In 1978, she was sold to Minoan Lines following the closure of Swedish Lloyd's passenger services and renamed MS Knossos.

[1] Swedish Lloyd took over Svea on 7 January 1969 when the ship arrived at the Burmeister & Wain shipyard for rebuilding for the UK–Spain service.

In April 1969, she was renamed Hispania and entered service on the Southampton–Bilbao route, running parallel to her sister ship Patricia.

[1] The Southampton–Bilbao service had been abandoned a month before,[9] and as a result both Saga and Patricia were laid up at Lindholmens varv in Gothenburg.

On 6 April 1978, she was renamed Knossos and subsequently entered service on Minoan Lines Piraeus–Heraklion route.

[6][8] In 1988, Knossos was moved to the Piraeus–Chania service, where she remained until October 1995 when Minoan Lines decided to abandon the route.

[1][8] During the summer seasons of 2001 and 2002, Captain Zaman II was chartered to Comanav for service between Nador and Sète in France.

Following the end of her 2002 charter to Comanav Captain Zaman II was laid up at Tuzla, Turkey.

[1] On 17 January 2003, Captain Zaman II was sold to the Croatia-based SEM Maritime for service with its subsidiary Blue Line International.