CIRCASSIA   1937
       
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Welcome to our Circassia website celebrating this stylish and remarkable ship. The Circassia was built in 1937 by Fairfield Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd, Govan, Glasgow for Anchor Line and their service to India. Indeed she was the first motor ship built for Anchor Line. She sailed on her maiden voyage from Glasgow and Liverpool to Bombay in October 1937. During the Second World War, like many oceanliners, she was requisitioned as a troopship.

She resumed her peacetime duties in 1948 back on the UK to India service. This continued until 1966 when Anchor Line discontinued the service after 110 years. The Circassia was the ship chosen to make the final voyage on the route. This rounded off the ship's career as well and she was sold for scrap and scrapped at Alicante in Spain.

This website aims to record the history of this fine ocean liner and act as a virtual home to honour and celebrate this fine ship. We hope you enjoy this website and when you leave we hope you will visit again soon.


   

M.V. Circassia

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~ The Last of Anchor Line ~









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Her Regular Service Route: Great Britain to India via the Suez Canal

Glasgow - Liverpool - Gibraltar - Port Said - Suez Canal - Aden - Karachi - Bombay

ANCHOR LINE LTD, GLASGOW

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