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unusual facts about MS ''Svea''



Birger Nerman

In 1925 the Swedish Armed Forces published his The Rise of the Swedish Realm (Det svenska rikets uppkomst) in which Nerman argued that the formation of the Swedish state had been completed by the 8th century, that it was the direct continuation of the "powerful Svea kingdom" mentioned by Tacitus, and that Sweden with its history of two millennia held senior rank among the existing nations of Europe.

Carmen Cusack

After completing university, she accepted a job on the MS Queen Elizabeth 2, which changed the course of her career.

Europa Universalis: Crown of the North

Europa Universalis: Crown of the North (original title: Svea Rike III) is a real-time grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Entertainment and published by Levande Böcker.

F 8 Barkarby

F 8 Barkarby, Kungliga Svea Flygflottilj, Royal Svealand Air Force Wing, or simply "F 8", is a former Swedish Air Force wing with the main base located in Barkarby just north of the capital Stockholm on the east coast.

Gerhart Eisler

When his last legal appeal had failed he jumped bail and secretly boarded the Polish liner MS Batory bound for London in May 1949.

Great Officers of the Realm

The title meant no particular assignment until 1614, when Lord High Steward Magnus Brahe was put in charge of the newly established Svea Court of Appeal, the highest court of Sweden at the time.

GTS Finnjet

Unfortunately the plan proved to be too costly and was abandoned; the funds that had been raised for this reconstruction went to the rebuilding of MS Svea and MS Wellamo into Silja Karneval and Silja Festival.

Karl Kilbom

In 1907, Kilbom was conscripted to do military service in the Swedish Navy and he soon found himself on the navy base of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, and stationed on the battleship Svea.

Kosei Maru

MS Kosei Maru, a ferry built in 1991 and currently in service with Seatruck Ferries.

MS Mariella

In 1989, ahead of the delivery of the new MS Cinderella, SF Line considered moving Mariella on to a proposed express Helsinki–Norrköping service aimed at passengers travelling with their cars.

MS Moby Otta

Later reports indicate she will replace her sister MS Moby Drea on the LivornoOlbia route, and the Moby Drea will be transferred to the Genoa–Porto Torres route instead.

On September 6, 2006 DFDS Seaways reported that it had purchased MS Fjord Norway from the Norway-based Fjord Line, and would be continuing the ship's traffic from the UK to Norway.

MS Nordlys

MS Nordlys (1993) is a 11,204 ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 13 August 1993, at Volkswerft GmbH, Stralsund, Germany.

MS Princess Seaways

In 2005 she stopped operating for P&O and was subsequently sold to SNAV in Italy and renamed MS SNAV Sardegna.

In 2005 she stopped operating for P&O and was subsequently sold to SNAV in Italy and renamed MS SNAV Lazio.

MS Silja Festival

Following the delivery of the highly successful MS Finlandia and MS Silvia Regina for Silja Line's Helsinki–Stockholm service, Johnson Line and Effoa decided to order a pair of ships based on a similar design for the Turku–Stockholm service.

MS Stena Saga

The passengers and crew were evacuated, and to ensure passenger safety they were taken to Turku onboard MS Svea instead of sailing to Helsinki as planned.

MV Atlantic Vision

On May of the same year Superfast IX, alongside her sister MS Superfast X, started a new service for Superfast, connecting Rosyth (Scotland) to Zeebrugge (Belgium).

MV Bluenose

In 1982, MV Bluenose was replaced by a newer vessel, the 1973-built MS Stena Jutlandica, which was renamed MV Bluenose before entering service.

Olof von Dalin

This period of exile, lasting until 1761, Dalin spent in the preparation of the third volume of his great historical work, the Svea Rikes historia, that related events up to the death of King Charles IX of Sweden in 1611.


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