Length over all 231.7 m; breadth 27.5 m; 736 passengers (when built);
built 1961 by J. Brown & Co., Clydebank / UK, as TRANSVAAL CASTLE for Union Castle Line, London; 1966 renamed S.A. VAAL; 1977 sold to Festivale Maritime, Panama, and converted into cruise ship FESTIVALE for Caribbean cruises; 1996 she became ISLANDBREEZE, 2000 THE BIG RED BOAT III and 2003 THE BIG BOAT, before being scrapped in the same year;
photo taken in 1967; scanned from negative film;