Finlandia and Silvia Regina were originally constructed with very 'fat', curving bows to maximise car-carrying capacity, but these made the ship extremely difficult to handle especially during the winter.

As a result, the Finlandia was docked in January 1982 (after just eight months of service) in Wärtsilä's Perno shipyard for reconstruction of her bow to a sleeker form.

[2] During her career for Silja Line the Finlandia enjoyed a special relationship with Mauno Koivisto, who was at the time the Prime Minister and later President of Finland.

[1][3] DFDS took delivery of the Finlandia as agreed in May 1990 and EffJohn (merger of Effoa and Johnson Line born in early 1990) was forced to look for a solution for its ship shortage elsewhere.

[2] In September 2002, while sailing to IJmuiden, a woman fell overboard from one of the upper decks in the early hours of the morning.

On 26 November 2007 while in the port of Bergen, the Queen of Scandinavia broke her forward moorings and collided with the expedition ship H.U.

[4] DFDS Seaways closed down the loss-making United Kingdom—Norway service with the Queen of Scandinavia making her final sailing on 1 September 2008.

[9] On 12 May 2009, DFDS reported they had agreed to sell Queen of Scandinavia to a new Finland-based company Nordic Sea Line, with a delivery date set for June 2009.

[9][10] Nordic Sea Line planned on using the ship as a floating hotel and conference centre around Northern Europe.

In early 2010, Queen of Scandinavia was chartered to St. Peter Line for use on a new route operated by the company between St. Petersburg and Helsinki.

The Moby Dada was laid up in the Port of Barcelona as an accommodation service to the around 1000 police officers that had been ordered to participate in the government intervention in the elections.