At St Pauli Landungsbrücken, Hamburg before the inaugural sailing for Harwich.
12,752 grt; 2,000 tdw; 960 passengers; 619 cabin berths: 400 cars.
Operator: DFDS Seacruise Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas.
Built: 1976 by Werft Nobiskrug GmbH, Rendsburg, Germany. Yard no 685. LR/IMO no.
Propulsion: twin-screw with 2 x vee-16-cylinder Sulzer 16ZVA40S of 24,000 bhp (total) @ 500 rpm. Speed: 22.5 knots.
Built for I/S Jahre Line, Sandefjord,Norway as KRONPRINS HARALD on Kiel-Oslo service.
1987-sold to DFDS Seacruise Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas, renamed HAMBURG (Bahamas flag) for Hamburg-Harwich service.
1997-to ownership of DFDS Bahamas Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas, renamed ADMIRAL OF SCANDINAVIA for service Ijmuiden-Newcastle-Hamburg.
1999-Hamburg-Newcastle service.
2000-Ijmuiden-Newcastle service (under DFDS Seaways banner).
2002-Cuxhaven-Harwich service.
2002-sold to Access Ferries, Panama, renamed CARIBBEAN EXPRESS and rebuilt at Piraeus, Greece for service Puerto Rico-San Domingo.
2005-Sold to Western Holding Group Inc, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (managers Krone Navigation Co, Piraeus, name unchanged, Panama flag.
2010-out of service, sold to Baltic TransService Ltd, Kaliningrad, Russia, name unchanged, St Kitts/Nevis flag
2011-arrived breakers at Alang, India 25/1