During construction in 1990 one third of the ship was lost due to an onboard fire. Nevertheless she was completed and sailed form 1991 until 2013 as Monarch of the Seas for Royal Caribbean Int. In 2007 she was the first cruise ship under the command of a woman-captain, Karin Stahre-Janson from Sweden. In 2013 […]
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MS Kronprinsesse Martha, was ordered in 1928 and built by the International Shipbuilding and Engineering Co in Danzig and delivered in 1929. She was named after the Swedish crown princess Martha who had married the Norwegian prince Olav V. In 1939 she runs aground and lists to starboard side where all her starboard cabins are
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Home Lines ordered her in 1982 from the CNIM-yard, France and took her into service as Atlantic. In 1988 sold to Premier Cruises and renamed Starship Atlantic. MSC Cruises acquired her in 1997 and she stays with them until 2013 when the fleet is being moderrnized. During a repositioning voyage from Durban to Genoa in
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Kungsholm (4) was built by John Brown, Clydebank in 1966 for owners Swedish America Line. After the demise of liner service to America she was sold to Flagship Cruises in 1975, she was not renamed. In 1979 P&O acquired her to replace the aging Arcadia. She was rebuilt in Bremen, lost one of her funnels
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Built 1993, Compagnie Francaise de Croisieres, France, 275 photographs (2023 Mediterranean cruise)
Built 1992. Radisson Seven Seas Cruises, 19 photographs (1999 ship visit in Amsterdam). Ship currently sails on casino cruises from Hong Kong as China Star.
Hikawa Maru is a Japanese passenger liner built by the Yokohama Dock Company forNippon Ysen Kaisha Line (NYK Line). She sailed on the Pacific route beteen Yokohama, Seattle and Vancouver. During WII she served as a hospital ship and as one of two Japanese ships to survive the war. After the war she was used
Originally built as Aleksandr Pushkin in 1965 by Mathias-Thesen-Werft, East Germany for the Soviet Union’s Baltic Shipping Company for liner service between Europe and Canada and cruise service. After being extensively rebuilt she sailed for Orient Lines from 1993 to 2008 as their Marco Polo. UK-cruise line Cruise & Maritime Voyages and its German subsidiary
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21,406 GRT, loa 185m, 929 passengers. Best known for the cruise service she performed for 20 years when chartered by her Russian owners to German operator Phoenix Reisen from 1988 – 2008, this handsome vessel had originally been planned as a liner/ cruise ship by the company who ordered her from Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft, Hamburg.
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Built 1985 for Carnival Cruise Line as Holiday, one of three Holiday-class ships. She stayed with the company until 2009 and was transferred to subsidiary Ibero Cruceros as Grand Holiday. In 2015 sold to UK operator CMV Cruises. CMV went bankrupt in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2020 she was
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