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Building contract
Start of Production
2/8/1939 Keel laid
14/3/1940 Launch
8/5/1940 Delivered to A/S Grenaa-Hundested Færgefart, Grenå, Denmark
1940 Used as hotel ship at Grenå due to WW2.
1942 Take over by German Navy
9/1942 Warnemünde – Gedser service by German Navy
7/1943 Damaged  by air force attack to Travemünde.
1943 Towed to neptun Wert, Rostock for repairing.
23/6/1944 Capsize when was unloading cargo at Helsinki.
6-8/1944 Salvage of ship unloaded cargo and refloated
1944 Towed to Danzig and later Kiel where laid up  end of WW2.
7/9/1945 Returned back to Rederiet A/S Grenaa-Hundested Færgefart, Denmark
1945 Rebuild on Svendborg Værft, Denmark
7/1947 Grenå – Hundested route.
8/1947 Charter to A/S Larvik-Frederikshavnfaerge.
12/1947 Back to Grenå – Hundested service.
1959 Short charter period to Rederi Ab Göteborg-Frederikshavn Linjen , Göteborg – Frederikshavn route.
6/1964 Sold to Europafergen Service A/S, Grenå, Denmark . New name Varberg.
27/6/1964 Varberg – Grenå route.
1964 Short charter to Lion Ferry,Halmstad – Copenhamn route.
winter 1964/65 Mostly laid up
5/1965  Rederi Ab Göteborg-Frederikshavn Linjen , Göteborg – Frederikshavn route.
12/1965 Charter to Grenå – Hundested Linien, Hundsted – Grenå route.
spring 1966 Back to owner and Varberg – Grenå route.
9/5/1966 Capsized when drydocked at Falkenbergs varv. CTL.
6/1966 Sold to Ab Persöner, Ystad. For scrapping.
12/9/1966 Sold to Rederi AB Sally, Mariehamn, Åland.
10/1966 Arrived to Algot Johansson varvet, Mariehamn for rebuilding.
29/4/1967 Sold to Rederi Ab Solstad, Mariehamn, Finland. New name Viking 2.
1967 Mariehamn – kapellskär and some times Naantali – Mariehamn – Kapellskär route.
23/4/1970 Collsiion between Kapella and Viking 2 at Mariehamn.  Repaired Algots Varvet.
5/1971 Back to Mariehamn – Kapellskär route.
12/1977 Owner Rederi AB Sally, Mariehamn.
11/2/1978 Fire broke out when Viking 2 was winter laid up at Algots Varvet.
3/1978 Sold to Loviisan Metalli ja Kone Oy, Loviisa, Finland
11/3/1978 Towed to Loviisa for scrapping.