V I C T O R I A  1953







       
RETURN TO THE HOMEPAGE                                                                                                                                                                                                                               THE OCEAN LINERS


 

Welcome to our Victoria website celebrating this stylish and beautiful ship. The Italian tradition of luxury and style at sea was never so fully realised as it was with its postwar fleet of liners. Though its fleet had been virtually destroyed by the ravages of war, Lloyd Triestino made a great effort to rise from those ruins, and thus were produced some of the finest, stylish, elegant, graceful and most beautiful vessels to ever sail the oceans of the world.

The Victoria was the last Trieste-built liner, she was the last active example of the classic passenger cargo liner. She was built as the Victoria for Lloyd Triestino's Italy to Hong Kong service. The Victoria was completed by the San Marco (near Trieste) yard of Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico in March of 1953. It was the "Golden Age" of the combi-liner, and the Victoria and her sister Asia were among the most beautiful of their type ever built.

She entered service with Lloyd Triestino in 1953 on the Italy to India and China service via the Suez Canal. She served until 1974 when she was transferred to Adriatica Line. She was retired from service in 1977 and sold to Mercy Ships in 1978. She was converted into a hospital ship as Anastasis. She served in this role reaching out to help the world's poorest people until 2007 when she was retired and scrapped at Alang, India.  


   


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Her Regular Service Route: Italy to India and the Far East

Trieste to Venice, Brindisi, Port Said, Suez Canal, Suez, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Djakarta, Singapore and Hong Kong "Far East" service

"THE FAR EAST SERVICE"

LLOYD TRIESTINO SOCIETA DI NAVIGAZIONE S.p.A., TRIESTE

(LLOYD TRIESTINO LINE)






(c) The AJN Transport Britain Collection 2008                                                                                                                                                                                 A Edward Elliott