Lavia (ship)
 As Flavia in Miami, May 1981
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The Lavia was a cruise ship in Panama -based shipping company Lavia Shipping SA , which as lines 1,947 passenger ship under the name Media for Cunard White Star Line was put into service. During its 42 years of service, the ship drove for Costa Crociere and the Cogedar Line, among others . In 1989 the Lavia was completely destroyed in a fire during renovation work and shortly afterwards scrapped in Taiwan .
history
The Media was built in 1947 as a combined passenger and cargo ship for the Cunard White Star Line at John Brown & Company in Clydebank . The ship was launched on December 12, 1946 and delivered to the shipping company on August 1, 1948. On August 20, the Media was put into service on the route from Liverpool to New York .
After fourteen uneventful years on this route, the Media was sold to the Italian Cogedar Line in October 1961 and renamed Flavia . The ship was then rebuilt in Genoa , which greatly changed its external appearance. In September 1962 the Flavia made her first voyage from Genoa to Sydney . In December 1962 the ship was moved to Bremerhaven . From 1968 the Flavia was used exclusively for cruises , after having made round trips from Rotterdam since 1963 . However, after just a year, the ship was put up for sale.
The new owner of the Flavia was the Italian Costa Crociere, who used the ship for cruises in the Caribbean from Miami . The Flavia remained in service for Costa Crociere until 1982 and was then sold as Flavian to Flavian Shipping SA, which was founded especially for it. However, the ship did not return to service, but was instead laid up in Hong Kong . In 1986 the ship was renamed Lavia after the shipping company changed its name to Lavia Shipping SA. After another three years without employment, the ship was to be put back into service after renovation work in 1989.
On January 7, 1989, however, a fire broke out in the ship during renovation work in Hong Kong, which completely destroyed it. The Lavia was declared a total write-off and towed to Taiwan, where it was scrapped. The cause of the fire could not be clarified.
Sister ship
The sister ship of the Media was the Parthia , which was also put into service in 1947. During its 22 years of service, the ship drove for a total of two other shipping companies until it was scrapped in Taiwan in 1969 as Aramac .