10,311 grt; 1,715 dwt; 509 passengers
Operator: Oy Finnlines Ltd (owner: Enso-Gutzeit Oy), Helsinki, Finland
Built: 1967 by Oy Wärtsilä Ab, Helsinki, Finland. Yard no 383
Propulsion: twin-screw with 4 x nine-cylinder, four-stroke Wärtsilä-Sulzer 9ZH40/48 of 16,000 bhp (total) at 430 rpm. Speed: 22 knots
Built for Finska Ångfartygs Ab (Finland Steamship Co Ltd), Helsinki as ro-ro ferry FINLANDIA
1975-sold to Enso-Gutzeit Oy, Helsinki (name unchanged)
1978-converted to cruise ship by Wärtsilä’s Turku shipyard and renamed FINNSTAR (as photo)
1981-sold to Loke Shipping Co Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas, renamed INNSTAR
1982-sold to J. Lauritzen A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark, renamed PEARL OF SCANDINAVIA (Loke Shipping , Nassau, Bahamas as managers)
1987-sold to Ocean Cruise Lines Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas
1988-renamed OCEAN PEARL
1990-sold to Croisières Paquet, Nassau, Bahamas
1992-registered to Sodimarit SA, Nassau, Bahamas
1995-sold to Costa Crociere SpA, Genoa, Italy (registered to Prestige Cruises N.V., Nassau, Bahamas). Renamed COSTA PLAYA
1998-sold to Mega Wave International Ltd, Hong Kong, renamed ORIENTAL PEARL (Bahamas flag)
1998-sold back to Costa Crociere SpA, renamed JOY WAVE (Bahamas flag)
2000 sold to Eurasia International (China) Ltd Partnership, Hong Kong. (registered to Pleasure Road Profits Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas), renamed GOLDEN PRINCESS
2009-sold to breakers in China
Photographed while alongside Tilbury Cruise Terminal/Landing Stage, June 1979.