MS Bore
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MS Bore is a combination museum and hotel ship docked permanently in Turku, Finland. She was originally built in 1960 by Oskarshamn shipyard, Oskarshamn, Sweden as the car/passenger ferry SS Bore for Steamship Company Bore, Finland, then the last commercial steam ship built in Scandinavia and the first ferry on the route between Finland and Sweden where cars could drive aboard. She was later known as SS Borea, before being rebuilt as a cruise ship in 1988. 1988 to 2010 she was owned by the Finnish shipping company Kristina Cruises and known as MS Kristina Regina until she was retired because she did not comply with new safety regulations.
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Bore in her restored original livery in Turku, Finland | |
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Builder | Oskarshamn Shipyard |
Yard number | 353 |
Launched | 19 March 1959 |
Completed | 1960 |
In service | 1960 |
Out of service | 2010 |
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Status | Permanent hotel/restaurant/museum ship at Forum Marinum |
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Length | 99.83 m (327.5 ft)[2] |
Beam | 15.25 m (50.0 ft)[2] |
Draught | 5.26 m (17.3 ft) |
Propulsion | As built it had four Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers powering two Oskarshamns Varv/Gotaverken four-cylinder steam engines which drove twin screws. The original power plant was replaced in 1988 by two Wartsila 12V22 diesel engines of 2330 HP (1740 kW) each.[2][3] |
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