Dear Friends,
Allow me to share with all of you, via images of it's postcards, the magnificent lines of the splendid SS ANDREA C of Linea C/ Costa:
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Kind regards
Ship's Agent / Dimas Almada
Dear Friends,
Allow me to share with all of you, via images of it's postcards, the magnificent lines of the splendid SS ANDREA C of Linea C/ Costa:
AndreaC.jpg andrea c (2).JPG andrea_c_1942_2.jpg
Kind regards
Ship's Agent / Dimas Almada
Dear friends, if you are a ships postacrds collector and may be interested in exchanging ships postcards with me,please email to: [email protected]
Dimas great to have you back and thanks for opening this thread on a very interesting and attractive ship. I will upload some interesting brochure pages later on today.
Cheers
Henry
Dear friends here are the brochure pages as promised. Costa ships certainly had an elegant interior style in those days not like the Americanised minimalist decor of todays megaships!
Henry
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I did not expect her to have such cosy interiors!
ANDREA C. was an amazing transformation from what we call in Greece, a "Canadian Liberty".
She was one of tens of standart cargo ships built during the war to substitute the ships lost from the U-boats. If I recall well she was the only Canadian Liberty to become a passenger ship. She lasted until laid up in 1981, and she finally went to the breakers in 1983 at the age of 41.
Here is a photo of her during a call at Tenerife.
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source
Enclosed two images of Andrea C in Dubrovnik. Her first arrival to Dubrovnik was in May 1962. and her last on October 8th 1980. She was the first Costa ship ever visited Dubrovnik.
Dimas, all the best from Dubrovnik. To all other too, but I met Dimas few years ago in Funchal. Great man!
Neven
Here is a splendid ship brochure published by Linea C in 1973 about ANDREA C:
Part 1
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as a child:
"Australis" 1970 ~ "Ellinis" 1971 ~ "Irpinia" 1976
as an adult:
"Mikhail Lermontov" 1979 ~ "Maxim Gorkij" 1981 ~ "IvanFranko" 1985 ~ "Fedor Shalyapin" 1986 ~
"Stefan Batory" 1987 ~ "Italia Prima" 1995 ~ "Astra II" 1995 ~ "Costa Playa" 1996 ~
"Splendour of the Seas" 1997 ~ "Costa Tropicale" 2004 ~ "Color Magic" 2007 ~ "MSC Fantasia" 2020 ~
"MSC Musica 2022"
& numerous Cruise Ferries in UK and Scandinavian Waters
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as a child:
"Australis" 1970 ~ "Ellinis" 1971 ~ "Irpinia" 1976
as an adult:
"Mikhail Lermontov" 1979 ~ "Maxim Gorkij" 1981 ~ "IvanFranko" 1985 ~ "Fedor Shalyapin" 1986 ~
"Stefan Batory" 1987 ~ "Italia Prima" 1995 ~ "Astra II" 1995 ~ "Costa Playa" 1996 ~
"Splendour of the Seas" 1997 ~ "Costa Tropicale" 2004 ~ "Color Magic" 2007 ~ "MSC Fantasia" 2020 ~
"MSC Musica 2022"
& numerous Cruise Ferries in UK and Scandinavian Waters
Part 3
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+ some plans from different stages in her life
As three class liner
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as cruiseship 1968
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as cruiseship 1972
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as a child:
"Australis" 1970 ~ "Ellinis" 1971 ~ "Irpinia" 1976
as an adult:
"Mikhail Lermontov" 1979 ~ "Maxim Gorkij" 1981 ~ "IvanFranko" 1985 ~ "Fedor Shalyapin" 1986 ~
"Stefan Batory" 1987 ~ "Italia Prima" 1995 ~ "Astra II" 1995 ~ "Costa Playa" 1996 ~
"Splendour of the Seas" 1997 ~ "Costa Tropicale" 2004 ~ "Color Magic" 2007 ~ "MSC Fantasia" 2020 ~
"MSC Musica 2022"
& numerous Cruise Ferries in UK and Scandinavian Waters