A five-star cruise ship anchored in Aberdeen Harbour this weekend.
The Sea Cloud II, aesthetically based upon a historic tall ship while affording the luxuries of a high-end cruise ship, docked in the harbour at 6.45am on Sunday.
She left at 9.30pm, but is expected back on Thursday.
The vessel had been on a tour of the North Sea, but had not been scheduled to stop off in Aberdeen.
The yacht, owned and operated by Hamburg-based Sea Cloud Cruises, carries out journeys all across the globe, from the Caribbean to the North Sea.
Aberdeen and Edinburgh are two of the locations the 347ft cruise ship stops off at on tours of Northern Europe.
The yacht – built in Keil, Germany – features four decks, a library, lounge, a restaurant and a gym.
Sea Cloud Cruises own and operate three yachts in total, the Sea Cloud, the Sea Cloud II and the River Cloud II.
The Sea Cloud II is the sister ship of the windjammer, The Sea Cloud, which served as a weather ship for the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy during World War II.
It was also the first racially-integrated warship in the US Armed Forces.
Don’t forget to check out the other surprise visitor to Aberdeen Harbour yesterday – a super yacht belonging to £493million businessman Willy Michel.