FEDOR SHALYAPIN in Madeira

Black Sea Shipping Company of Odessa operated the largest passenger liners and cruise ships under the flag of the URSS. In this Vitor Rodrigues Faria photograph the FEDOR SHALYAPIN has just arrived on 31 December 1985. A fomer Cunarder, she was the IVERNIA of 1955 renamed FRANCONIA in 1962. Photograph from the Luís Miguel Correia collection