En Ibiza. Atracado estaba el Valdes, de MacAndrews Lines.         She was built in Denmark as Esbjerg for Det Forenade D/S (DFDS), as part of a series of four sister ships. After the German invasion of Denmark they were used to transport troops through the area, until 1944 when she was seized by the German Government, being renamed Kürassier. In August 1945 she was recovered by DFDS, who on the 26th of that month sent her with Danish crew from Lübeck to Copenhagen, but on the 25th she collided with a mine and sank. As she was in shallow waters, she was refloated in September 1946 and towed to Copenhagen, where she was lais up.
        In July 1947 she was acquired by Trasmediterránea and towed to Valencia, where she was totally rebuilt by Unión Naval de Levante, a job that lasted two years. She left the shipyard with the name Ciudad de Ibiza, home port Valencia and number 497, and from then on she was incorporated into the Trasmeditarránea lines until 1977, when she was decommissioned and laid up at Palma de Mallorca, until scrapped in 1978 at Vilanova y La Geltrú.

Shipyard / Year	Helsingörs Vaerft / 1929
Name	Esbjerg
Name / Year	Kurassier / 1944
Name / Year	Esbjerg / 1945
Dead weight	1,355	MT
Gross register	3,059	GRT
Net register	1,653	NRT
Passangers	1st: 100 - 2nd: 64 - 3rd: 38 - Deck: 145
Length	99.0	mtr
Breadth	13.5	mtr
Depth	8.7	mtr
Maximum draft	5.4	mtr
Propulsion	2 x Burmeister & Wain
Power	3,300	H.P.
Dynamos	3 x 90 kW - 110 VDC
Speed	15	knots
Bought	1947	to
Owner	Det Forenade (DFDS)
Name	Esbjerg
Scrapped	Vilanova i la Geltrú - 1978

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