Media
1947
(Albatros AL-252)
- Type: Passenger / general cargo
- Displacement: 13,345 tons
- Dimensions: 531 x 70 x 30 ft.
- Machinery: Geared steam turbines, twin screw, 15,000 shp = 18 knots
- Passengers: 250 first class
- Crew: 184
- Builder: John Brown & Co, Ltd, Clydebank, Scotland, 1947
- Service: Built for Cunard Line's Liverpool-New York service. First new Atlantic passenger to be completed postwar. Maiden voyage 20 Aug 1947. Sister Parthia followed in 1948. Known as a poor sea boat, Media was used by Cunard to test the first fin stabilizer on a North Atlantic liner with an installation in 1952. It was successful, leading to the installation of stabilizers on the rest of the Cunard fleet and many other Atlantic liners.
Sold in 1961, she became the Italian immigrant transport Flavia, rebuilt and modernized at Officine A&R Navi, Genoa to 557 ft length and 15,465 GRT with accommodation for 1,224 all one class. Sep 1962 made first voyage Genoa-Sydney.
In 1963 she began Rotterdam-Panama-New Zealand-Australia-Mediterranean-Rotterdam service. Starting in 1968 she went to cruising. Sold 1969 to Costa Armatori, Genoa, and cruised out of Miami. She lasted until 1989, when she was destroyed by fire at Hong Kong. The Parthia became the Remuera and later the Aramac, before being scrapped on Taiwan in 1970.
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