The history of the Malardrottningen starts in 1924 when she was built for Mr. Billings from New York. He named her Vanadis. At the time she was the world’s largest diesel-powered yacht.He later sold her to Woolworth-millionaire Frank W. Hutton who gave the vessel as a birthday present to his daughter Barbara for her 18th […]
Oceanic was delivered to Home Lines in March 1965. She made a short series of transatlantic crossings and then switched to cruise service from New York to the Bahamas during summers and longer cruises to the Caribbean during the winter. Oceanic was a very successful cruise ship at the time, operating most of the time
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Danae and Daphne were originally built in 1955 as the fast cargo liners Port Melbourne and Port Sydney for Port Line’s UK-Australia express service. Being fast ships, they were suitable for conversion to passenger ferries and in 1972 they were sold to Greek shipowner John Karras for conversion to car ferries, as Akrotiri Express and
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Built 1997, Holland America Line, USA 166 photographs (ship visit 2014, Rotterdam). She has recently (July 2020) been sold to Fred Olsen Cruises and has been renamed Borealis.
21,406 GRT, loa 185m, 929 passengers. She was built by Betlehem Steel, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA in 1952 as the Free State Mariner as a freighter for the US Marine Coprs. She was sold to Matson Lines in 1955, rebuilt into a passenger ship and used on the service from San fransisco to Australia. She also
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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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