The summer expedition of the Finnjet Historical Society ry will take place at the Hietalahti yard in Helsinki!
The yard will be rather silent at that time, but the halls will echo with the expert voices of the general manager of STX Europe Lifecycle Services Mr Vesa Marttinen and the first chief e...
General Assembly on the 30th of May in 2009
Founding Day
While rainy clouds gathered in Travemünde, the sky was dim over München and the sun was up high and proud over southern Finland, the members of FHS held their first ever general assembly. This took place online in order to give all of the...
We have them!
Today on the 29th of April, our founding member, Mr Haapanen has brought the society a great big hello from Silja Line. It comes from their Finnjet archive.
20 binders, 2 full boxes of papers and five video tapes are now waiting for our scanners and film editing machines. We'll sho...
On January the 10th, the founders met at Katajanokka, Helsinki, Finland. The first meeting took place after two months of preliminary discussions and planning. It was a small meeting, but it had the approval of Finnlines Oyj themselves. They own the name "Finnjet". It is not only the name of the ship, but is also a trademark and hence carries a certain value.
The fate of the telegraphs - developing story
GTS FINNJET had four sets of engine telegraphs. One on the bridge, two on both sides of the bridge wings and a split set in the engine control room.
The first telegraphs were installed in 1976 at the Wärtsilä Hietalahti yard in Helsinki. They served...