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1/3/1906Building contract
Building started
10/3/1906Keel laid
22/6/1906Launch
6/8/1906Sea trial
14/8/1906Second sea trial
15/8/1906Delivered to DFDS A/S , Copenhagen , Denmark
8/1906Stettin – Copenhagen – Christiania route
1918-19Charter to British Navy
1921Esbjerg – Harwich and Copenhagen – Oslo route.
1926Stettin – Copenhagen – Oslo, Esbjerg – Harwich,
Copenhagen – Århus – Oslo – Ålborg routes
1937Copenhagen – Oslo, Copenhagen – Århus and Copenahgen – Frederikshavnroutes.
27/9/1938Sold to Pärnu Laeva A/S , Estonia
27/9/1938New name Vironia, Homeport Pärnu, Estonia
1938Tallinn – Stockholm and Pärnu – Stockholm routes.
8/1940Take over by Estonian State Shipping Company, tallinn, USSR
22/6/1941Take over by Soviet Navy . used as transport ship.
28/8/1941On voyage to Kronstadt hit a mine and sank at Cape Juminda.