High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The RMS Saxonia was a 21,637 gross-ton passenger ship of the Cunard Line. Built in 1954 and launched on February 17, 1954 by Lady Churchill. She served with Cunard until 1962 when she was refitted with her sister and renamed the RMS Carmania. She carried on serving as the Carmania on transatlantic crossings and various cruise routes until she was laid up in 1971. In August 1973 she was bought by the Soviet Union-based Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed SS Leonid Sobinov.