M.S. TRANSILVANIA

Romanian Maritime and Fluvial Navigation Company (NAVROM)

Constantza, Romania

Romanian postcard, . No date.

Built:

1938 by Burmeister and Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Technical:

Overall length: 129.6 m
Beam: 17.4 m
Draft: 5.7 m
Gross Tonnage: 6672 tons
Passengers: 400
Power: 2 Burmeister & Wain diesels, 14400 HP
Service Speed: 18 knots

Operating Routes:

Mostly Black Sea and the Mediterranean with very occasional worldwide sailings.

Sister Ships:

M.S. Ukraina (BLASCO, Soviet Union. (Former M.S. Basarabia of NAVROM)

Former Names:

None.

Later Names:

None

Owners:

- 1938-1979: Romanian Maritime and Fluvial Navigation Company (NAVROM), Constantza, Romania.

History and Current Status:

Grounded in the Danube River in 1979. Scrapped later.

Here is an excerpt about her from the book "Passenger Liners" by Laurence Dunn, kindly provided to me by Michelle Linder, curator of the Australian National Maritime Museum: "Transilvania originally carried 80 first, 100 second and 230 third class passengers. These were housed in the superstructure and 2 continuous decks, below which were 4 holds, these served by electric cranes as well as derricks. The main first class public rooms were arranged beneath the bridge, the music and smoke rooms being on the promenade and the dining saloon on the upper deck. Special features of the cabin accommodation were 2 large deluxe suites on the boat deck. First class and deluxe cabins occupied the after part of the promenade deck and lower forward extension of the superstructure."

(email all info about her to ata.bilgili@dartmouth.edu)

Notes:

I have never seen M.S. Transilvania! The reason that she is here in the Flotsam'n Jetsam database is because she is the sister of M.S. Ukraina and that I really like her design as a vessel from the 1930's. They both were exceptionally handsome ships, the kind that I would not have mind restoring if I were a tycoon!

Links:

Line Drawings:

From the book "Soviet Bloc Merchant Ships" by Bruno Bock and Klaus Bock, 1981.

Other Pictures:

TRANSILVANIA

 From "Great Cruise Ships and Ocean Liners from 1954 to 1986: A Photographic Survey"
by William H. Miller.
Thanks to Aris Bilalis from Greece for the scan.

Postcards from My Collection:

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