A painting by Charles E. Turner (1883-1965) of the 22,000-ton New Saxonia, built by John Brown and Company Ltd on the Clydebank, in Scotland and launched on 17 February 1954 by Lady Churchill. She made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Montreal in September of that year and stayed in the England to Canada trade until 1961. Cunard then transferred her to the Liverpool to New York trade for a brief period, before they refitted her as a cruise ship and changed her name to Carmania. Starting in 1962, she made frequent cruises from Florida to the Caribbean; in 1969 she ran aground on a sandbank in the West Indies. Needing major repairs and refitting Cunard put her up for sale in Southampton in 1972 and sold her to Russian interests. She was scrapped in 1999.
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