RMS Saxonia (1954)

	Postcard of RMS Saxonia
History
Name	1954–1962: RMS Saxonia; 1962–1973: RMS Carmania; 1973–1999: SS Leonid Sobinov;
Owner	1954–1973: Cunard Line; 1973–1990: Black Sea Shipping Company; 1990–1999: Transorient Overseas;
Operator	1954–1971: Cunard Line; 1973–1995: Black Sea Shipping Company;
Port of registry	1954–1963: Liverpool, United Kingdom; 1963–1973: Southampton, United Kingdom; 1973–1990: Odessa, Soviet Union; 1990–1999: Valletta, Malta;
Builder	John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland
Yard number	692
Launched	17 February 1954
Completed	August 1954
Maiden voyage	2 September 1954
Out of service	6 October 1995
Identification	Call sign: 9HDU3 (Carmania call sign : GSJS); IMO number: 5064324;
Fate	Scrapped in Alang, India in 1999.
General characteristics (as built, 1954)
Class and type	Saxonia class ocean liner
Tonnage	21,637 GRT; 8,836 DWT;
Length	608 ft (185 m)
Beam	80 ft (24 m)
Draught	28 ft (8.5 m)
Installed power	24,500shp
Propulsion	Geared turbines from builders, Twin screw
Speed	20 knots (37.04 km/h; 23.02 mph)
Capacity	125 first class, 800 tourist class
Crew	461
General characteristics (as rebuilt, 1963) Ship type=Ocean liner/cruise ship
Tonnage	22,592 GRT (1969, 21,370 GRT)
Capacity	117 1st class, 764 tourist class
Notes	Otherwise the same as built

Saxonia was a British passenger liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Scotland for the Cunard Steamship Company for their Liverpool-Montreal service. She was the first of four almost identical sister ships built by Browns between 1954 and 1957 for UK-Montreal service. The first two of these ships, Saxonia and Ivernia were extensively rebuilt in 1962/3 as dual purpose liner/cruise ships. They were renamed Carmania and Franconia respectively and painted in the same green cruising livery as the Caronia. Carmania continued transatlantic crossings and cruises until September 1967 when she closed out Cunard's Montreal service. She and her sister had been painted white at the end of 1966 and from 1968 Carmania sailed as a full time cruise ship until withdrawal after arriving at Southampton on 31 October 1971. In August 1973 she was bought by the Soviet Union-based Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed SS Leonid Sobinov. The ship was scrapped in 1999.

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