7,883 grt; 2,510 dwt; 670 passengers; 100 cars.
Operator: Stockholms Rederi A/B Svea, Stockholm, Sweden.
Built 1966 by Lindholmens Varv AB, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Propulsion: twin-screw with 4 x six-cylinder, four-stroke Lindholmens-Pielstick 6PC2-2L400 developing 10,080 bhp (total) at 520 rpm. Speed: 18 knots
1969-to Svenska Lloyd A/B, Gothenburg as HISPANIA; 1972-SAGA; 1978-KNOSSOS; 1988-CAPTAIN ZAMAN II; 2003- ANCONA. 2011-to breakers at Alang, India 12/1.
Photographed in November, 1966 by the late Frederick Bull, arriving for Tilbury Dock for the first time on the ro-ro/passenger ferry service to Gothenburg, replacing the lift-on/lift-off SUECIA and BRITANNIA, which had operated the service since 1929