Fairwind and Fairsea laid up at Southampton in August 1969.
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Port of registry | |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland |
Yard number | 700[1] |
Launched | 22 November 1956[1] |
Acquired | June 1957[1] |
Maiden voyage | 5 June 1957[1] |
In service | 5 June 1957[1] |
Out of service | December 2003[1] |
Identification | IMO number: 5347245[1] |
Fate | Scrapped at Alang, India, 2004 |
General characteristics (as built)[1] | |
Class and type | Saxonia class ocean liner |
Tonnage | |
Length | 185.40 m (608 ft 3 in) |
Beam | 24.49 m (80 ft 4 in) |
Draught | 8.90 m (29 ft 2 in) |
Installed power | 4 × John Brown steam turbines, combined 18277 kW |
Propulsion | Two propellers[3] |
Speed | 21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph) service speed[3] |
Capacity | 878 passengers (154 first class, 724 tourist class)[4] |
General characteristics (after 1971 refit)[1] | |
Type | Cruise ship |
Tonnage | 24,724 GRT[5] |
Decks | 11[5] |
Capacity | 925 passengers[3] |
Crew | 330[5] |
RMS Sylvania was an ocean liner built in 1957 by John Brown & Co (Clydebank), in Glasgow, for the United Kingdom-based shipping company Cunard Line. She was the last Cunard Line vessel built specifically for transatlantic crossings.[6] The ship was later heavily rebuilt as a cruise ship, and sailed under the names SS Fairwind, SS Sitmar Fairwind, SS Dawn Princess and SS Albatros before being scrapped in 2004. She was renamed SS Genoa for her last voyage.[1]