BATORY
Builder: Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy.
Completed: April 1936.
Gross tonnage: 14287.
Dimensions: 526ft x 71 ft. Depth 38ft.
Engines: Two nine-cylinder, two-stroke, single-acting Burmeister & Wain diesel.
Screws: Twin.
Watertight bulkheads: Nine.
Decks: Five.
Normal speed: 18 knots.
Passenger accommodation: 76 first and 740 tourist class. (Accommodations are combined into a single class of 800 when pleasure-cruising.)
Maiden voyage: Gdynia–Copenhagen–New York on May 18, 1936
Employed in the Gdynia–Copenhagen–Southampton–Halifax–New York services and cruising. The Halifax call being eliminated eastbound.
Re¬quisitioned by the allies in 1939 as a transport and did not resume scheduled sailings until May 1947 from Gdynia to New York as a tourist-class ship.
Commenced her last voyage from New York to Southampton, Copenhagen and Gdynia in January 1951 after having been denied docking facilities at the port of New York on the stipulation that she came from behind the Iron Curtain.
Refitted for a new service from Gdynia to Southampton, via Suez Canal, Bombay and Karachi in August 1951.
The Batory operated in this service until 1956 when she was overhauled at Bremerhaven, Germany, and placed in the Gdynia-Copenhagen–Southampton–Montreal service on August 26, 1957, and to Halifax in winter.
A call at Le Havre was inaugurated in 1961.
Withdrawn from service on June 18, 1969, and sold to the Gdansk District Board for use as a floating hotel at Gdynia, Poland.
Sister ship: Pilsudski.
SG1040c, 318,1692.