The Donizetti was a passenger ship of the Italian Italia Società di Navigazione ( Italian Line ), which was commissioned as Australia for Lloyd Triestino in 1951 and was used there until 1963. After being sold to the Italian Line, the ship remained in service for another thirteen years before it was decommissioned in 1976 and scrapped a year later in La Spezia, Italy .
history
The Australia was built as the first of a total of three sister ships at Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico in Trieste and launched on May 21, 1950. After delivery to the Lloyd Triestino in April 1951, the ship was put into service on April 19, 1951 on the route from Genoa to Australia , where she was to spend the following thirteen years. The Australia was the first newbuilding for Lloyd Triestino after the Second World War.
In 1958, the Australia was modernized at Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, increasing the tonnage from 12,839 to 13,226 GRT and converting the ship's passenger areas.
In 1963, the newly commissioned sister ships Galileo Galilei and Guglielmo Marconi took over the route to Australia. On January 18, 1963, the Australia was therefore retired and sold together with her two sister ships to the Italian Line, which she used as Donizetti in service from Genoa to Valparaíso .
The Donizetti remained in service for another thirteen years before service to South America became unprofitable and the ship was decommissioned in July 1976. After a year of lay- in in Genoa, the La Spezia-based shipyard Cantieri Navali del Golfo bought the ship in July 1977 to scrap it. The sister ships Oceania and Neptunia also arrived in La Spezia in 1977 for scrapping.
