The Hansa B type RODINA, contracted to Burmeister & Wain at Copenhagen in 1944 by Schiffahrt-Treuhand GmbH for Hamburg-Amerika Linie as ALSTERTOR, was delivered in August 1945 as FORNAES to A/S af 6 Februar 1943, the Danish state shipping company established to carry out the administration of ships built under the Danish-German Hanseatic ship program.

Briefly owned in 1946 as DANBELT, owned by A/S D/S Dania (J.D. Lauritzen of Hellerup), she was soon sold to Bulgaria.

RODINA, seen passing Maassluis, outbound from Rotterdam on 12th July 1968, finally arrived at Sveti Kajo, near Split, on 4th January 1976 for breaking.