The Glücksburg was a passenger ship of the Flensburger Förde shipping company and its first new building after the Second World War. She was christened on May 4, 1959, two days before her launch in Husum , after the town of the same name on the Flensburg Fjord , and delivered on July 4 of the same year. The appearance of the ship met with approval, so that the following newbuildings in Husum were also ordered on the same lines. Nevertheless, the upper deck, which was open until then, was provided with weather protection until a solid aluminum structure was installed at HDW in Kiel in 1974 . The ship was also initially planned as a pure passenger ship. The facilities for the later butter journeys were retrofitted. Before the renovation, Glücksburg operated between Flensburg and Kollund . Then it was used together with the Mürwik on the Ems between Leer and Delfzijl , before it was chartered to the Lübeck-Flensburger KG Seetouristik in 1976. For these, she continued to make shopping trips to smaller Baltic Sea ports that larger ships could not call at. Three years later, Glücksburg made shopping trips from Wilhelmshaven as it did before on the fjord and the Ems. This lasted until 1985, where she chartered the Harle shipping company Warrings from 1983 . Then she drove again in the same service in Flensburg waters, between Flensburg, Kollund, Holnis and Sønderborg . In 1987 she was chartered to a shipping company from Papenburg , which she used again on the Ems under the name Gisela von Papenburg , until she was again sailing under her old name in her old territory a year later. In 1993 the Glücksburg was sold to FRS Charter GmbH & Co. and registered for the local Weiße Flotte GmbH on Hiddensee . In the following year it was renamed Dornbusch and started as a ferry on the Stralsund - Rügen - Hiddensee line . Four years later, in 1998, she was sold to Cabo Verde Sailing in Mindelo on Cape Verde , renamed Eirene and transferred there. After 1999 it lay in Mindelo until it was sold to a demolition yard there in 2006.
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↑ a b c Gert Uwe Detlefsen: Flensburg Fördeschiffe . Köhlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herford, 1977. p. 107
