THE MOST INTERESTING SHIP IN THE WORLD? A FOUR NIGHT PASSAGE ON THE HARSHA VARDHANA
Presented by Tom Rinaldi
May 18, 2018 @ 6:00 pm
This January, WSS PONY Branch member Tom Rinaldi sailed out of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) aboard what in his view might well have been the most interesting ship in the world: the Shipping Corporation of India’s 9,700-gross-ton MV HARSHA VARDHANA, which entered service in 1974. If the HARSHA VARDHANA isn’t quite everyone’s idea of the world’s most interesting ship, at the time of Tom’s voyage she was indisputably one of the world’s very last true ocean liners, making line voyages carrying passengers and cargo across the Bay of Bengal. During his very entertaining and humorous program, Tom described his four-night passage from Kolkata to the Andaman Islands on an unusual voyage aboard this very unusual ship, which, as Tom noted in an epilogue, recently made her last voyage to the ship breakers.
(Photo credit: Tom Rinaldi)