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To Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab.
The Polarlys (1,069 grt, 209 ft. long) was delivered to the line in 1912 and sailed on the coastal express route until 1951.
She ended her career with the Norwegian Navy, finally sold for scrap in 1963.
The Venus (5,406 grt, 399 ft. long) was built in 1931 for the Bergen-Newcastle route.
Seeing war service with the Germans, she was sunk by allied bombers in 1945.
After having been raised and rebuilt, she was back in North Sea service for another 20 years from 1948.
The Meteor (3,718 grt) was built in 1904 for the Hamburg-American Line.
A full-time cruise ship, she was taken as war reparations by the British in 1919.
She was sold to Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab in 1921 and continued cruising until 1940.
Used by the Germans as a hospital ship, she was sunk in 1945 following an allied air raid.
The Stella Polaris (5,209 grt, 416 ft. long), designed for cruising solely, was delivered in 1927.
She became a German accommodation ship during WW2.
After a refit she was returned to her owners, but sold to the Clipper Line of Sweden in 1951.
This company sold her to Japan in 1969, but she sank in 2006
under tow for a Chinese yard where she was to be repaired.
The photo above is a detail from a page which gives the itinerary of one of her cruises during the summer of 1936.
The Leda (2,415 grt, 306 ft. long)
The Iris (1,177 grt, 236 ft. long).
The Lynx (1,366 grt, 231 ft. long).
The Lyra (1,474 grt, 242 ft. long).
She was built in 1912 for Neue Dampfer-Compagnie (in 1923 renamed
Stettiner Dampfer-Compagnie) as the Prinz Eitel Friedrich. She was renamed Schlesien in 1922,
but sold to Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab in 1925 and renamed Lyra. A troopship for the allies in WW2
and acting as a relief ship on Hurtigruten 1945-53, she was sold to the Middle East in 1954.
She sank in the Red Sea a few years later.
(Information from Per Rydheim; also Warsailors.com.)
The Vela (1,180 grt, 224 ft. long).
The Crux (3,828 grt, 368 ft. long) was delivered in 1923 and was sunk by a German submarine in 1940.
The Kora (817 grt, 199 ft. long).
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