GALILEI: 1963 - Ill-fated 1979 Florida cruises Cosulich Line The SCYTHIA

The SCYTHIA

making this Furness deck plan of a Cunard ship very rare indeed

ANNA SALEN had spent several months ferrying visitors to the 1952 Helsinki Olympics

She replaced the ANTILLES which met an unfortunate ending on a Caribbean reef

Home Lines bought the ship in 1948 to operate on the transatlantic run

GALILEI: 1963 - Ill-fated 1979 Florida cruises Cosulich Line The SCYTHIAItalian Line Cruises: A twelve page brochure promoting sunny Caribbean cruises aboard the GALILEI during 1979 and 1980. But the outlook for the service was anything but rosy. The ship had just undergone a lengthy retrofit that had converted her from ocean liner GALILEO GALILEI into cruise ship GALILEI. In March of 1979 she started cruising out of Port Everglades. Inside the brochure are several generic ship photos plus destination info, itineraries,