Smyril Line
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Smyril Line is a Faroese shipping company, linking the Faroe Islands and Iceland with Denmark, Norway, and the United Kingdom (Shetland and the mainland of Scotland).
Since 1983 the company has operated a regular international passenger, car and freight service using a large, modern, multi-purpose ferry - the Norröna. The original vessel was a Swedish-built ferry formerly named Gustav Wasa (built in 1973). This was replaced by a purpose-built brand new ferry (also named Norröna) in 2003. The new Norröna was built in Lübeck, Germany.
The weekly service serves the following ports:
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland
Bergen, Norway
Hanstholm, Denmark
Scrabster, Scotland (from June 2007)
Smyril is the Faroese word for Merlin.
[edit] See also
- Smyril - the largest vessel of the Faroese domestic ferry company Strandfaraskip Landsins
- Strandfaraskip Landsins
- Transport in the Faroe Islands
