Scanlines has sold the 'Kronprins Frederik' for scrapping at Smedegaarden in Esbjerg, where the ship was expected to arrive on July 27, 2026, at 1 p.m., enroute from Puttgarden. The ferry was ordered by the DSB at Nakskov Shipyard in 1978 and was delivered in April 1981, being deployed as a railway ferry on the Great Belt between Nyborg and Korsør until 1997, when the Great Belt Bridge opened. It was then sold to Scandlines and was first deployed on the Gedser-Rostock route, before being moved to the Rødby-Puttgarden crossing in 2017, where it sailed its last trip on March 9, when it was replaced by the newbuilding 'Baltic Whale'.
