Photos by Oliver Sesemann

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

Maiden arrival at Kiel

En route from Emden to Muuga.

Kiel Canal, bound for Esbjerg.

Eastbound in the Kiel Canal.

Northbound in the English Channel, en route from Glasgow to Ghent.

Meeting sister Heluan in the Kiel Canal.

Falmouth for orders.

Falmouth for bunkers. En route from Rotterdam to Sept-Iles.

Leaving the Kiel Canal locks at Kiel, en route from Bremerhaven to Liepaja.

In the Kiel Canal, en route from Rotterdam to Mantyluoto.

En route from Nouakchott to Gdynia.

In the Kiel Canal, en route from Ijmuiden to Mukran.

En route from Dordrecht to Iggesund.

En route from Dordrecht to Iggesund.

Leaving the Kiel Canal at Brunsbüttel during her delivery voyage from builders Neptun Werft, Warnemünde, to Dagebüll.

Arriving at Kiel at the end of her delivery voyage from builders Meyer Turku.

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

Fitting out at builders FSG shipyard, Flensburg, Germany, together with Tulipa Seaways.

En route from Terneuzen to Sillamae, Chem Polaris has just left the locks of the Kiel Canal, while Star Isfjord is approaching the locks on her way from Gdansk to Bremen.

Margrethe Maersk passing Maren Maersk

In the Kiel Canal, en route from Gabes to Gdansk.

Arriving at Kiel at the end of her delivery voyage from Meyer Turku shipyard.

Passing the port of Rendsburg during a transit of the Kiel Canal, en route from Hamburg to Gdansk.

Fitting out at FSG shipyard, Flensburg, Germany.

Leaving the locks at Kiel at the start of a westbound transit of the Kiel Canal, August 1995.

Eastbound in the Kiel Canal

Following a collision with the gondola of the Rendsburg railway bridge (background right), Evert Prahm (left) is moored at the nearby Kreishafen port at Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal, Germany.

Arriving Fort Lauderdale

Leaving Kiel Germany for Ust-Luga, Russia, 2015 09 09. Coaster Helen Anna in the background.

Arriving at Kiel bound for the Kiel Canal 2015 07 01

Eastbound in the Kiel Canal closely followed by Robert 2015 05 22

Eastbound in the Kiel Canal, 2015 05 03

Catching the late afternoon sun at Istanbul, 1996 07 03

Arriving at Kiel

Blue Betria (ex North Truck) leaving drydock at Soby Vaerft, 2015 04 10

Lillebaelt

At Soby shipyard, 2015 04 10

Laid up at Faaborg, 2015 04 10.

Port Everglades, FL, 1996 03 30

At the start of a westbound transit of the Kiel Canal, 1994 07 18

Westbound in the Kiel Canal, 1994 06 12

Eastbound in the Kiel Canal, 1994 06 10

Outbound, River Scheldt, 1994 07 31

River Scheldt, outbound, 1994 07 30

Berlin Senator inbound on the River Scheldt, 1994 07 31