12,059 grt; 12,180 dwt
Operator: The Cunard Steamship Co Ltd. Port of registry: Glasgow. Charterer/funnel marking: Salénrederierna, Stockholm, Sweden.
Built: 1973 by Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Aalborg, Denmark. Yard no 198.
Main engine: nine-cylinder, two-stroke Burmeister & Wain 9K84EF developing 23,200 bhp at 119 rpm for a speed of 23.5 knots.
Built for Paravon Shuipping Co & Others, Glasgow (managers: Whitco Marine Services Ltd) as CHRYSANTEMA (British flag).
1976-sold to Cunard, renamed SAMARIA (as photo).
1986-PEGASUS; 95-PELAGOS (Bahamas flag).
2000-sold to breakers at Alang, India.
Photographed at Sheerness, Medway 17/7/1982.