CHANDRIS LINES - S.S. VICTORIA - KEY RING
The key ring is in excellent condition.
Purchased on board The Victoria in 1979 when I cruised down the Red Sea on her.
The key ring weighs 15g.
The name tag itself measures 3.9 x 3.9cm.
Fully extended key ring top to bottom of name tag is around 7.5cm.

HISTORY MINUTE:
Chandris Lines was a Greece-based shipping company founded in 1960 to operate ocean liners between Greece and Australia.
Their first ship was the Union Castle liner "Bloemfontein Castle" in 1959 and was renamed Patris.
The Patris proved highly popular on the Greece—Australia service, and in 1960 Chandris Lines began looking for a second ship.
In September 1963 Chandris Line acquired the MATSON LINE ship SS LURLINE (1932).
Renamed RHMS Ellinis, the ship entered service with Chandris Line on the UK/Mediterranean/Australia route in December 1963.
A second ship joined the Chandris Line fleet in November 1964 when SS AMERICA was purchased from the UNITED STATES LINE.
Following rebuilding she entered service with Chandris Line in August 1965 as RHMS Australis, joining Ellinis on the UK-Australia service.
The Chandris liner service to Australia was closed down in late 1977 when Australis arrived in Australia as the last ship
carrying government-sponsored migrants.
From then on all migrant transport was handled by airplanes.