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Photos from a 1932 Finland Steamship Co. booklet titled "To Finland - Winter Sailings October-April 1932-33"
Please note that the fairly poor quality of the images below are due to small original photos in the booklet.
The Arcturus (2,155 grt, 291 ft. long) was built in 1899 and ended her career with Finland Line in 1957.
She sank her fleetmate Oberon in fog off the Danish coast in 1930.
From left to right: Svea Line's Heimdall, Finland Line's Oihonna
and Bore Line's Bore I.
The Heimdall (1,598 grt, 242 ft. long) was built in 1915 for Svea Line.
She was thoroughly rebuilt when sold to Silja Line in 1957.
Renamed Silja and then Coccolita in 1967 she sailed until 1970, when sold for scrap.
The Oihonna (1,072 grt, 210 ft. long) was built in 1898 and sailed until 1960 for Finland Line.
The Bore I (820 grt, 191 ft. long) was built in 1898 as the Bore.
During her chequered career she sank a number of times but was always saved and rebuilt.
She carried the name Bore I from 1927 until being scrapped in 1961.
The Wellamo (1,944 grt, 262 ft. long) was built in 1927.
She was disposed of in 1967 and enjoyed two more years in Scandinavian waters before being scrapped.
The Ilmatar (2,348 grt, 283 ft. long) was built in 1929, but ceded to the USSR in 1945 as war reparations.
She was renamed Emba and still around in the late 1960s.
The Mira (820 grt) was built in 1898 and broken up in 1955.
The Capella (1,102 grt) was built in 1888 and another of the many Finland Line vessels transferred to the USSR as
war reparations.
(All images courtesy of The Mariners' Museum, Newport News. Read more on this page.)
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