The FRANCONIA ex IVERNIA of 1955

The second of the four sisters of the SAXONIA-class Cunard passenger liners built by John Brown between 1954 and 1957, the IVERNIA was commissioned in 1955 and converted for cruising in 1962-1963 when renamed FRANCONIA and painted in the famous Cunard cruising green livery.
In 1973 she was sold to the Soviet Unoin and renamed FEDOR SHALYAPIN. The first photo shows the ship leaving Europe for Canada on a summer transatlantic crossing. The negative was sent to me by Alex Duncan and is part of my collection of 400,000 original negatives of ships. The second photo was taken by myself in Lisbon in the nineteen eighties. I was always fascinated by those solid funnels and the beautiful cruiser sterns of the SAXONIA sisters.

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