Esbjerg Harbour, summer 1987

Model maker Søren Sørensen, Vejle, worked on the model for close to six years. At one point, Søren reached an impasse concerning the details of the deck and the outfitting and had to put the work on hold for a year and a half.

Then, one day in the summer of 1987, a friend of Søren’s called him from the harbour in Esbjerg: ‘Hey, Søren – guess who’s berthed next to me? Bloody Nella Dan!’

Søren jumped into his car immediately and drove straight to Esbjerg from Vejle, boarding Nella Dan in Esbjerg Harbour that same afternoon to measure deck gear, new lifeboats, davits etc. after the latest modifications that had been carried out in Newcastle that summer. The model is thus the last and most detailed registration of Nella Dan, as she looked before her final southern voyage.

This was Nella Dan’s first, only and last visit to her home port of Esbjerg.

Søren Sørensen’s model measures some 150 cm and weighs 50 kg with ballast. It is remote-controlled and features both engine smoke and running lights. It has received awards in several model shows since 1993.

The model is kept at KNUD E. HANSEN in the city of Elsinore north of Copenhagen.