fairsea

Sailing from Mazatlan on 24 March 1992, photographed from on board Enchanted Isle.

Sitmar Line Built 1956, 16,667 gross tons, 608 foot x 80 foot beam, speed @ 20 knots ex Fairland ex Carinthia

Sitmar liner FAIRSEA after its initial conversion from the aircraft carrier Charger 1949. Built: 1941 Converted to a passenger ship 1949. 11,678gt Broken up at La Speizia 1969.

Sitmar Line (Alvion Steamship Co Ltd) Laid down 1941 by Sun Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Chester, Pennsylvania 13, 432 gross tons, 492 foot x 70 foot beam, 6 cylinder Doxford diesel speed @ 16 knots 1941 ex Rio de la Plata C3 cargo ship for Moore McCormack Lines 1942Completed at Newport News Shipbuilding

Sitmar Line's finest at the time in a magnificent setting

Fairsea heading north through the Panama Canal.

On the hunt for a photo found some of these instead. Andrew.

At Capetown in her definitively look.

After partial modernize :Built Sun Chester 1941- cv pass. ship 1949 l as RIO DE LA PLATA-FAIRSEA 49- Bu La Spezia 6-8-69.

Fairsea at Falmouth. 1959. owners Sitmar I believe.

Fairsea leaving Los Angeles 1974 taken from Arcadia. David