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Reina del Mar was a 13 824 GRT cruise ship which was built by Vickers-Armstrongs in 1950. She served with Furness Withy for fifteen years then with a Bulgarian company for three years renamed Varna. She spent much of the 1970s laid up and was renamed Venus and then Riviera. In the early 1980s she was renamed Reina del Mar and refitted for further use as a cruise ship but a fire gutted her and she was scuttled on 1 June 1981 when a further fire broke out.

* SS Reina del Mar (1956 - 1975) paquebot de The Union Castle Line * MS Reina del Pacifico, (en service en 1936), paquebot de la P. S. N.1

Builders of the SS Reina del Mar are Walker and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Ship Name
Ocean Monarch
Reina del Mar
Riviera
Varna
Venus
Ship Power
Two steam turbines
Status
Caught fire 28 May 1981
sank 1 June 1981
Ship Fate
1981.0
Ship Crew
c250
Maiden Voyage
1951-05-03
Ship Capacity
414.0
Ship Completed
March 1951
Ship Tonnage
DWT 4
905
Ship Original Cost
2500000.0
Ship Country
Great Britain
Ship Way Number
119
Ship Launched
27
Ship Registry
Piraeus
Varna
Ship Out Of Service
Laid up 1966-67
Laid up 1970-73
Laid up 1973-78
Ship Launch
1950-07-27
Ship Honors
American Academy of Designing Gold Medal
Ship Maiden Voyage
3
Builder
Walker
Newcastle upon Tyne
Ship Route
New York - Nassau - Bermuda
Cost
2500000.0
Category
1950 ships
Cruise ships
Maritime incidents in 1981
Passenger ships of Bulgaria
Passenger ships of Greece
Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
Ship fires
Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean
Tyne-built ships

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