The Stella Polaris was a luxury cruise ship . It was built in 1927 for the Bergenske Dampskipsselskap (Bergen Line of Norway, Blon) from Gothenburg Götaverken (now Götaverken Cityvarvet AB). It had cabins for 165 first-class passengers and its two diesel engines enabled a top speed of 15 knots.
After the occupation of Norway by Germany in World War II , the luxuriously equipped ship was used as a residential ship for submarine crews and was anchored in Trondheim . After the end of the war, it was interned in the Lofjord , then returned to the BLoN and used again for cruises.
In 1970 the ship was sold to the Japanese railway company Izuhakone Tetsudō . It was then moored to the pier in Numazu Harbor . It served as a floating hotel until 1999, and as a restaurant until 2005. In 2006, the Swedish Petro-Fast AB wanted to use the former Stella Polaris, which has since been renamed Scandinavia , as a hotel and restaurant in Sweden. To do this, it should first be towed to China for repairs. On the way there, it sank on September 2, 2006 a few kilometers from Wakayama (Japan). The wreck lies there at a depth of about 70 meters. Up until then, the Stella Polaris was the longest-serving cruise ship in the world after the Doulos .
