MS_Danielle_Casanova

MS <i>Danielle Casanova</i>

MS Danielle Casanova

French cruiseferry

MS Danielle Casanova, is a French cruiseferry operated by Corsica Linea. She was built at Fincantieri in Ancona, Italy for the French ferry operator SNCM as Mediterranee[1] but was renamed after her launch. She was put in 2002 on the Marseille–Corsica route,[2] replacing the former Danielle Casanova which was put to the Marseille–Algeria–Tunisia. The newer Danielle Casanova was itself later transferred to Corsica Linea's fleet after the bankruptcy of the SNCM in 2016. She then sailed on the Marseille–Tunisia–Algeria route.[3]

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Name

The ship is named after Danielle Casanova (9 January 1909 – 9 May 1943), a Corsican hero of the French Resistance during World War II who was captured and deported to Auschwitz where she died.[4]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "M/S Mediterranée (2002)".
  2. [2]
    "M/S Mediterranée (2002)".
  3. [3]
    "Your crossings aboard Danielle Casanova".
  4. [4]
    Moorehead, C. (2011). A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two. Random House of Canada. ISBN 978-0-307-36667-2.
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