Built in 1938 in Denmark Transilvania and her sistership Basarabia became the fastest ships servicing the Mideterranean.
After the World War II Basarabia got transferred to USSR as a war reparation and renamed "Ukraina". She served in Black Sea, Eastern Mediterranean and African routes till 1988.
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