The S.S. Bjørn is Denmark´s only coal-fired steamship with a triple steam engine. This wonderful over 100 year old icebreaker and tugboat served the Port of Randers in Jutland for 72 years until it was retired in 1981. During the last few years members of the Dansk Veteranskibsklub S.S. Bjørn in Elsinore (Helsingør) have been working on the restoration of the ship. On 30.9.2011 the ship was open to the general public.
You can read about the restoration project on the club´s own internet page (although most of the information is in Danish). On this page there are some nice pictures about the restoration work.
PS
Here are some of my newer pictures of S.S. Bjørn.
I could not resist adding this picture I shot of a somewhat newer tugboat in action in Elsinore on the same day:
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