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| | Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Southern Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) |
 | | One of the most innovative passenger ships of the 1950s, the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's cruise ship Southern Cross was designed for round-the-world cruises with more than 1,000 passengers in a single class. |
 | | The itinerary of her first voyage illustrates the pattern of the vacation cruise in the 1950s: Trinidad, Curaçao, Panama Canal, Tahiti, Fiji, Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne, Fremantle, Durban, Capetown, Las Palmas, and back to Southampton. |
 | | Two years later, Southern Cross was purchased by the Greek Ulysses Line, and in 1975 she was recommissioned as the Calypso. |
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