History
| LOI | |
| Building contract | |
| Building started | |
| Keel laid | |
| 26/10/1955 | Launch |
| Sea trial | |
| Second sea trial | |
| 24/2/1956 | Delivered to Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab A/S Bergen, Norway |
| 1/3/1956 | Hurtigruten coastal service between Bergen and Kirknes. |
| 1968-1982 | Used some times to Svalbard service |
| 1976-1979 | 16 trips between Marsteinen and Lerwick. |
| 26/1/1979 | BDS sold it ships to TFDS |
| 4/9/1979 | Ship delivered to new owner |
| winter 1982/83 | Rebuild by Mjellem & Karlsen |
| 23/3/1983 | Back to coastal service. |
| 4/4/1994 | Take out from coastal service after Nordlys was delivered. Used summer service between Tromsø and Spitsbergen. |
| 9/9/1995 | Back to coastal service replacing Ragnvald Jarl. |
| 17/4/1996 | Take out from coastal service |
| 1996 | Tromsø – Svalbar service. |
| 2000 | Refurbished |
| 26/9/2005 | Back to coastal service |
| 3/2006 | Owner Hurtigruten Group ASA, Narvik, Norway. |
| 22/3/2012 | Take out from coastal service |
| 11/2012 | New owner Vestland Rederi A/S, Bergen, Norway |
| 3/12/2012 | New owner M/S Nordstjernen A/S, Oslo, Norway. |
| 2012 | Refurbished in Gdansk. |
| 10/11/2013 | Voyage from Gdansk to Bergen |
| 11/11/2013 | Grounded at Karmsundet |
| 12/11/2013 | Towed to Haugesund andd repaired |
| 2014 | Summer service to Svalbar. |