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M/S Olympia
M/S Olympia (later M/S Pride of Bilbao) is a car and passenger ferry built in 1986.
The ship was ordered by Rederi Ab Slite , a part of Viking Line. It was built by the Wärtsilä Shipyard in Turku. On 29 April, 1986, Olympia started trafficking the Stockholm - Helsinki route. In 1993 Rederi Ab Slite was in economical trouble and was forced to go bankruptcy.
Olympia was in 1993 sold to Irish Continental Group and chartered to P&O European Ferries who renamed her to Pride of Bilbao and put her on the routes Portsmouth - Bilbao and Portsmouth - Cherbourg.
M/S Mariella is Pride of Bilbao's sister ship.
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