland, Sweden and Estonia. The company is headquartered in Mariehamn, Ål
MS Rahal
…Rahal. 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…
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.