Dunnottar Castle
1936
(Albatros AL-148)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 15,007 tons
- Dimensions: 560 x 72 x 28 ft.
- Machinery: Burmeister & Wain diesels, twin screws, 11,200bhp = 16 knots
- Passengers: 508 (258 first class, 250 tourist class)
- Builder: Harland & Wolff, Limited, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1936
- Service: Built for Union-Castle Line (British flag), London-around Africa service. Wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser, then trooping 1939-48. Reconditioned with 105 first and 263 tourist class and resumed around-Africa sailings 1949-58. Sold to Incres Line (Liberian flag), 1958 and renamed Victoria. Totally rebuilt 1959 at Wilton-fijenoord, Rotterdam with length 572 ft, new diesels for 18 knots, and 600 cabin class. U.S. cruising, 1960-75. Sold to Chandris Lines (Greek flag), refitted, 1975-76. Sold to Louis Cruise Lines (Cypriot flag), 1992. Renamed Princesa Victoria, 1993.
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