M/N "MONTSERRAT". Compañía Trasatlántica Española. Advertising postcard

M/N MONTSERRAT
Compañía Trasatlántica Española

Advertising postcard.

The Montserrat was built in Baltimore (USA) in 1945, as a cargo ship, for the United States Navy, and left the shipyard under the name Wooster Victory. Between 1948 and 1949 she was used to bring hundreds of Jewish refugees in China during WWII to the new state of Israel. In 1950 she was bought by the Sitmar Line and converted into a cargo and passenger ship with the name Castel Verde, and in 1957 she became property of the Compañía Trasatlántica Española, with the name Montserrat. The ship had capacity for 825 passengers, and served the line between Spain and Central America. She had several breakdowns, the most important being in August 1970, when she was making the trip from Venezuela to Tenerife, with 600 passengers, and broke down in the middle of the Atlantic. She had a temporary repair done in Curaçao, and then she continued doing the line. In February 1973 she completed her last voyage, disembarking 46 passengers from England in Vigo. Afterwards, she was taken to Castellón, where she was scrapped.

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