My favourite passenger ships

Photograph of the French Line turbine steamship FLANDRE, a beauty from the 1950s seen here in her original form with North Atlantic French Line black hull. In 1962 she was transferred to the Caribbean service and repainted in white. Then in 1967 she was sold to Costa Line becoming the CARLA C. In 1975 her turbines were replaced by Diesel engines and so she enjoyed a long life cruising for the Italians. In the end she became Epirotiki Lines' PALLAS ATHENA and was destroyed by fire in Piraeus.
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