Fedor Shalyapin, 21,406 GRT, loa 185m, 929 passengers. Built as Ivernia in 1955 for Cunard Line for service on the transatlantic run. Later renamed Franconia. One of a series of four vessels (the above mentioned Albatros being one of these). Sold to the USSR in 1973, she divided her days between cruising and liner voyages […]
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Built 2007, Cunard Cruises, United Kingdom, 208 photographs (2022 cruise)
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Estonia, 4,800 GRT, loa 122m, 333 passengers. Between 1958 and 1964, a series of no less than nineteen small passenger ships were built in East Germany for employment in the USSR passenger fleet. The government of the USSR frequently used these vessels for military or scientific purposes. However normally they were employed on domestic routes
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Ellinis, 18,163 GRT, loa 193m, 1668 passengers. In 1931 the Lurline was launched and the Matson Line placed her on the San Francisco-Los Angeles-Honolulu service. In WWII she served as a troop transport. After the war she was refitted to her former glory and redelivered to Matson Line in 1948. In 1963 she suffered turbine
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SS Great Britain was by far the largest deep sea vessel afloat when she was launched, and she was the first steel ship fitted with propellors and the first propellor driven ship to cross the North Atlantic in 1845. After a couple of years she changed owners and was employed for the next thirty years
When in service the oldest seagoing passenger ship in the world. Doulos started life in 1914 as the Medina, a freighter. In 1948 she was sold to shipping line Genaviter and renamed Roma. She was completely rebuilt as a passenger ship, an emigrant carrier. She sailed in this role until 1953 when she was auctioned
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Island Venture was taken into service by Flagship Cruises in 1974. She joined he sister Sea Venture (built 1972). In 1974 already, she was sold toP&) subsidiary Princess Cruises along with her sister ship. They were renamed Island Princess and Pacific Princess. Both appeared in the 1970stelevision series The Love Boat. The Island Princess stayed
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Not present as a static ship anymore, but part of the interior fittings have been rescued from the ship when it went for scrap in 1974, and are still on display at the Hoogovens museum, the Hoogovens being one of the largest steel manufacturers in Europe, located in Ymuiden, The Netherlands, where the former Felix Roussel
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Costa Victoria was the first of two Victoria-class cruise ships ordered by Costa Cruises from the German shipyard Bremer Vulkan (her sister was intended to become Costa Olympia, but was completed as Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Sky instead). She sailed for Costa Cruises (owned by Carnival Corporation & plc) from 1996 until 2020. When built
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Built 1952 for the coastal express service along the Norwegian coast, the Hurtigruten as Hakon Jarl Sold in 1982 to become a hotel and restaurant vessel in the port of Oslo. Later hotel/ party centre in Antwerp, Belgium, but as the docks were being redeveloped she had to be relocated. A new berth could not
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