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2. MV Viking Sky - Wikipedia

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   Viking Sky. Viking Sky departing Tallinn, Estonia on July 24, 2017. MV Viking Sky is a cruise ship that was launched in 2016 and entered service in 2017. She is operated by Viking Ocean Cruises. On 23 March 2019, she suffered an engine failure off the coast of Norway. A partial evacuation by helicopters took place.

3. MV Viking Star - Wikipedia

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   Crew. 602. MV Viking Star is the lead ship of the Viking Star class [citation needed] of cruise ships, and the first such ship operated by Viking Ocean Cruises, a division of Viking Cruises. She entered service in April 2015. Two Viking Star -class sister ships, Viking Sea and Viking Sky, joined her in the Viking Ocean Cruises fleet in 2016.

4. Viking (cruise line) - Wikipedia

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   The company was established by Torstein Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia as Viking River Cruises in 1997. Hagen had become involved in cruising as a McKinsey and Company consultant who helped the Holland America Line survive the 1973 oil crisis, then was CEO of the Royal Viking Line from 1980 to 1984, made money in the Russian private equity markets, then bought a controlling stake in a Dutch ...

5. Longship - Wikipedia

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   The average speed of Viking ships varied from ship to ship, but lay in the range of 5–10 knots (9–19 km/h) and the maximum speed of a longship under favorable conditions was around 15 knots (28 km/h). [3] The Viking Ship museum in Oslo houses the remains of three such ships, the Oseberg, the Gokstad and the Tune ship. [4]

6. Viking ship - Wikipedia

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   This ship is of the snekkja longship type. Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, used in Scandinavia from the Viking Age throughout the Middle Ages. The boat-types were quite varied, depending on what the ship was intended for, [ 1] but they were generally characterized as being slender and flexible boats, with symmetrical ends ...

7. MV Viking Sea (2015) - Wikipedia

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   MV. Viking Sea. (2015) Viking Sea in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia on May 19, 2017. MV Viking Sea is a cruise ship built by Italian shipbuilders Fincantieri for Viking Ocean Cruises. It is the second ship to grace the name Viking Sea, the first being Viking Sky which was originally assigned this name. Viking Sea sailed from Venice to New Capital ...

8. Knarr - Wikipedia

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   Knarr. A knarr ( / nɔːr /) is a type of Norse merchant ship used by the Vikings for long sea voyages and during the Viking expansion. The knarr was a cargo ship; the hull was wider, deeper and shorter than a longship, and could take more cargo and be operated by smaller crews. It was primarily used to transport trading goods like walrus ivory ...

9. Royal Viking Line - Wikipedia

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   Royal Viking Star was stretched in 1981, followed by Royal Viking Sky in 1982 and Royal Viking Sea in 1983. The lengthening of the ships improved both their profiles and their economics. In 1984, Torstein Hagen arranged a $240 million management buyout of the company, with the assistance of venture capital firm JH Whitney [ citation needed ] .