Sinking of the MS Estonia
MS Estonia sank on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, between about 00:50 and 01:50 (UTC+2) as the ship was crossing the Baltic Sea, en route from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm, Sweden. The sinking was one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century. It is one of the deadliest peacetime sinkings of a European ship, after the Titanic in 1912 and the Empress of Ireland in 1914, and the deadliest peacetime shipwreck to have occurred in European waters, with 852 lives stated at the time as officially lost.
One of Estonia's inflatable life rafts, filled with water
Super Puma OH-HVG of the Finnish Border Guard flying
The bow visor would be lifted and put in Muskö military base.
Estonia memorial in Tallinn
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.
