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john sefton
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Borea 1960

Post by john sefton » Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:23 pm

BOREA. Passenger Built 1960 as BORE by AB Oskarshamns Varv, Okarshamn 3878Gt. 1817Nt. 884dwt. L99.85m. B15.3m. Dr5.25m. Two Wartsila Vee Oil 4SA engines each 12-cyliners 200x240. Converted to a Passenger/Ro-Ro cargo ferry 1988. Owned by Jakob Line AS in 1987. Renamed KRISTINA REGINA. Present owners Christina Cruises Ltd. Kotka, Finland. She participated in D-Day Commem Fleet review at Spithead on 5th June 1944.
- Finland 1987. 1 rn70. SG1116 (WP Nov 1996)

aukepalmhof
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Re: Borea 1960

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:54 pm

The stamp was issued in commemoration of the Finish Tourist Association’s 100th anniversary, and the stamp was designed by students from the industrial art school. They chose to use a design of an older type Finnish passenger ship when she still had two real funnels. Both funnels are shown on the stamp, but on the BOREA the forward funnel was a dummy. Only one two funnel ship matches the profile of the passenger ship shown on the stamp, and that is the BOREA.

Wikipedia has more info on the ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Bore
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