The Viktoria was built as a steamship by Janssen & Schmilinsky in Hamburg in 1901 and was named Herzog Friedrich until 1938 . The district administration used the ship on the Schlei between Kappeln and Schleswig . In 1938 the ship was taken over by the Kiel shipowner August C. Hansen and renamed Viktoria ; It was given the name of a former brig of the Viktoria shipping company and was used as a haulage ship from that point on . In 1939 it was made a test vehicle for secret systems and in 1940 a tender for Scharnhorst . After it sank in the port of Kiel in 1944, it was lifted and repaired in 1949. Then it was put back into service as a motor ship. In 1952 it was supposed to be sold to Israel , but was not given a permit to cross the Suez Canal and therefore remained in Germany. In 1958 it became the property of the German Navy, which wanted to use the ship as a measuring hulk , but did not expand the machine for cost reasons. In 1970 the ship was decommissioned by the German Navy and in 1971 it became the property of a private person in Otterndorf . At that time it was called the pirate . Then the ship was sold to the Duisburg car recycling company Ernst Busch. In 1994 it became the property of Roland Thurow, who used it as a passenger ship from Ueckermünde . From this change of ownership at the latest, the ship again bore its name Viktoria , under which it was still used afterwards.
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Gert Uwe Detlefsen , passenger shipping on Germany's coast. From Altwarp to Papenburg , Bad Segeberg and Cuxhaven 1994, ISBN 3-928473-14-X , pp. 10-12
