M/V Baltic Enterprise (also known as M/V Lipa) is a Ro-Ro Container ship built in Rauma Repola shipyard-Finland, delivered in March 1973 for the United Baltic Corporation. Her Dimensions are 137,50 x 22,36 x 6,64 m, dwt: 5710. She was a new type of Ro-Ro vessel, with passenger cabins, the crew had dedicated accommodation which was built to Scandinavian standards which was luxurious compared to British built ships of the time (she even had a sauna). She had two Stork Werkspoor engines of 7700 KW
On her first service she did a run between Hull and either Helsinki-Kotka or Turku-Mäntyluoto on a Ro-Ro service, usually returning with paper products. In 1978, she also operated out of Felixstowe
Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea, with a population of 260,700 (mid-2017 est.). Hull lies east of Leeds, east southeast of York and northeast of Sheffield.
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of 650,058. The city's urban area has a population of 1,268,296, making it by far the most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research. Helsinki is located 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Tallinn, Estonia, 400 km (250 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 390 km (240 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has close historical ties with these three cities.
Kotka is a city and municipality of Finland.
In 1982, she was on service between Rotterdam and Hull.
Rotterdam is the second-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands. It is located in the province of South Holland, at the mouth of the Nieuwe Maas channel leading into the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte, after which people settled around it for safety. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland.
In 1983 she was sold to Losinjska Plovidba, Brodarstvo from Rijeka, Croatia, the name was changed to M/V Lipa.
Fiume is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia. It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,624 inhabitants. Historically, because of its strategic position and its excellent deep-water port, the city was fiercely contested, especially among Italy, Hungary, and Croatia, changing hands and demographics many times over centuries. According to the 2011 census data, the overwhelming majority of its citizens (94.52%) are Croats, along with small numbers of Bosniaks, Italians and Serbs. The city has a strong sense of identity and the autochthonous inhabitants of Rijeka are referred to as Fiumans.
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southeast, sharing a maritime border with Italy. Its capital, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with twenty counties. Croatia has an area of 56,594 square kilometres and a population of 4.28 million, most of whom are Roman Catholics.
From 1997- feb 1999 operated by Valfracht (Malta) on the line Tilbury-Antwerp-Amsterdam-Tunis-Valletta-Tripoli-Lattakia-Beirut-Limassol-Mersin.
From 1.3.1999 on the container line between Rijeka-Ploče-Malta-Gioia Tauro, then after added calls to Bar and Koper.
Her last service was between Mrseille and Algier
In summer 2008 she was sold as scrapped metal. Alang, India, was her last port.
Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. In the past three decades, its beaches have become a major worldwide centre for ship breaking. The longest ship ever built, Seawise Giant, was sailed to and beached here for demolition in December 2009.
India, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area and with more than 1.3 billion people, it is the second most populous country as well as the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
In Croatia she was considered one of the most legendary ships.
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