MS Dunnottar Castle

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• Princesa Victoria
• The Victoria
• Victoria
• Dunnottar Castle

The Victoria was a passenger ship that entered service in 1936 and was scrapped after an eventful career in 2004.

History

The ship was built in 1936 as Dunnottar Castle under the hull number 959 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. The launch took place on 25 January 1936. On 27 June of the year it was delivered to the Union -Castle Mail Steamship Company in London and then used in scheduled service from Southampton to Africa.

After the outbreak of the Second World War the ship was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, converted to an armed merchant cruiser and used by the Royal Navy. From 1942 to 1948, served as a troop transport.

In 1948 the ship was returned to the Union - Castle Line and used after appropriate conversion again in scheduled service from Southampton to Africa. In 1958, the ship of the Incres Steamship Co. was purchased in 1959 and rebuilt on the Wilton - Feyenoord shipyard in Rotterdam at a cruise ship. In this case, the ship received a new engine plant. It was then used as Victoria for cruises along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean.

In 1964 the ship at the Victoria Steamship Co in Monrovia, a subsidiary of the Swedish shipping company Clipper Line of Malmö was sold and continue to be used until 1975 for cruises in the United States and the Caribbean. In 1975, the ship was sold to the Chandris lines and used as The Victoria for Caribbean cruises and cruises in Europe. In 1987, the ship was renovated. 1993, it was bought by Louis Cruise Lines, refurbished and used under the name Princesa Victoria cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean.

The ship was used during Expo 98 in Lisbon and 2001, during the G8 summit in Genoa as a hotel ship. In 2004 it was scrapped at Alang (India).