The TS/S Stefan Batory was an ocean liner built in Holland in 1952 under the name of SS Maasdam, initially used to service the Dutch East Indies

Dutch East Indies

The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....

 by the Holland America Line

Holland America Line

The Holland America Line is a cruise shipping company. It was founded in 1873 as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company , a shipping and passenger line. Headquartered in Rotterdam and providing service to the Americas, it became known as Holland America Line...

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She was bought from Holland in 1968 and began service as a Polish ocean liner in April 1969 as a replacement for the obsolete MS Batory

MS Batory

The M/S Batory was a large ocean liner of the Polish merchant fleet, named after Stefan Batory, the famous sixteenth-Century king of Poland....

, both named after a king of Poland Stefan Batory

Stefan Batory

Stephen Báthory was a Hungarian noble Prince of Transylvania , then King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania . He was a member of the Somlyó branch of the noble Hungarian Báthory family...

 (1533-1586).

After she was refitted and renamed she became the flagship of the Polish Ocean Lines in the 1970s and 1980s and mainly sailed from Gdynia—Copenhagen—Rotterdam—London—Montreal—Southampton—Rotterdam—Copenhagen—Gdynia. She remained in service until 1988 and was the last regularly scheduled transatlantic liner. She was scrapped in Aliağa

Aliaga

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, Turkey in May 2000.

Technical data

• 10 decks
• Tonnage — 15,024 BRT
• Length — 153.4 m (503 ft).
• Width — 21.0 m (69 ft).
• Height — 21.0 m (69 ft).
• Speed — 16.5 knots
• Passengers — 39 1st class; 734 tourist class.
• Crew — 336.
• Engines — gas powered steam turbine.
• Stabilizers to reduce heeling (sailing).