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RETURN TO THE HOMEPAGE
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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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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 LINE)
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(c) The AJN Transport Britain Collection 2008 A Edward Elliott