The Portuguese passenger cargo liner NIASSA photographed leaving Funchal, Madeira, in January 1978, on the first of eight weekly voyages she operated between Lisbon and Funchal under charter to CTM in January - March 1978, following the accident with the TAP Boeng 727-200 SACADURA CABRAL at the Madeira airport in November 1977.
Public outcry over the need for a regular passenger ship service between Funchal and Lisbon led to those eight NIASSA voyages.
At the time there was a statement that she would be replaced by a passenger car ferry soon after but this never happened.
The NIASSA returned to lay up in Lisbon in March 1978 and was scrapped in Spain the following year. As such she was the final passenger ship in the fleet of Companhia Nacional de Navegação. The 322 pax 1955-built NIASSA was delivered to CNN in August 1955 as the final ship in the post-war rebuilding program of the Portuguese Shipping fleet known as DESPACHO 100.
Although the NIASSA was designed to operate on the Lisbon to Angola service, she was extensively used in trooping voyages until November 1975.
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