RMS Ivernia
A postcard of the RMS Ivernia.
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| Ordered: | 1951 |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Yard number: | 693 |
| Laid down: | December 1951 |
| Launched: | 14 December 1954 |
| Christened: | 1955 |
| Completed: | 1955 |
| Maiden voyage: | 1 July 1955 |
| Out of service: | 1995 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped in Alang, India, in 2004 |
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| Tonnage: | 21,717 GRT |
| Length: | 608 ft 3 in (185.39 m) |
| Beam: | 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m) |
| Draught: | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
| Installed power: | 4 steam turbines, 24,500 shp |
| Propulsion: | Two propellers |
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| Capacity: | 929 Passengers |
| Crew: | 461 |
RMS Ivernia was a Saxonia class ocean liner, built in 1955 by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland for Cunard Line, for their transatlantic passenger service between the UK and Canada. In 1963 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and renamed RMS Franconia, after the famous pre-war liner RMS Franconia. She continued to sail for Cunard until being withdrawn from service and laid up in 1971. In 1973 she was sold to the Soviet Union's Far Eastern Shipping Company and, renamed SS Fedor Shalyapin, cruised around Australia and the far East. In 1980 she was transferred to the Black Sea Shipping Company fleet, and for a time returned to cruising in the Mediterranean and around Europe. In 1989 she was transferred again, to the Odessa Cruise Company, and continued her career as a cruise ship until 1994. She was then laid up at Ilichevsk, a Black Sea port 40 km southwest of Odessa, until 2004 when, as the Salona, she sailed to Alang, India, where she was scrapped.
Near the end of 1951 Cunard Line announced their intention to build two new ships for the Liverpool-Montreal route. Not long afterwards, the plans were extended to build four ships rather than two - RMS Saxonia, RMS Ivernia, RMS Carinthia and RMS Sylvania. They were designed to be the largest ships operated until then by Cunard on their service between the United Kingdom and Canada, while still being able to navigate the St Lawrence River to Montreal. The contracts for building all four ships were awarded to John Brown & Company, in Clydebank.
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