RMS Carinthia (ship, 1956)

Carinthia

The Carinthia (right) in Southampton, 1967

Ship data flag  United Kingdom other ship names Fairland (1968–1971) Fairsea (1971–1988) Fair Princess (1988–2000) China Sea Discovery (2000–2005) Sea Discovery (2005) Ship type Passenger ship class Saxonia class home port Liverpool Shipping company Cunard Line Shipyard John Brown & Company , Clydebank Build number 699 Launch December 14, 1955 takeover June 1956 Commissioning June 27, 1956 Decommissioning 2003 Whereabouts Wrecked in India in 2005

Ship dimensions and crew length 185.4 m ( Lüa ) width 24.39 m Draft Max. 8.70 m measurement 21,947 GT   crew 461

Machine system machine 4 × John Brown steam turbines Machine performance 18,277 kW (24,850 hp) Top speed 20 kn (37 km / h) propeller 2 ×

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 868

Others Registration numbers IMO no. 5063629

The Carinthia was a passenger ship of the British Cunard Line put into service in 1956 and one of four sister ships of the Saxonia class that were in service on the North Transatlantic route. Carinthia , which has been operating for cruises since 1967 , has changed name and operator several times in its almost fifty years of service. Between 1988 and 2000 she was the Fair Princess for Princess Cruises . After the ship had last been used until 2003 for casino cruises, it met in November 2005 to terminate the Indian Alang one.

history

The Carinthia was the third of a total of four ships of the Saxonia class commissioned in 1951 , of which only two units ( Saxonia and Ivernia ) were originally to be built. Despite the growing competition from scheduled airlines, Cunard later decided to build the Carinthia and the Sylvania . The Carinthia was built under construction number 699 at John Brown & Company in Clydebank and was launched on December 14, 1955. After the takeover by the Cunard Line, the ship took on the liner service from Liverpool to New York and Montreal on June 27, 1956 .

After the transatlantic service had become uneconomical, the Carinthia switched to cruise operations in 1967. After another year in service to the Cunard Line ship in 1969 passed into the possession of Fairland Shipping, which in Fairland renamed and Southampton lie left.

From February 1970 to July 1972, the Fairland in Trieste was converted and modernized for the cruise service. During the renovation , it was given the name Fairsea in 1971 , and the Sitmar shipping company was the new owner . In July 1972, the ship stationed in the United States began service.

As China Sea Discovery in Kaohsiung, February 2002

In April 1974 the fair sea hit the headlines when 525 passengers on board fell ill with a virus. In 1984 the ship was rebuilt again and sold to Princess Cruises in 1989 under the name Fair Princess . After the Fair Princess had been stationed in the United States for another eight years, she switched to Australia for cruises from Sydney in 1997 , where she remained in service for three years.

In 2000 the ship was sold to Hong Kong under the name China Sea Discovery and was used from there for casino cruises off the coast, which however did not prove to be profitable. From 2002, it also ran to the Japanese city ​​of Ishigaki . In 2003 the China Sea Discovery was retired and launched in Kaohsiung .

After a two-year layover, the ship went to a scrapping yard in Alang , India , where it was demolished on November 18, 2005 under the name of Sea Discovery . With her, the last ship of the Saxonia class disappeared .

Web links

Commons : IMO 5063629  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Entry about the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
• History of the ship on liverpoolships.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CARINTHIA. In: liverpoolships.org. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .