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- Kenya
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- Kenya
Castle - Amerikanis
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- Kenya Castle was completed in 1952 for the
Union-Castle Line round Africa service by Harland & Wolff,
Belfast. The second of three sisters built 1951-52, the others
being Rhodesia Castle and Braemar Castle. In 1967
Kenya Castle was sold to Chandris and renamed Amerikanis.
She was intended for summer Atlantic service, but the market
had been effectively ended by air competition by the time she
was ready for service in 1968. Amerikanis was used initially
on cruises from New York, later sailing in Europe and the Caribbean.
Between 1980-84, Amerikanis was chartered to Costa Line,
reverting to Chandris service from 1984. She was laid up in 1996.
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- Ship Names on this Page:-
- Kenya
Castle
- Union-Castle Line 1952-67
- Amerikanis - Chandris Line 1967-
- Amerikanis - Costa Line charter
1980-84
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- References:-
- UNION-CASTLE
LINE - A
Fleet History by Peter Newall: Published by Carmania Press in
1999
- This is the
definitive history of the Union-Castle Line - Available from
Mainmast Books
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- Kenya Castle
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1952-67)
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- Kenya Castle was completed in 1952 for the
Union-Castle Line round Africa service by Harland & Wolff,
Belfast. The second of three sisters built 1951-52, the others
being Rhodesia Castle and Braemar Castle. In 1967
Kenya Castle was sold to Chandris and renamed Amerikanis.
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- Union-Castle
Line official card with original funnel.
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- Union-Castle
Line official card with modified funnel.
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- Revd.Father
M.N.W.Edwards modern card serial BrS27.
- Photographed
at Zanzibar, June 1955, by J.B.Boulton.
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- Amerikanis
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Line: 1980-84)
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- In 1967 Kenya Castle
was sold to Chandris and renamed Amerikanis. She was
intended for summer Atlantic service, but the market had been
effectively ended by air competition by the time she was ready
for service in 1968. Amerikanis was used initially on
cruises from New York, later sailing in Europe and the Caribbean.
Between 1980-84, Amerikanis was chartered to Costa Line,
reverting to Chandris service from 1984. She was laid up in 1996.
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- A Chandris
America Lines card of "The American Lady".
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card was reissued later just with the Chandris name. Both cards
were printed in England.
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- A Chandris
card, printed in England.
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- A Fantasy
Cruises card, when under Panamanian registry. Note the revised
foremast and blue hull riband by this time.
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- A Chandris
Fantasy Cruises card, when under Panamanian registry. She has
received the hull riband, but not the new foremast.
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- The
same photo used on an oversized Chandris card with two itinerary
maps.
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- Another
over-sized card.
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- An over-sized
card with Caribbean itinerary.
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- An enlargement
of the image from the previous card.
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- Simplon Postcards sc2061, released March 1995.
- Photo:
© W.H.Moojen, 16th May 1993, leaving Ijmuiden, Netherlands.
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- Photograph
of Amerikanis, 11th June 1994, entering North Lock, Ijmuiden,
Netherlands
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© W.H.Moojen.
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- Chantry Classics postcard CC/S71.
- Photo:
© A.O.Wilhelmi 3rd, New York.
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- A Wil
Moojen postcard (printed by BOS-RIDDERKERK) of Amerikanis
(no serial number).
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photograph, by the publisher, was taken at Ijmuiden, 11/06/1994.
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- A Pieter
Oost postcard of Amerikanis (no serial number).
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of this card are available direct from the publishers at:- http://www.p-oostcards.nl/
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- Amerikanis
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Line charter: 1980-84)
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- Amerikanis
operated
in Costa colours under charter from 1980-84. She was owned by
Chandris Lines.
- A scan
of an official Costa postcard is shown below. Scan supplied by
Dimas Almada.
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