The ship is owned by the Hamburg-based tug shipping company Fairplay , which is involved in the coastal protection working group for which the tug was used. From her chartered BMVBS the Fairplay-26 to protect the German coast. The ship was replaced in 2010 by the larger tug Baltic .
The tug was built in 2000 in the Astilleros Zamakona shipyard in Bilbao . The Fairplay-26 has a bollard pull of 65 tons and a maximum speed of 13.5 knots, is 34.85 meters long and 11 meters wide. Until it was replaced by the Baltic, it was the largest emergency tug stationed on the German Baltic coast.