Bries is a double ender steel boat designed and built by Max Oertz in Hamburg, Germany in 1928. The vessel was called a Küstenjollenkreuzer, with a slender V-shaped fore section that gradually flattened out and exhibited the typical light-displacement lines that are now common so many years later, giving ships greater speeds.
After the end of the second world war, Mr. P.J. Soetens bought Bries from the survivors of Mister Otto Verdoorn, who died in Germany in 1944, by that time well-known as Fantasia II, maybe her original name. Soetens rescued Bries from a miserable state, with the interior full of water, that had destroyed the entire beautiful wooden mahogany interior paneling. It was a 2 year rebuilt project. Little is known about Mr. Soetens sailing activity during this period.
In 1950, Mr. Olifiers bought the boat. The deck house was painted in white. He sailed Bries to Skagerrak, Norway in 1951 where they faced a severe storm that affected compass and navigation due to a lightning strike, and they were later assisted by a Swedish fishing boat.
In 1960 Bries sailed a great North Sea Race, finishing in 8th out of 32 participants.
In 1961, Bries was listed for sale for a price of 19.000 Dutch Guilders, as announced in a magazine. 
She was bought in 1963 by Mr.Vlaming for 15.000 Dutch Guilders. The original deck house color was recovered.
Since 1928, Bries sailed with many owners, not always under the same name.
