:) You're welcome. An additional information is that they actually thought of removing these symbols when the ship, at a time named Wellamo was being thoroughly renovated and given her present day name in Bremen Germany, spring 1992. But the stars were left as they were, probably because of the fact that she was the last of hundreds of vessels having these stars ever since late 19th century.

EFFOA, naturally had other traffic besides of Silja Line, actually being established as a low-budget ferry-company 1957 as an addition to traditional steamship and cargo motorship traffic between Finland and European countries. In the end of 1980's other company, Finnlines took over the cargo-functions and passenger-traffic, other than Silja Line had merely ceased already in the 1970's.

Even Festival's sistership, swedish-owned Svea 1985-1992 (IMO:8306486) had Johnson Line's logo in the front after being renamed Silja Karneval 1992. Anyways, she was being sold to Color Line in 1994 because of over-capacity in the market, being named "the other Festival", Color Festival (At first Silja Festival was to be sold, but Silja Karneval had swedish onboard-staff and was therefor easier for Norwegians to get familiar with already before the delivery in March 1993. Silja Festival changed route very often those years and seemingly wasn't in good enough shape for Norwegian buyer).

Last year, mainly because of same reasons, profitability, Color Festival joined the Corsica and Sardinia Ferries fleet as Mega Smeralda.