Patricia
1951
(Albatros AL-230)
- Type: Passenger ferry
- Displacement: 7,775 tons
- Dimensions: 454 x 58 x 29 ft.
- Machinery: 5406 kW = knots
- Passengers: 408
- Vehicles:
- Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle, England, 1951
- Service: Built for Swedish Lloyd's Gothenburg-London service. Sold to Hamburg America Line in 1957 and renamed Ariadne. Used around the world for cruising. Sold to Eastern Steamship Line in 1961 for Caribbean cruising. Sold to Chandris Line in 1972, and chartered out in 1973-74 as Freeport II. When returned to Chandris in 1974, she was renamed Bon Vivant and placed on Mediterranean cruising. Renamed Ariane in 1978 and after a lengthy layup, sent to the Far East to work out of Singapore. Scrapped in 1997.
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