M/S Silja Serenade

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Image:Silja Serenade.jpg M/S Silja Serenade is a cruiseferry built in 1990 and owned by the Finnish shipping company Silja Line. She is a sister ship of M/S Silja Symphony. Her original port of registry was Helsinki, Finland.

After her delivery on November 15, 1990 she was put on the route Helsinki - Stockholm. In 1992 she was reflagged to the Alandian shipregistry, her homeport altered to Mariehamn. When Silja Line acquired Silja Europa in 1993 Serenade was moved to the Turku - Mariehamn - Stockholm route. Serenade did not fit really well on this route so in 1995 the company decided to have Europa and Serenade to switch routes. After that Serenade was back on her original route, together with her sister ship Silja Symphony. In order to keep tax free sales on the Stockholm - Helsinki ships when the EU changed its tax free legislation, a stop at Mariehamn was added to the route in 1999. In early 2006, just prior to the sale of Silja Line to Tallink, Serenade and her sister had their interiors extensively rebuilt at Luonnonmaan telakka, Naantali.