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May 1, 2004 · A fter midnight, in the first hours of September 28, 1994, the ferry Estonia foundered in the waves of a Baltic storm. The ship was the pride of the newly independent Estonian nation, recently ...
Jul 9, 2021 · Sweden and Estonia on Friday opened a fresh investigation into the 1994 sinking of the ferry MS Estonia in the Baltic Sea and the loss of 852 lives, accident authorities said.
Mar 21, 2021 · The deadliest peacetime shipping disaster, not only in the Baltic but in all European waters, took place over 26 years ago now, on September 28 1994, when the Estonian-registered MS Estonia ferry sank en route to Stockholm carrying 989 people (803 of them passengers). While the official version was established a few years after the incident, questions continue to be asked - a phenomenon which ...
Jul 25, 2023 · The MS Estonia ferry sank in rough seas in the small hours of September 28, 1994, with the loss of 852 lives. The bow vehicle ramp is a critical component in understanding exactly what happened during the disaster.
Dec 27, 2022 · The Swedish defence forces transported more military equipment on the MS Estonia – the cruise ferry that sank en route from Tallinn to Stockholm on 28 September 1994 with the loss of 852 lives – than has been made public to date, Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper reported, according to BNS. The information emerged when the Swedish accident ...
MS Finlandia ferry is a Ro-Ro passenger vessel owned and operated by the Finnish company ECKERO LINE. The ship has a max capacity of 2080 passengers and 665 cars (or 115 trucks/trailers). The vessel was launched in 2001 and currently operates on the Finland-Estonia Island ferry route Helsinki - Tallinn (crossing time 2 hours 15 min).
Oct 23, 2020 · A preliminary examination report has said that newly discovered damage was too small to have sunk the MS Estonia, which killed 852 people in 1994. The 1994 MS Estonia ferry disaster was not caused ...
