The ship is one of the last big vessels built of oak and in traditional design, at the shipyard J.-Ring Andersen in Svendborg. Her first name was "Mona".

Owned by A.E. Sørensen in 1953-64 and renamed "Svendborg".

Renamed to "Activ" in 1968 with home port in London and restored between 1977-80 in Troense by Michael Kiersgaard
in the order of the architect Volkwin Marg from Hamburg as a schooner with three masts and three topsails.
cruising in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, multiple crossings of the Atlantic to the Caribbean and to Newfoundland, used for filmwork for several series, among others for "Jack Holborn", the movie "America".