High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! MS Estonia, previously MS Viking Sally (1980 1990), MS Silja Star ( 1991), and MS Wasa King ( 1993), was a cruiseferry built in 1980 at the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. The ship's sinking in the Baltic Sea on 28 September 1994, claimed 852 lives and was one of the deadliest maritime disasters of the late 20th century. The ship was originally ordered from Meyer Werft by a Norwegian shipping company led by Parley Augustsen with intended traffic between Norway and Germany. At the last moment, the company withdrew their order and the contract went to Rederi Ab Sally, one of the partners in the Viking Line consortium (SF Line, another partner in Viking Line, had also been interested in the ship).