MS Regula

MS Regula is a passenger and vehicle ferry built in Germany by Meyer Werft and launched in 1971. She was initially operated by LB ferries on the Helsingør–Helsingborg ferry route between Denmark and Sweden. Regula was the second of three identical sister vessels, and had an initial capacity of 800 passengers and 75 cars.[1]

Regula in Estonia, 2010
History
Name	Regula
Owner	TS Laevad
Port of registry	Roomassaare,  Estonia
Route	Reserve ferry
Builder	Meyer Werft, Germany
Launched	18 February 1971
Status	In service
General characteristics
Length	71.2 m (233 ft 7 in)
Beam	16.3 m (53 ft)
Draught	4.2 m (14 ft)
Speed	12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Capacity	400 passengers; 105 cars

After 26 years of service in Scandinavia, in 1997 Regula was sold to Saaremaa Shipping Company of Estonia to serve its routes between the Estonian mainland and the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea.[2]

Both Regula and operations on the island routes were taken over by Port of Tallinn subsidiary TS Laevad in 2016. Since the introduction of new, larger ferries on the routes in 2017, Regula has been used primarily as a reserve ferry.[3][4][5]