Ship Drawing

Built : 1956 Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Tonnage : 20,750 g, 8,260 n
Passengers : 207 1st, 216 Cabin, 343 Tourist. Crew 327
1955 June 7th : Launched
1956 Apr: Cost £5 million. May 3rd : Maiden voyage Liverpool-Panama Canal-Valparaiso
1963 Chartered to the Travel Savings Association
1964 Mar 10th : Arrived Belfast for conversion to a cruise liner.
Tonnage : 21,501g,
Passengers : 1047, one class.
1964 June 10th : Placed under Union Castle management; first cruise Southampton-New York. Nov: painted in Union Castle colours.
1967 Tonnage 20,750g
1969 Transferred to Royal Mail ownership
1973 Sept : Sold to Union Castle Mail S.S. Co.
1975 : Arrived at Kaohsiung and broken up.


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