The Hansa B type RODINA, contracted to Burmeister & Wain at Copenhagen in 1944 by Schiffahrt-Treuhand GmbH for Hamburg-Amerika Linie as ALSTERTOR, was delivered in August 1945 as FORNAES to A/S af 6 Februar 1943, the Danish state shipping company established to carry out the administration of ships built under the Danish-German Hanseatic ship program.

Briefly owned in 1946 as DANBELT, owned by A/S D/S Dania (J.D. Lauritzen of Hellerup), she was soon sold to Bulgaria.

RODINA, seen at anchor in the upper Bosphorus near Sariyer on 21st December 1975 during a snow storm, arrived at Sveti Kajo, near Split, on 4th January 1976 for breaking.