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RMS Saxonia was a British passenger liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Scotland. She was built for the Cunard Steamship Company for their Liverpool-Montreal service. Saxonia was the first of four almost identical sister ships built by Browns between 1954 and 1957 for UK-Montreal service. The first two of these ships, Saxonia and Ivernia were rebuilt in 1962/3 as dual purpose liner/cruise ships. They were renamed Carmania and Franconia respectively and painted in the same green cruising livery as the Caronia.

Carmania continued transatlantic crossings and cruises until September 1967. This is when she closed out Cunard's Montreal service. At the end of 1966, both ships were painted white. From 1968, Carmania sailed as a full time cruise ship until withdrawal after arriving at Southampton on 31 October 1971. The Soviet Union-based Black Sea Shipping Company bought Carmania in August 1973. Carmania's name changed once again, this time to SS Leonid Sobinov. The ship was scrapped in 1999.