Nassau [Mongolia, Rimutaka, Europa, Nassau, Acapulco]

I had difficulty figuring out where to place Nassau. Here is a ship that distinguished herself as an ocean liner but ended up being a very popular cruiseship.

The ship has special place in the Greek immigration history as shown below. The ad is from September 18, 1952

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The SS Mongolia was started being built for P&O by W G Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd. at Newcastle upon Tyne on November 22, 1918, but construction was delayed by post-war refits of the existing ships and she is not been launched until August 24, 1922. Used for Australia service , her characteristics were 16.576 GRT; 573 x 71 m; 840 tourist class passengers.

Two nice postcards of Mongolia from E-bay

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She left London on her maiden voyage to Sydney on May 11, 1923 and was converted to fuel oil in 1928. In 1938, P&O transfer the ship under long-term charter to their subsidiary, the New Zealand Shipping Company, who renamed her SS Rimutaka. She was reconfigured to carry 840 tourist class passengers. In September, 1939, she was requisitioned for conversion to an armed trade cruiser, but released from that service before the conversion; she remained in the UK-New Zealand service for most of the war.

After the hostilities ceased, she continued in the NZSC service on the same route; her last voyage with the company was in 1950, departing Wellington for London in January, 1950. She returned to the parent P&O for sale to Compania de Navegacion Incres SA (Incres Shipping Company) of Panama.

She was renamed SS Europa, and she was converted to take 614 tourist class passengers and placed into service transporting state-less immigrants from Europe to the United States and Canada.

The ship was then renovated in Genoa to become Incres Nassau SS Nassau, a cruise ship sailing between New York and Nassau, the Bahamas. Swimming pools and other amenities were added, suiting her to her new role. It was the first time a ship was employed year-round as cruise ship.

The ship was purchased in 1961 by Natumex (Mexicana SA de Compania Navegacion Turística), a Mexican state-owned company, to provide a fortnightly service between Acapulco and Los Angeles as Acapulco.
In 1964 she was towed in Japan for scrap.

Miramar shows

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IDNo: 5500158 Year: 1923
Name: MONGOLIA Keel:
Type: Passenger/cargo (rf) Launch Date: 24.8.22
Flag: GBR Date of completion: 26.4.23
Tons: 16504 Link: 1490
DWT: Yard No: 964
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 168.1 Country of build: GBR
Beam: 21.9 Builder: Armstrong Whitworth
Material of build: Location of yard: High Walker
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn): 2ST-16
Subsequent History: 38 RIMUTAKA - 50 EUROPA - 51 NASSAU - 61 ACAPULCO
Disposal Data: BU Sakai 15.12.64

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MONGOLIA 16504 1923 Peninsular & Oriental SN Co
RIMUTAKA 16504 1938 Peninsular & Oriental SN Co
EUROPA 16504 1950 Incres
NASSAU 16504 1951 Incres
ACAPULCO 16504 1961 Turistica Mexicana

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The shipslist writes

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Incres Compãnía de Navegación, Panama 1950-1954 / Incres Steamship Company Ltd., Liberia 1954-1964

Incres Compãnía de Navegación started operations in July 1950 with the EUROPA (ex- Mongolia built in 1923 for P&O). She made 5 round voyages from New York to Plymouth and Antwerp. After that she made cruises from New York mostly to Nassau.

In 1951 the EUROPA resumed the transatlantic route now from New York to Plymouth and Le Havre. After 7 round voyages she went to Genoa were she was refitted and renamed NASSAU. The NASSAU was placed in a service between New York and Nassau.

In 1954 the Incres Compãnía de Navegación was reflagged to Liberia and restyled as the Incres Steamship Company Ltd. In January 1959 the Union Castle Liner Dunnattor Castle was purchased, towed to Holland and refurbished, re-engined with diesel engines and entered service in December 1959 as VICTORIA.

The NASSAU was sold in 1961 for further cruising. The Victoria was mainly used for cruising but made some transatlantic voyages between 1960-1964.

The VICTORIA was sold to a Swedish Rederi Aktiebolaget Clipper in 1964 still managed by Incres and continued cruising from New York to the West Indies. Incres started also acting as the New York passenger agent restyled as the Incres Line Agency.

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The Victoria
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Finally, a short artcle on Europa

Italian Immigrant and Europa

Dr. Vincenzo Berglieri". Online Story Collection. Pier 21,
Canada's Immigration Museum. http://www.pier21.ca/wp-content/uplo...470a21bdb72256.

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Dr. Vincenzo Berlingeri
Italian Immigrant and Europa Crew
April 1951

According to an old Italian proverb a degree in law can open any door, towards getting a career. That is probably why, in April 1951, with WWII just behind me and with a few years of apprenticeship at the local shipsΆ chandlersΆ firm in Genoa, I left Italy to join the S/S Europa in Le Havre as a junior purser. The S/S Europa was an old P&O vessel, built for their trade from London to the Orient, and was originally named Mongolia. Later under a different company she became S/S Rimutaka, plying the same waters.

The new owner, Incres Steamship Company of Panama, named her Europa and with a capacity of about 650 passengers on a one class only basis, with an all Italian crew, she was employed under the auspices of an international agency to carry stateless individuals, created by the war, as immigrants to Halifax and New York. Our other port of call was Plymouth, where we were anchoring for just a few hours to embark Britons who were immigrating to Canada and the United States.

By the time I joined the Europa, she was already a sort of a veteran in this type of service, having started the previous year transporting the same stateless immigrants to Canada and the United States from Antwerp in Belgium. The switch from the aforementioned city to Le Havre was solely due to logistical reasons.

The round trip voyage practically took a month and the Europa remained in that operation until the end of September 1951, when she went to a shipyard in Genoa to undergo radical renovation works.

At the end of the conversion she was renamed the cruise ship Nassau, starting in late December of the same year in a weekly service from New York to Nassau, the first ship ever scheduled to sail year-round on a full cruising schedule. Years later, in 1960, she was sold to Natumex, a Mexican government agency created to pioneer cruising from Los Angeles, California to Acapulco, Mexico, and aptly renamed S/S Acapulco. She retired in the spring of 1963.

But let us return to the faraway April of 1951.
Of course, I was very excited about my new job. I remember, just a few hours out of Le Havre the first view of the white cliffs of the English

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And two nice photos of the Nassau

Henry! Do you have any schedules or ads?


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Να δούμε και μερικές φωτογραφίες του πλοίου όπως μετασκευάστηκε μετά την αγορά του από τη Μεξικανική Nav.Turisticana Mexicana και τη μετονομασία του σε ACAPULCO.

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Αυτό ήταν και το πρώτο μεξικανικό κρουαζιερόπλοιο. Μετά ακολούθησαν και άλλες προσπάθειες ( το REGENCY – πρώην ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ 11, πρόσφατα το OCEAN STAR PACIFIC) χωρίς να υπάρξει μέχρι σήμερα κάτι επιτυχημένο.
Το 1962 το ACAPULCO χρησίμευσε ως ξενοδοχείο κατά την παγκόσμια έκθεση του Seattle και έτσι το βλέπουμε σε αυτές τις φωτογραφίες:
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Εκτακτο δρομολογιο του NASSAU για Αμερικη. Ανακοινωση της 16/11/1958 απο το ΒΗΜΑ.

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Αρχική Δημοσίευση από Ellinis

Το 1962 το ACAPULCO χρησίμευσε ως ξενοδοχείο κατά την παγκόσμια έκθεση του Seattle και έτσι το βλέπουμε σε αυτές τις φωτογραφίες:
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Άλλη μια φωτογραφία απ'όταν το πλοίο χρησίμευσε ως πλωτό ξενοδοχείο στο Seattle.
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Ένα μίλι πιο νότια, βρισκόταν και ένα δεύτερο κλασσικό υπερωκεάνειο στον ίδιο ρόλο, το DOMINION MONARCH της Shaw Savill που είχε ήδη πουληθεί σε Ιάπωνες διαλυτές. Μερακλήδες κιόλας... καθώς του πρόσθεσαν την κατάληξη MARU στο όνομα του και τα σινιάλα τους στα φουγάρα του. Στην πρώτη το βλέπουμε σημαιοστολισμένο και με τα σχετικά μπάνερ να κρέμονται από τα κρένια διαφημιζοντας το. Οι διοργανωτές της έκθεσης είχαν στοχεύσει και στην ναύλωση του LIBERTE αλλά τελικά δεν προχώρησαν και το πλοίο πήγε κατευθείαν στο διαλυτήριο.
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she was the star of Incres before the fabulous VICTORIA arrives!

here some plans as NASSAU of Incres and also as ACAPULCO of Natumex - the latter a total business failure

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