I have some very happy news from the STX Europe shipyard in Helsinki. It is the shipyard where GTS FINNJET was built and finished during 1975-1977.

Finnjet Historical Society ry is permitted to show to the public the plans of GTS FINNJET. We do not own the rights, but we may show you just how a le...

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Christmas in June

After the archive donation of Silja Line, I wondered if anything could match their big present.

I spent a few hours today at STX Europe in Helsinki. I met there Mrs. Vatanen with whom I had a nice talk about Finnjet and drank a fine cup of coffee. I filled my briefcase with som...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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