Estonia Ship

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Estonia ship. Originally built at the start of the 80s the vessel came under the ownership of her last operators the estonia shipping company in the early 1990s. At about 1 00 in the morning the ship lost its bow visor and water flooded the car deck. Final report on the mv estonia disaster of 28 september 1994. The ship was on its scheduled route from tallinn to stockholm.
Most passengers on board the ship were trapped inside after it capsized but 97 who. As contrary to otherwise held beliefs the ms estonia was a ship with almost 15 years of successful ferrying service for four different owners and operators. The ship seen at the estonian sinking site has been chartered to a tv crew. The vessel was sailing from estonia to sweden on 28 september 1994 when it sank in the baltic sea off finland.
It is the second deadliest peacetime sinking of a european ship after the rms titanic and the deadliest peacetime shipwreck to have occurred in. M s estonia sank in an autumn storm on september 28 1994 south of the island of utö. The makers of the discovery networks documentary estonia. Pursuant to an agreement concluded between estonia finland and sweden a joint accident investigation commission for the investigation of the capsizing of the passenger vessel mv estonia on 28 september 1994 was set up on 29 september 1994 in accordance with a decision taken by the prime.
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