Hey Marcus, nice to hear from you. Thank you for your great compliment!
Indeed, it was a nice day at Warnemünde, cold but busy with ships arriving and sailing. And in the afternoon even the sun stopped by for some short hours.

Best regards to you,
David

I like these old ladies. Great shot David!
I will miss this old ferries.
David, I hope you had nice hours in Warnemünde, my favourite pearl at the Baltic sea, too. :-)
best regards,
Marcus

Thank you Peter for your very informative insertion and the subsequent subscription of the ferry's fate.

Regards, David

You ask ,you get on Shipspotting. Well played PHa!

She was built by Nakskov Skibsvaerft for daily service as a railway ferry with 4 railway tracks with 500 m length for 60 railcars on the route Korsør - Nyborg between the danish islands Fyn (ger.: Fünen) (Nyborg) und Sjælland (ger.: Seeland) (Korsør). Plus 180 cars and 2.200 passengers. Front part of the ferry is owed to the special danish harbour conditions at Korsør - Nyborg. In 1997 the new Storebæltsbroen was opened and PRINS JOACHIM was uplaid. After rebuilding at Fredericia Værft in 2000, the railtracks where removed and vsl changed into Gedser-Rostock service. In 2004 a second rebuilt took place at Hamburg by Blohm & Voss with new diesels. Hope this may clarify some questions. Regards Peter

Hi Denis & Ralph, thank you too for your interesting comments, myself I have no clue about the particular purpose of this bow design.

Best regards to you,
David

Thank you Clyde & Brett for your nice compliments! Warnemünde is a truly interesting seaport at the Baltic Sea, always worth a visit!

Hope, you're doing fine,
Kind regards, David

I never found out the reason for this odd design, although I suspect it could have had something to do with restrictions caused by the width of the linkspan or something to that effect.

Ugly, strong duckling ;) nice photo @echobow !

Now that's a shot with character! Excellent composition, angle that shows "interesting" design, and a ship earning her living at 35 years of age.

Well done David

Somehow I think the hull & superstructure don't belong to each other here to make this a complete ship...