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                                                     History

 

 

Building contract  
Keel laid  
26.10.1955 Launch  
24.2.1956 Delivered to (BDS) Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskap , Bergen, Norway  
2.1956 Hurtigruten service Bergen - Kirknes coastal route.  
   
1/1979 DBS sold ship to  Troms Fylkes Dampskibsselskap on 32 mil. NOK,  
4.9.1979 Delivered to Troms Fylkes Dampskibsselskap (TFDS)  
   
1982/1983 Refurbished and rebuild  
1984 New main engine  
   
   
4.4.1994 Last day on Hurtigruten coastal service.  
5.4.1994 Laid up  
19.6.1994 Tromsų - Svalbard route on summer season  
1.10.1994 Charter to German operator, cruises on Mediterranean and European ports.  
1.1.1995 End of charter, laid up  
9/1995 Hurtigruten service Bergen - Kirknes coastal route and cruises Tromsų - Svalbard route  
   
   
2000 Refurbished  
   
1/3/2006 New owner Hurtigruten ASA  
   
22/3/2012 End of last voyage between Bergen and Kirknes  
   
28/5 - 2/9/2012 Cruises on Spitsbergen.