RMS Ivernia (ship, 1955)

Ivernia

As Franconia (right) in Southampton, 1971

Ship data flag  United Kingdom other ship names Franconia (1963–1973) Fedor Shalyapin (1973–2004) Salona (2004) Ship type Passenger ship Callsign GTKX home port Southampton Shipping company Cunard Line Shipyard John Brown & Company , Clydebank Build number 693 Launch December 14, 1954 takeover June 1955 Commissioning July 1, 1955 Decommissioning 1996 Whereabouts Scrapped in India in 2004

Ship dimensions and crew length 185.4 m ( Lüa ) width 24.46 m Draft Max. 8.56 m measurement 21,717 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 943

Others Registration numbers IMO no. 5119765

The Ivernia was a passenger ship of the British Cunard Line that entered service in 1955 as one of four sister ships . In 1973 the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company bought the ship and used it from then on as Fedor Shalyapin before it was retired in 1996 and scrapped in India in 2004.

history

The Ivernia was built under construction number 693 at John Brown & Company in Clydebank and launched on December 14, 1954. After the delivery to the Cunard Line in June 1955, the ship was put into service on July 1, 1955 on the line from Greenock to Montreal . In April 1957 it switched to the route from Southampton to Montreal.

From October 1962 to April 1963 the Ivernia was rebuilt by its builder in Clydebank and renamed Franconia . In July 1963, she began operating on the route from Rotterdam to Montreal. From 1970, the ship was for some cruises in use, but was finally in October 1971 launched .

As Fedor Shalyapin in Illichivsk, 2003

After almost two years of layover, the Franconia went to the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company, which it renamed Fedor Shalyapin and from then on used both in the liner service from Southampton to Australia and for cruises in European waters. In her last years of service she was only on cruises. In 1996 the ship was finally decommissioned and laid up in Illichivsk .

After eight years of lay, the Fedor Shalyapin went to an Indian demolition yard. On February 11, 2004, it arrived in Alang under the transfer name Salona , where it was scrapped in the following weeks.

Web links

Commons : IMO 5119765  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
• the ship on liverpoolships.org (English)