MS Nordstjernen (Norwegian: "The North Star") is a vessel constructed in Hamburg, Germany in 1956, and used on the Hurtigruten coastal service until 2012.

From the end of 2012 to July 2013, she underwent an extensive restoration in Gdańsk, Poland, which was subsidized with 2.5 million NOK by Riksantikvaren.

[4] After coming back to Norway and taking part in the Fjordsteam festival in Bergen in the first days of August 2013,[6] the new owner intends to market her as a hotel ship and for charter cruises.

[8] Since 2015, Hurtigruten has chartered the ship they formerly owned each summer and operated it again for Svalbard cruises.

[10] Hurtigruten Svalbard will use Serenissima, the former Harald Jarl, now also owned by the Vestland company, for these cruises.