Cunard Line: An artist's view of the ship from her port side as she steams through blue seas. Line issued and unused. The career of the CARONIA perhaps best sums up the fate of post-war transatlantic ships. She was built for long elegant cruises and a little transatlantic service. She was so popular among the ritzy set that one lady lived on board for years. Yet by the mid-1960s she became too expensive to operate and could no longer compete. In the early 1970s she sat forlorn at a New York pier where she actually received a parking ticket for being a nuisance. Finally in 1974 she started the long tow to the breakers, only to snap her cable and land on the rocks in Guam. There she was a hazard to navigation and had to be cut up in place.