During my maritime studies I used to be cadet there onboard back in 2002. Persons shown on this clip at bridge are Captain Carl Sviberg (1930-2014) and Chief Officer Seppo Ylitalo. Carl Sviberg was highly liked by his crew and extremely skilled captain to maneuver the vessel. He was allready retired legend when I was a cadet. Finnjet was the fastest conventional passengership in the world with top speed of 33,5 knots. Powered with Pratt & Whitney gas turbines similars as on Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 727 aircrafts, it was the first civil vessel with gas turbines and fourth in the world. It was also the first civil vessel in Finland and probably one of the first ones in globally with ECDIS navigation in the middle of the nineties. The christmas cruise mentioned on video back in December 2002 was my final trip as cadet. I visited as a passenger once more shortly before vessel left Finland last time.
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
An interesting read! Thank you! 😀
@IZAQ_4 ай бұрын
This ship is nothing but legendary. When she was launched she was not only the fastest ferry of all time but she was also the biggest. She is also considered to be the first cruise ferry ever built. Her effort in saving the M/S Estonia survivors also can not go without mention. All of this, all of her impressive history and design just for her to be beached at Alang and not even making a profit of it. It is sad I never was able to go with her, and I think most people here could agree that she should have been preserved as a museum of sorts instead of getting scrapped
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
I agree with you! A museum would be awesome
@pistonburner64483 ай бұрын
It could've been the fastest museum in the world!
@janvanrenselaar59984 ай бұрын
I have made several trip on the route Travemunde-Helsinki-Travemunde with the speedy gonzalez of the Baltic Sea. As a lorry driver i loaded a lot fruits and vegetables in Spain,Italoy and South of France for Finland. And from Finland we loaded a lot of garden peat in Eurajoki-Irjanne or Near Helsiki sugar-cubes for Spain. And we had always our weekly rest on that ferry. Nice and friendly crew,good food and the little swimmingpool are the things that stay with me forever.
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
Sounds very nice! 😀
@zoolkhan4 ай бұрын
and the swimming pool had little windows for the lamps, that engine personnel could look through 🙂 i hope you kept the pants on haha
@okaro65953 ай бұрын
It could do the trip Helsinki Travemünde in 22 hours. That meant it could sail every day at the same hour on opposite directions. Fir the comparison if you now take a trip on Finnlines to Travemünde it takes 30 hours. Also the current ships take a third of the passengers - even though they are bigger.
@Finland-SkiTeam39-404 ай бұрын
...GTS Finnjet was first gasturbine-engine cruise ship in the world (build in 1977), also biggest and fastest at that time.
@Velwichia4 ай бұрын
I travelled with Finnjet in 20th March 1978 from Helsinki to Travemunde
@kaukooja7204 ай бұрын
We travelled in september 1978. we almost met 😉
@salonjuna4 ай бұрын
Style, speed, confidence. Nothing else.
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
True! Truly one of a kind!
@VilmaHallikas3 ай бұрын
My younger sister got christened on Finnjet in 1996. We had a family friend who was part of the crew then and we sailed Helsinki-Travemunde-Helsinki many times in the 90's. The crew bar in the bow was nice. Loved that ship, it's a shame she got scrapped :(
@joereima1984 ай бұрын
"due to a strike" In Finland of course.
@jackdoe38894 ай бұрын
Tunnetaan myös Veikon Koneena, Konepäällikkö Veikko Haapasen mukaisesti. Satoja matkoja tullut tehtyä vuosikymmenten aikana. Paljon hyviä muistoja.
@adrianobueno69843 ай бұрын
Sad to see this kind of ending
@Fortuna2723 ай бұрын
Texts are hard to read as they fade away too quickly before I can fully read them. Best practice here is to read them yourself and add twice the on screen time.
@TheShipChannel3 ай бұрын
Will do! Thank you for the feedback!
@PU86983 ай бұрын
KZfaq has a feature to slow down the playback.
@iceman00364 ай бұрын
Jävlar va snabbt den fick mycket visningar👌
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
Ja, är lite förvånad faktiskt 😅
@hanhi4 ай бұрын
My father was a helmsman on Finnjet in the late 70s.
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
Nice!
@domeoriginal4 ай бұрын
June 1991 Helsinki-Travemunde for starting 3 weeks roadtrip in Europe.
@po9024 ай бұрын
Summer 1992 Hki-Traveműnde roadtrip for 1-2 weeks.
@superadio14 ай бұрын
Saw her many times during my job onboard MV ESTRELLA in 1985
@djmoomoomoo3 ай бұрын
I was as a resident dj on Finnjet 2000 - 2004
@TheShipChannel3 ай бұрын
Nice! :)
@helptheoceans4 ай бұрын
She was nice vessel as i work over there in Deck department
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
Nice! I’m currently studying to become an able seaman :)
@laivatietajaYT4 ай бұрын
I got many vid of Finnjet too! So sad she got scrapped
@airjuri3 ай бұрын
I think that i "traveled" with Finnjet couple of times :)
@roimikko4 ай бұрын
I cruised Finnjet from Helsinki to Tallinn
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
Nice!
@SPPhotography894 ай бұрын
me too.
@katjachristina77654 ай бұрын
Me too
@peterschuglitsch5733Ай бұрын
Hi i am Peter ( Austrian ) was in this times Truck Driver for Sped. H.Winnen, Pilkington Glassworks Gladbeck, NRW. We, my Friend norbert and i where sailing 3 times with MS Finnjet to Katajanokka, Helsingfors. The Cabins for Truckers are very smal but ok for two night sleeping. But the entertainment in the the Bar was great, finally the Security put us out at 3 o`clock. Norbert foundt a girl from Goslar for love and her Mother slept in my Cabin. But the best joke was on the trip back. Under the Bridge, one deck down passengers can see in front, with some sciens of computers, about the route and weather. And the Joke of the night was an german tourist, 2 o`clock in the morning, der fragte : kann man das nicht etwas lauter machen. wenn man das auf der brücke verstanden hätte wäre die Finnjet ohne Autopilot for Lachen vom Kurs abgekommen. Best Friends of Europa, Suomi People, Kitos.
@janioutinen91714 ай бұрын
You should`ve put talk instead of text to this video. Great ship tough.
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
I might do that in the future! :)
@454FatJack4 ай бұрын
June 1984 Hki-Travemunde
@nuolis4 ай бұрын
if i had money,i would recreate finnjet as cruise ship
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
Same!
@mysticprophecy53954 ай бұрын
If I had the money I’d rather build a ship in the style of early 1900 ocean steamers
@nuolis4 ай бұрын
@@mysticprophecy5395 titanic?
@mysticprophecy53954 ай бұрын
@@nuolis perhaps but I’d rather go by my original design, of course inspired by titanic but also Aquintania, Empress of Ireland and more
@nuolis4 ай бұрын
@@mysticprophecy5395 i see
@SDU19694 ай бұрын
An amazing ship!
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
I agree!
@FinnJets16 күн бұрын
Chat it’s me
@lum3nk3hto4 ай бұрын
Very short story.
@siljaships10844 ай бұрын
Great video 🙂
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
Thanks mate 😎
@ancca784 ай бұрын
2 y old, 1980, Helsinki - Traveműnde
@user-ko8xd4hg5u4 ай бұрын
Hon var helt unik inte helt utan vibrationer 😅
@TheShipChannel4 ай бұрын
Kan tänka mig det 😅
@mhyotyni4 ай бұрын
Ja, man kunde alltid känna vibrationer på diskodäcket- somliga tyckte att det var en bra sak! 💘😉