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LOI
Building contract
Building started
Keel laid
26/5/1934Launch
Sea trial
Second sea trial
6/1934Delivered to Hafenrundfahrt AG, Kiel,
6/1934Operated at Kiel fjord area.
11/2/1938Sold to Kieler Verkehrs AG (SFK), Kiel, Germany
14/5/1943Ship sinks after a bomb hit.
5/1943Wreck lifted on shore
6/1943Towed to Svenborg, Denmark for repairing and lengthened 3 meters.
20/9/1946Back in Kiel. Same service.
1951Flensburg – Kappeln – Burg route.
1954/55Some charter periods to Skandinavisk Linjetrafik, Copenhagen, Denmark. Tuborg Havn – Helsingborg and Sønderborg – Eckernförde routes.
1954New main engine instaleld.
1956Charter to Viking Baadena, Helsingborg – Landskrona – Copenhagen route.
1957back in SFK service.
29/12/1976Sold to Ingo Jaich, Arnis, W.Germany.
25/5/1977Sold to Christian Bertholdt, Kiel, W.Germany. Planned to rebuild to restaurant ship, but laid up at Lübeck.
6/7/1982Sold to Michel Rentsch, Kiel, W.Germany. Plans to build working barge.
27/2/1983Sold to Förderverein MS “Stadt Kiel”, Kiel, W.Germany
7/85-3/5/90 Fundamental renovation by ABM of the association “Jugend in Arbeit” in Hamburg.
5/1990Back in Kiel operated cruises and charter cruises Kiel fjord and Baltic sea coast.
1994Extensive necessary underwater hull renewals at the Kröger shipyard in Rendsburg.
26/5/1994Entry in the register of monuments of the state of Schleswig-Holstein as a technical cultural monument.