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Mellangård
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The steamship ÅLAND has docked at one of the 27 piers on its voyage from Turku to Mariehamn.
Ångbåts Ab Åland was a Finnish shipping company that operated archipelago services.
Ångbåts Ab Åland was founded in 1875 in Turku by Isak Wilhelm Jansson, a coaster captain from Korpo, to provide service between Turku and Mariehamn. The company’s last vessel, the m/s Winga (built in Sweden in 1877 as a steamship), was sold in 1975. By then, operations had ceased a few years earlier, even though the shipping company had not formally been dissolved. The majority of the shares later passed to the Nystad Maritime History Association, which holds its annual general meeting in Nystad. [1]
Ångbåts Ab Åland was a major shipping company in the Turku and Åland archipelagos and, over the years, operated 13 vessels, nine of which were steamboats in service, the best known of them being the Åland II. On the voyages between Turku and Mariehamn (which took just over 16 hours at their longest), the ships called at numerous docks, and the company’s vessels transported passengers, cargo, and sometimes even livestock. The shipping company unsuccessfully experimented with service to Stockholm and Helsinki/Vyborg. Competition from car ferries and automobiles caused passenger numbers to decline from 11,398 in 1958 to 3,293 in 19??
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Ångbåts Ab Åland was a Finnish shipping company that operated archipelago services.
Ångbåts Ab Åland was founded in 1875 in Turku by Isak Wilhelm Jansson, a coaster captain from Korpo, to provide service between Turku and Mariehamn. The company’s last vessel, the m/s Winga (built in Sweden in 1877 as a steamship), was sold in 1975. By then, operations had ceased a few years earlier, even though the shipping company had not formally been dissolved. The majority of the shares later passed to the Nystad Maritime History Association, which holds its annual general meeting in Nystad. [1]
Ångbåts Ab Åland was a major shipping company in the Turku and Åland archipelagos and, over the years, operated 13 vessels, nine of which were steamboats in service, the best known of them being the Åland II. On the voyages between Turku and Mariehamn (which took just over 16 hours at their longest), the ships called at numerous docks, and the company’s vessels transported passengers, cargo, and sometimes even livestock. The shipping company unsuccessfully experimented with service to Stockholm and Helsinki/Vyborg. Competition from car ferries and automobiles caused passenger numbers to decline from 11,398 in 1958 to 3,293 in 19??
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