Ss Ausonia Cruise Ship

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Ss ausonia cruise ship. This post is a tribute to a remarkably beautiful passenger liner the AUSONIA. Built in 1971 as the NORDIC PRINCE by WARTSILA in Finland the ship was operated by Royal Caribbean and had a GRT of 18346 she was 169 meters long with a top speed of 22 knots. Ivan Franko Alexandr Pushkin Taras Shevtchenko Shota Rusatveli Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Kalinin class.

Oddly even for a liner all cabins below A-deck were windowless but on the technical side the ships were among the most advanced of their time. SS Ausonia was an Italian cruise liner launched in 1956. Many of the ships listed underneath originally belonged to the once vast Russian passenger ship fleet.

In the handsome livery of Epirotiki she emerged in the spring of 1995 as the OLYMPIC for that companys Aegean-based cruise program. Initially painted in shades of green to emulate the legendary CARONIA their cargo gear was removed and their public rooms were restyled by noted designers like Jean Munro and Michael Inchbald. SS Aegean two Below.

The SS LEONARDO DA VINCI was an ocean liner built by ANSALDO SHIPYARDS at Genoa in 1960 the ship was intended as a replacement for the ill-fated ANDREA DORIA to operate on the North Atlantic run with ITALIAN LINE she was as built 33340 GRT and had a top speed of 255 knots. SS Raffaello was an Italian ocean liner built in the early 1960s for Italian Line by the Cantieri Riuniti dellAdriatico TriesteIt was one of the last ships to be built primarily for liner service across the North AtlanticHer sister ship was SS Michelangelo. In 1998 she was sold to the Louis Cruise Lines based in Cyprus.

Her sister ship was the SS Michelangelo. With her elegantly finned funnel and curvaceous lines she was a miniature combination of the ANDREA DORIACRISTOFORO COLOMBO and the LEONARDO DA VINCI both internally and externally. The largest ship in the fleet to date and with her deep draft she was not without her maneuvering difficulties an incident where she collided with the pier at Kusadasi in the summer of 1997 would be testament to that fact but she was beautifully maintained and loved by her.

Eugenio C was ordered for the South American service by Costa to replace the Frederico C on that route. She was launched on August 5 1956 and delivered to Adriatica Lines on September 23. The A Class of 1922 were the Andania Antonia and the Ausonia.