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Hi Naucler.
Thanks for your response. Your advice on the ship in the background as Isabelle is much appreciated.
We were amazed at the procession of ships heading out of Stockholm around this time (late afternoon) on 24 July 2013. We also followed Queen Victoria on this trip too.
The photo was taken fromSilja Symphony - on which we were enroute from Stockholm to Helsinki. A very pleasant journey.
Are you able to clarify the name(s) of the two car ferries which both seem to carry the name Fragancia, please as I see from your profile that you 'sail under the Swedish flag'? (Jester)
Regards
Geoff (YM)
Thanks for your response. Your advice on the ship in the background as Isabelle is much appreciated.
We were amazed at the procession of ships heading out of Stockholm around this time (late afternoon) on 24 July 2013. We also followed Queen Victoria on this trip too.
The photo was taken fromSilja Symphony - on which we were enroute from Stockholm to Helsinki. A very pleasant journey.
Are you able to clarify the name(s) of the two car ferries which both seem to carry the name Fragancia, please as I see from your profile that you 'sail under the Swedish flag'? (Jester)
Regards
Geoff (YM)
Normally a Swedish merchant ship can only have one official name and there must not be two merchant ships under Swedish flag with the same name - and I have looked around and there is only one State Administration car ferry called FRAGANCIA. So there can not be any further and second Swedish flagged ship with this name - that must be a confusing mistake somewhere.
A very good observation that most ships in the Stockholm region depart and arrive at almost the same time - it is the so called Scandinavian Cruise ferry phonmenon: depart at 16:30-18:00: passengers look around their ship, embark their cabins, take a stroll into the tax-free shop and then enjoying a great dinner - then later on, enjoying some Entertainment, Casino or disco, and go to bed (maybe not always your own bed - some of these ships are really ships for Cupido and Amor...) - to wake up in a new port for maybe a sightseeing or shopping tour, some may stay some days at hotel in this city, or just go back with the evening ship home once with the same on board theme and rituals - this is what keep these shipping companies going around. To have a departure at for example after lunch time or at midnight wouldn't work for the passengers and the market would never accept it - so the ships to Helsinki, Turku, Petersburg, Tallinn and Riga - well, they depart almost all at the same time in late afternoon at dinner time. It has been so regularly at least since 1972 when the first year-around-working Silja Line Stockholm-Helsinki "capital city" ships AALLOTAR and SVEA REGINA, built in Nantes, France, entered service in 1972 - until 1999 is was always departure 18:00 from each port, arrival at 09:00 at their destination. Nowadays, since the complicated tax-free ban from 1st July 1999 within the Union, it is a bit more problematic - to have the possibility to sell tax-free on board all ferries (except the Riga ferry which runs to far from Åland to call Mariehamn or Långnäs, because the semi-independant Åland Islands are not concerned by the EU tax free zone) must visit Åland islands, port of Mariehamn or Långnäs on the way to their destinations. So on the two State Administration car ferries as having two FRANGANCIA - I can't help - maybe there is some confusing topsy-turvy error somewhere on the many photos...?
I can also tell you that the directors of for example Carnival Group and RCCI made many journeys on these Cruise ferries in the 1980's and 1990's in cognito to observe and learn - and many of their Cruise ship orders by so ended up at the Finnish shipyards which have built most of present Baltic Sea Cruise ferries.
A very good observation that most ships in the Stockholm region depart and arrive at almost the same time - it is the so called Scandinavian Cruise ferry phonmenon: depart at 16:30-18:00: passengers look around their ship, embark their cabins, take a stroll into the tax-free shop and then enjoying a great dinner - then later on, enjoying some Entertainment, Casino or disco, and go to bed (maybe not always your own bed - some of these ships are really ships for Cupido and Amor...) - to wake up in a new port for maybe a sightseeing or shopping tour, some may stay some days at hotel in this city, or just go back with the evening ship home once with the same on board theme and rituals - this is what keep these shipping companies going around. To have a departure at for example after lunch time or at midnight wouldn't work for the passengers and the market would never accept it - so the ships to Helsinki, Turku, Petersburg, Tallinn and Riga - well, they depart almost all at the same time in late afternoon at dinner time. It has been so regularly at least since 1972 when the first year-around-working Silja Line Stockholm-Helsinki "capital city" ships AALLOTAR and SVEA REGINA, built in Nantes, France, entered service in 1972 - until 1999 is was always departure 18:00 from each port, arrival at 09:00 at their destination. Nowadays, since the complicated tax-free ban from 1st July 1999 within the Union, it is a bit more problematic - to have the possibility to sell tax-free on board all ferries (except the Riga ferry which runs to far from Åland to call Mariehamn or Långnäs, because the semi-independant Åland Islands are not concerned by the EU tax free zone) must visit Åland islands, port of Mariehamn or Långnäs on the way to their destinations. So on the two State Administration car ferries as having two FRANGANCIA - I can't help - maybe there is some confusing topsy-turvy error somewhere on the many photos...?
I can also tell you that the directors of for example Carnival Group and RCCI made many journeys on these Cruise ferries in the 1980's and 1990's in cognito to observe and learn - and many of their Cruise ship orders by so ended up at the Finnish shipyards which have built most of present Baltic Sea Cruise ferries.
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