I apologize for the quality, but I took this shot (as with some others I am posting) when I was a child with no photography knowledge and a cheap and indifferent camera.

Launched 15 March 1959 at Split by Brodogradiliste Split as hull no. 150 for Jadranska Slobodna Plovidba, Split. 460’8” x 61’8” x 39’5;” 9050 gt, 5476 nt; 6-cylinder FIAT Diesel, 6500-bhp. Later *Sea* (1985). Broken up at Kaohsiung 1986.

Jadranska Slobodna launched a Mediterranean-Great Lakes service in 1960 using some of the best-looking vessels to ever enter the lakes, in my opinion. Although the older and smaller *Zenica* and *Vares* were favorites of mine, the *Marko Marulić,* as even this poor shot taken in a pouring rain demonstrates, was in a class by herself in terms of looks. She is shown practically new at the International Steamship Terminal at 95th Street and the Calumet River, Chicago, Illinois USA, in August 1960.