MS Batory
MS Batory ca 1937-1939 | |
| History | |
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| Poland | |
| Name | Batory |
| Namesake | King Stefan Batory |
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| Port of registry | Gdynia |
| Ordered | 29 November 1933 |
| Builder | Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Monfalcone |
| Yard number | 1127 |
| Laid down | 1 May 1934 |
| Launched | 3 July 1935 |
| Acquired | 23 April 1936 |
| Maiden voyage | 18 May 1936 |
| In service | 1936 |
| Out of service | 1 July 1969 |
| Identification |
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| Nickname(s) | Lucky Ship |
| Fate | Became a hotel ship in Gdynia, 1969. Sold back to Polish Ocean Lines in 1970, scrapped between 1971 and 1972 in Hong Kong. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 160.4 m (526.25 ft) |
| Beam | 21.6 m (70.87 ft) |
| Draught | 7.5 m (24.6 ft) |
| Decks | 4 + 3 in superstructure |
| Installed power | two Sulzer 2SSA 9-cylinder diesel engines, 12 680 hp (12 500 hp from April 1947) |
| Propulsion | 2 propellers |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
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MS Batory was a Polish ocean liner which was the flagship of Gdynia-America Line, named after Stefan Batory, the sixteenth-century King of Poland. She was the sister ship of MS Piłsudski. After Allied wartime service, mainly under the UK Admiralty, she became in 1951 the flagship of the Polish Ocean Lines and the Polish merchant fleet. She is often described as the "Pride of the Polish Merchant Marine". Batory along with her sister Piłsudski were the two most popular ocean liners of Poland.