RMS Saxonia (ship, 1954)
 Hung up as Carmania in the River Fal
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The Saxonia was a passenger ship of the British Cunard Line , which was put into service in 1954 as the first of four sister ships . In 1973 the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company bought the ship and used it from then on as Leonid Sobinov before it was retired in 1995 and broken up in India in 1999 .
history
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The Saxonia was built under the hull number 692 at John Brown & Company in Clydebank and launched on February 17, 1954. After delivery to the Cunard Line in August, the ship was put into service on September 2, 1954 on the route from Liverpool to Montreal . In 1957, Southampton became the port of departure on the Montreal route.
In April 1961 the Saxonia switched to the route from Liverpool to New York , before it was brought back to its builder John Brown & Company in Clydebank in 1962 after a year of service on this route for renovation work.
On April 8, 1963, the ship was put back into service under its new name Carmania and henceforth used for cruises from various US ports. In October 1971, was Carmania Cunard retired and the River Fal near Southampton launched .
In August 1973, the Odessa- based Black Sea Shipping Company bought the ship and, after renovation work, started using it from February 1974 under the name Leonid Sobinov for both liner trips between Southampton and Sydney and for cruises.
In 1990 the Black Sea Shipping Company sold the ship to Transorient Overseas, based in Valletta . After another five years of service, the Leonid Sobinov was retired on October 6, 1995 and launched in Ilyichovsk . After four years of lay-in, the ship arrived on April 1, 1999 for scrapping in Alang, India , where it was dismantled from October 1, 1999.
literature
- Jaroslav Coplák, Pavol Pevný: passenger ships. Dausien 1996, ISBN 3-7684-0570-2