Svea

The car ferry Svea was purchased by Styrsöbolaget in November 2017. During the spring of 2018, the ferry was adapted for Styrsöbolaget's freight traffic.The name of the ferry has been changed to Svea, which is a name with origins in the archipelago traffic.The sister boats Svea and Göta served the southern and northern archipelago from 1895. Göta was taken out of service by Styrsöbolaget in 1951, while Svea went to Öckeröbolaget until 1967. Both ships are scrapped.Nowadays, the successors can be found in Styrsöbolaget's freight traffic from Fiskebäck to the southern archipelago.Svea previously belonged to Malmqvist Sjö- & Allservice under the name Lagnö and during the years 2007-2012 operated the route Norra Lagnö-Tynningö in the Stockholm archipelago.From delivery in 1957 to 2006, the ferry was a Finnish road ferry and was originally named Korpo.It originally served the Nagu-Korpo route in the archipelago southwest of Turku.In 1999 the ferry was named Inimo which was retained until 2006 when it was sold to Sweden and named Lagnö.The ferry was built in 1957 at Ahlström's shipyard in Varkaus in Finland, which is located on the Saimen lake system.From the sea system it was transported by rail to the Gulf of Finland where it was completed.The normal connection to the sea via the Saimaa canal was closed after being destroyed during the war.The ferry underwent an extensive rebuild in 1969 when it was extended by 15 m and modernized.Some rebuilding was done when it came to Sweden in 2006.Lagnö is 43.62 m long and 8.10 m wide and the hull, which is built of steel, is ice-reinforced.The ferry is powered by two Volvo Penta D16MH with a total of 1200 hp (882kW) each driving its own Aquamaster propeller.The speed is 8 knots.