Photos by Oliver Sesemann

On passage from Dieppe to St. Petersburg.

En route to Kaliningrad.

En route from St. Petersburg to Suez.

En route from Napoli to Køge.

On passage from Brake to St. Petersburg.

En route to Vaasa.

En route from Klaipeda to Dagenham.

En route from Hamburg to Kaliningrad.

En route from Vlissingen to Gdansk.

In the Kiel Canal, en route from Emden to Rostock.

In the Kiel Canal, under tow, en route from Esbjerg to Tallinn.

Entering the locks at Kiel, en route from her builders to the Far East.

En route from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg.

Approaching the bunker berth at Kiel after entering the Kiel Canal. En route from Klaipeda to Marin.

In the Storebaelt, en route to Antarctica.

On passage from Rotterdam to St. Petersburg.

Under her new name FRIA, en route from Brake to Rønne.

On the Elbe, outbound from Hamburg to Geiranger via Cuxhaven.

Leaving Kiel for Ulsteinvik via Frederikshavn.

On the river Elbe, en route from Hamburg to Rotterdam.

En route to St. Petersburg.

In the Kiel Canal, en route from Eemshaven to St. Petersburg.

In the Kiel Canal, en route from Hamburg to St. Petersburg.

In the Kiel Canal, on passage from Klaipeda to Rouen.

In the Kiel Canal, on passage from Brunsbüttel to St. Petersburg.

In the Kiel Canal, en route from Esbjerg to Rostock.

In the Kiel Canal, en route from Hamburg to Klaipeda.

In the Kiel Canal, Germany, on passage from Ijmuiden, Netherlands, to Oskarshamn, Sweden.

Westbound in the Kiel Canal, Germany, en route from Oxelosund, Sweden

Arriving at Kiel, en route from Svetly to Brake via the Kiel Canal.

En route from Bremen to St. Petersburg.

Arriving at Kiel from Hamina.

Having just passed Rendsburg railway bridge while on passage from Porvoo to Sines.

Westbound in the Kiel Canal, in between hail and rain...

In the Kiel Canal, on passage from Puerto Bolivar to Gdynia.

In the Kiel Canal, en route from Immingham to Klaipeda.

En route from Gdansk to Falmouth UK.

Fitting out at Nobiskrug shipyard, Rendsburg, Germany.

Closely followed by yacht Kismet.

Under construction at FSG shipyard, Flensburg, Germany. Ferry Honfleur in the background.

Maiden arrival at Kiel

En route from Emden to Muuga.