The M/V Karen Danielsen, is a multipurpose container feeder, built in March 1985 by J.J. Sietas KG, at their shipbuilding yard in Hamburg-Neuenfelde, Germany, and labelled a type 111a.
In 1992 it returned to Herbert Drewes and was again renamed to Esperanza and sailed under A German flag.
The ship was bought by the Danish shipping company Otto Danielsen (located in Virum, Denmark) on 30 December 2002 and was renamed M/V Karen Danielsen, and re-registered under the Bahamas flag.
M/V Karen Danielsen crashed into the Danish Great Belt Bridge on 3 March 2005 during a trip from Svendborg to Finland, and is currently out of service.
Several of the other crew members, all of whom were from Croatia, were badly injured, including the captain.