Good to see her Patrick, I had forgotten that she came back long after the original Hamburg/Bremen service had ceased. I made a stormy voyage on her Hull to Bremen on 17 September 1968!
ANTARES (6717215), West Germany, 500gt, completed Travemunde 8-1967 collision (KOMPOZITOR BORODIN) at Bremerhaven 4.3.86 & BU Bardenfleth 17.4.86 [Schwarting]
50 YEARS AGO TODAY! Hull - 20 August 1973:
.... and it has taken all of these 50 years for me to discover and realise, by reference to entries in NEM, that 50 years ago I misidentified this ANTARES as the 1972-built one (IMO: 7222762) extensively covered elsewhere in NEM.