N/T PÁTRIA in Madeira

Two images of the Portuguese passenger cargo liner PÁTRIA built in 1947 at Clydebank by Messrs John Brown to the order of Companhia Colonial de Navegação, Lisbon.
The PÁTRIA of the first new passenger liner built for CCN, being the first of a series of four 13.000 gross tons passenger cargo mail liners for the Lisbon - Africa service, all built in the UK after WW2.
Delivered in December 1947, she left Lisbon in January 1948 for Africa.
She is seen in Madeira in both pictures by local photographers Foto Figueiras and Foto Perestrellos. The second image also dates from PÁTRIA early days but it was not the inaugural voyage, and she is on her way home, fully laden and with the hull repainted.
The PÁTRIA was a fine ship. Although primarily used on the East Africa reguilar line, she also did voyages to Brazil, Central America and Karachi. The PÁTRIA was scraped in Taywan in 1973

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