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VICTORIA 1

Built by Aker Finnyards in 2004

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IMO: 9281281
MMSI: 276519000
Call Sign: ESRP

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

40,975GT

Deadweight

4,930DWT

Length Overall

192.9m

Beam

29m

Draught

5.9m

Year Built

2004

Overview

About This Vessel

MS Victoria I is a cruiseferry owned by AS Tallink Grupp. It was chartered by the UK Government to provide temporary accommodation to those fleeing the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The vessel was docked in the Port of Leith, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The ship, which was chartered until July 2023, had been providing people with accommodation until they secure somewhere to stay longer term. It took in its first Ukrainian residents in July 2022. On 1 August 2023 Victoria I arrived back in her home port at Tallinn and currently the vessel on service between Tallinn and Helsinki starting from 12 October. The Victoria I was formerly on a route connecting Stockholm, Sweden to Tallinn, Estonia via Mariehamn, Finland. She was built in 2004 by Aker Finnyards, Rauma. Although the ship's official name is Victoria I, she is often referred to as Victoria, without the number. This is also the name displayed on top of her superstructure, whereas the name is written in full form on the hull. Between 18 and 20 November 2005, the Victoria I made two one-day cruises from Helsinki to Tallinn, the latter of which was a re-election campaign cruise for the Finnish president Tarja Halonen. The use of an Estonian-flagged ship by the president provoked protests from the Finnish Seamen's Union.

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · just now

Track · last 14 d

Position

59.450°N · 24.779°E

Speed

2.1 kn

Course

43°

Status

Under way using engine

Destination EEVAN<>FIHELETA Sep 1, 01:00 PMLaden · 6.1 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Tallinn — 15 d across 42 stays.

1
Tallinn15 d · 42×
2
Helsinki4 d · 35×
3
Visby3 d · 7×
4
Saaremaa sadam12 h
5
Kalana2 h

Derived from the AIS track — runs of near-zero speed (anchored, moored or drifting) snapped to the nearest port. Builds up as we observe the vessel.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreMedium

71/ 100

Safety58

Compliance95

Environment58

Carbon intensity · 2025B

21,266t CO₂

AER (CO₂/capacity·nm): 14
Fuel burned: 6,640 t
Technical: EIV (3.31 gCO₂/t·nm)

Verified reported figure. Band is peer-relative, not official IMO CII.

Recent port calls

Tallinn
Aug 31, 2026
In port
Helsinki
Aug 31, 2026
0.1 d
Tallinn
Aug 30, 2026
0.6 d
Helsinki
Aug 30, 2026
0.1 d
Tallinn
Aug 29, 2026
0.6 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Operational Status

Activity

Under wayFix within the last day

Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.

Speed

8.7 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

22 yr

Read from the single most-recent AIS broadcast we hold for this hull — we keep no position history, so this is a point-in-time posture, not a dwell inference. Derived in-house from our own AIS feed; weight it by the broadcast age above.

Port calls

41 recent · AIS-detected

Arrivals, time in port and the load/discharge inferred from the draught change — detected from AIS track history. An open call means the vessel is still in port (no departure observed yet).

Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.2→6.0 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.0→6.0 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.0→6.0 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.0→6.0 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 6.0→6.0 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.0→6.0 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.3→6.0 m
Visby
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Visby
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 12 h in port· draught 6.3→6.3 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.3→6.3 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.3→6.3 m
Visby
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 12 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Saaremaa sadam
no cargo change
→ · 13 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Visby
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 6.3→6.3 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 11 h in port· draught 6.3→6.3 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.3→6.3 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.3→6.3 m
Visby
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 6.0→6.0 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 12 h in port· draught 6.0→6.0 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.3→6.0 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.2→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.3→6.0 m
Visby
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Visby
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 12 h in port· draught 6.3→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.4→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Visby
no cargo change
→ · 11 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 12 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 11 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Tallinn
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m

Method: each call is a run of fixes inside a port’s geofence confirmed by a stop (or an AIS gap); load/discharge is the sign of the draught delta over the call. Indicative — arrivals before our AIS history began read from the first observation.

Where it waits

3 ports · 21.2 days total

Time-in-port summed by port from the AIS-detected port-call history — the ports this vessel has spent the most time at, longest first.

Tallinn· Estonia
17.2 days
32 calls · 13 h avg
Visby· Sweden
3.4 days
8 calls · 10 h avg
Saaremaa sadam· Estonia
13 h
1 call · 13 h avg

Based on 41 completed calls observed since — open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

68/100

Elevated riskLow confidence20% component coverage

Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.

PSC detentionsno data

Sanctions exposureno data

AIS-gap & behaviourno data

Hull age68

Flag registerno data

A coverage-weighted blend of the single component we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.

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