SS Ausonia, later known as the SS Ivory and Aegean Two while in service with her last owners, Golden Star Cruises, was a cruise liner belonging to Louis Cruise Lines operating in the Mediterranean. She operated mostly cruise service during her 52 years of life. She was the last vintage Italian ocean liner in service when she was retired from service in September 2008 and beached for dismantling in March 2010.
Ausonia arriving in Genoa, on July 29, 1989
Ausonia in Venice, October 1972
Ivory laid up in Eleusis, August 16, 2008.
Celestyal Cruises is a succession to Louis Cruises and Louis Cruise Lines. The Cruise line was a subsidiary of Louis plc until November 2021 when Searchlight Capital Partners took a majority share within the Cruise Line.
Celestyal Cruises
MV Aquamarine anchored off Patmos, Greece in July 2008.
MV Sea Diamond was acquired in 2006, but sank off Santorini in 2007.
Image: Celestyal Discovery