A Voyage Pattern Emerges
With 5 years of experiencing Caronia's resounding success, from the 6th year onward a voyage pattern and intended schedule for the whole year emerges, as follows…
- Sterling Cruise
- Southampton to New York via Bahamas in 14 or more days
- Great World Cruise
- usually Eastbound; 100 to 112 days; start/end in NYC
- Spring Med. Cruise
- from NYC; around 30 days; ending in Southampton
- Positioning Crossing
- Southampton to New York
- North Cape Cruise
- from NYC; around 30 days; ending in Southampton
- Positioning Crossing
- Southampton to New York
- Summer Med. Cruise
- around 30 days; start/end in NYC
- Autumn Med. & Black Sea
- from NYC; around 45 days; ending in Southampton
- Annual Overhaul/Refit
- Southampton or Liverpool
The Caronia transits the Panama Canal. There's just no mistaking that funnel is there?
This was the intended pattern, which meant that whatever month of the year it was, you could quickly place where in the World Caronia might be. However, this schedule wasn't fully implemented until 1961 because the “Green Goddess” couldn't yet be entirely released from her transatlantic duties during the busy summer months.
By that time, it was possible to introduce the Summer Mediterranean Cruise and extend the Autumn Mediterranean Cruise to include visits to exciting new ports in the Black Sea.
Although Caronia was famed as a World Cruise liner, on a daily pro-rata basis it was her North Cape and Autumn Mediterranean Cruises that were the most expensive!
1955 was the first year when Caronia's annual overhaul was not undertaken in Liverpool. Although she would return on occasions, most future overhauls would be carried out in Southampton or at Harland and Wolff's yard in Belfast.
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