Built as a cargo-passenger vessel under yard No 971 by Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, U.K. for Cia Argentina de Navegacion. Dodero, (Dodero Line), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
04 April 1950 launched under the name 17 DE OCTUBRE.
Tonnage 12.634 grt, 7.206 net, 19.089 dwt, dim. 161.5 x 21.7m.
Powered by 4 geared Vickers steam turbines, 14.500 shp., twin propellers, speed 19 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 96 first class, crew 145.
Reefer capacity 310.198 cubic feet to carry frozen meat.
October 1950 delivered to owners.
First used in the liner service from London to Buenos Aires, maiden voyage November 1950 from London, later the service was extended from Hamburg.
1955 After the fall of the Peron Government, the Dodero Line ceased operations, and the management of the fleet was taken over by Flota Argentina de Navegacion de Ultramar (Fanu) and the 17 DE OCTUBRE was renamed in LIBERTAD.
When in 1962 the FANU and the Flota Merchante del Estado merged, to form the Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas (ELMA), the LIBERTAD was transferred to the new company.
1963/1964 Refitted in a 400 tourist class vessel, instead of the 96 first class. Tonnage 12.653 grt.
She made regular cruise voyages to the Antarctic, and from 25 till 27 January 1970 she visited the Argentinean polar base Almirante Brown.
15 January 1974 laid up at Villa Constitucion.
1975 Sold for scrap, and she was scrapped in Campana, Argentina, where she arrived 05 August 1975.
Source: Log Book. Register of Merchant ships completed in 1950. South Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor. Great Passenger Ships of the World, Vol. 4 by Arnold Kludas.
(Argentina, 1972, 25c, SG1397).