Pictures and renderings provided by USP Marketing PR on behalf of NCL (copyright NCL) Summer 2022 Norwegian Cuise Line’s new Norwegian Prima will make its debut on the high seas. This new ship will be notable smaller then the line’s Breakaway-Plus vessels, as she will carry 3,200 guests compared to 4,200 guests on board the breakaway-Plus ships […]

The Princesa Isabel was launched on January 18 1961 at Cia. Euskalduna, Olaveaga in Bilbao, Spain and was delivered to her Brazilian owners Cia. Nacional of Nav. Costeira in August 1962.  This small 9,696GRT vessel was very pleasing to the eye with her flared bows, modern looking and well-balanced superstructure and midships placed dark blue funnel with

NCL America, a division of  NCL operates Pride of America, a unique vessel as she is the first American ocean going cruise ship in almost half a century since the Argentina of Moore Mc Cormack Lines was taken into service in 1958. Originally she was the first of a planned series of six ships of Project America. These

In 1992 George Poulides, the son of Fotis Poulides, who is well-known in the shipping industry as the director of Red Cross Maritime Services during the war, together with some business companions founded Festival Cruises. As their first ship, they acquired the Azur from Chandris Cruises in 1994. At the time, Chandris was busy closing down its

Many thanks to Sea Cloud Cruises for providing documentation for this article. See interior photos of Sea Cloud 2 (2001) , sister ship to the original Sea Cloud She resembles the proverbial cat with nine lives, as the sailing yacht Sea Cloud, built in 1931 at the Krupp shipyard in Kiel, has had a chequered life, but she

The Prinsendam was introduced in 1973, the year Holland America celebrated its centenary year. HAL, also introduced their Veendam and Volendam that year which were the former Moore-McCormack liners  Argentina and Brasil (both 1958).  Prinsendam, yard number 606, was delivered by the Dutch yard De Merwede situated in Hardinxveld-Giessendam in 1973. Four Werkspoor 8-cylinder diesels drove two controllable-pitch propellors. She was also witted with

The second expedition cruise ship of the Mystic Cruises fleet Photographs kindly provided by Nicko Cruises (nicko-cruises.de) In 2017 Mystic Cruises signed a contract with the Portuguese shipyard WestSEA located in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, with delivery in 2020 and 2021 for two more vessels in their planned 10-vessel series, World Voyager and World Navigator. They succeed the

She started life as a ferry but later as Ariadne, Bon Vivant and Ariane became a popular cruise ship The Swedish Svenska Lloyd or the Swedish Lloyd needed additional capacity for their very profitable ferry service between Gothenburg to London (Tilbury). They operated the Britannia, Saga and Secia at the time but to satisfy demand a fourth ship was needed. So