TSS Stefan Batory |
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| Career (Netherlands) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | 1951—1968: TSS Maasdam IV |
| Owner: | Holland America Lines |
| Port of registry: | Netherlands |
| Ordered: | 1950 |
| Builder: | Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam |
| Yard number: | 733 |
| Laid down: | 19th December 1950 |
| Launched: | 5th April 1951 by Mrs. Adriaan Gips |
| Maiden voyage: | 11th August 1952 Rotterdam—Southampton—Le Havre—Montreal—New York |
| In service: | 1952—1966 |
| Identification: | 5216147 |
| Career (Germany) | |
| Name: | 1951—1968: TSS Maasdam IV |
| Operator: | Europa-Kanada Linie subsidiary of Holland America Lines |
| Port of registry: | 1966—1968: Bremen, Germany |
| In service: | 1966—1968 |
| Career (Poland) | |
| Name: | 1968—1990: TSS Stefan Batory |
| Operator: | 1968—1988: Polish Ocean Lines 1988—1990: Hellenic Polish Line |
| Port of registry: | Gdynia, Poland |
| Route: | 1968—1988: Gdynia—Montreal |
| In service: | 1968—1990 |
| Career (Sweden) | |
| Name: | 1990—2000 TSS Stefan |
| Owner: | Stena AB |
| In service: | 1990—1992 as accommodation for asylum seekers in Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Out of service: | 1992—2000 |
| Fate: | Scrapped Aliağa, Turkey 2000 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 15015 |
| Length: | 153.4 m (503 ft) |
| Beam: | 21.1 m (69 ft) |
| Draught: | 8.8 m (29 ft) |
| Decks: | 10 |
| Installed power: | 6256 kW |
| Speed: | 18 knots |
| Capacity: | 783 First class: 39 Tourist class: 734 |
| Crew: | 336 |
The TS/S Stefan Batory was an ocean liner built in Holland in 1952 under the name of SS Maasdam, initially used to service the Dutch East Indies by the Holland America Line.
She was bought from Holland in 1968 and began service as a Polish ocean liner in April 1969 as a replacement for the obsolete MS Batory, both named after a king of Poland Stefan Batory (1533-1586).
After she was refitted and renamed she became the flagship of the Polish Ocean Lines in the 1970s and 1980s and mainly sailed from Gdynia—Copenhagen—Rotterdam—London—Montreal—Southampton—Rotterdam—Copenhagen—Gdynia. She remained in service until 1988 and was the last regularly scheduled transatlantic liner. She was scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey in May 2000.[1]
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