AMERIKANIS ex Kenya Castle – Passenger Cruise Ship
19904 grt / 1951 blt / Greece/ 5185398
Arriving at Dover – 21.9.1980
Don Smith Collection
Notes:-
Kenya Castle – Union Castle Line from 1952 to 1967
Built at Harland and Wolff,Belfast
tonnage when built 17040 grt
Launched 21.6.1951 and Maiden Voyage was March 1952
then
Sold to Chandris Lines and became Amerikanis
Tonnage was increased to 19904 grt
to which she was the first Passenger Cruise Ship to have a TV in every cabin
Chandris 1967 – 1980
Costa Line 1980-1984
Chandris 1984-2000
and finally scrapped at Alang,India in 2001
