RMS Caronia Timeline
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The End of the Line...
With the effects of the 1966 Seamen's strike biting hard, the progress of jet aviation and mounting operating and maintenance costs, 1967 was probably the first year that Caronia had made an operating loss for her owners. A glittering career as one of Britain's major dollar-earners was about to close.
On 09 October 1967 Captain “Pip” Read was advised that Caronia was to be sold. As an ageing ship, there were several problems in the engine room, added to which Caronia suffered quite heavy damage in a violent storm near Villefranche during the 1967 Summer Mediterranean Cruise, almost a re-run of a similar storm in 1963.
Although, in various guises, the hull of the Caronia lasted a few more years, this Timeline only covers her time in Cunard ownership, so our story draws to a close with the links from this index page.
A Dramatic Ending
If you came here wondering what Caronia's ultimate fate was,
then see this Timeline section about Caribia - A Sad Ending. Caribia's final months in New York and
her dramatic rendezvous with the rocks of Guam in a tropical storm of 1974.
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January 1967
February 1967
March 1967
April 1967
Sterling Cruise departs Southampton 07 January 1967
Great World Cruise - Started at New York 26 January 1967
See South African Tour Programme for 1960
Great World Cruise - Ends at New York 02 May 1967
Spring Mediterranean Cruise - Departs New York 05 May 1967
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Spring Mediterranean Cruise - Ends at Southampton 09 June 1967
Positioning transatlantic crossing to New York
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North Cape Cruise - Started at New York 28 June 1967
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[Images: Courtesy of Rob Mason]
North Cape Cruise ends at Southampton 10 August 1967
Positioning transatlantic crossing to New York
Summer Mediterranean Cruise
Departs New York 26 August 1967
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[Images: Gaillard Collection]
Summer Mediterranean Cruise
Ends at New York 26 September 1967
Late Autumn Mediterranean and Black Sea Cruise
departs New York 29 Sept 1967
This cruise was foreshortened due to the news that Caronia was to be withdrawn. Instead of taking her passengers to Southampton, she went directly to New York, then sailed back empty to Southampton, arriving the morning of 24th November. This is the 3rd known occasion when Caronia crossed the Atlantic east-bound with no revenue.
December 1967
At Southampton - awaiting her fate as a liner For Sale
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