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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Canberra, 49,070 GRT, loa 249m, 960 passengers. Canberra was built in 1961 by Harland an Wolff in Belfast for P&O lines. She was put on the Australian run. When passenger loads diminished in liner service, she was laid up in and there were rumours she might go for scrap only 13 years old! However, she
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Royal Viking Star entered service in 1972 for owners Royal Viking Cruises, a Norwegian company operating 5-star cruise ships. The company proved to be too small to be successful in the long run and was taken over by Norwegian Cruise Line in 1991. She was renamed Westward. Three years later she was transferred to subsidiary
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built 1966. Operated from 1970 to 1983 during summertime as ferry Venus for Det Bergenske Dampskipsselskab and in winter in cruise service from Holland and the UK to the Canary Islands as Black Prince for Fred Olsen. In 1983 the ferry service was taken over by DFDS and in 1985 by Norway Line. In 1985
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Built 2004, Cunard line, UK 145 photographs (2011 crossing from Hamburg to Southampton)
When construction started on Royal Princess (III) in 2010, she followed a series of 9 Grand Class Princess vessels, of which Grand Princess (1998) was the first and both Coral Princess and Island Princess which were both introduced in 2002/ 2003. The name Royal Princess had already been used for two former ships of the line, the first one being Royal Princess of 1984. Today she still
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Funchal’s last owner, Signature Living, a hotel chain from Liverpool, had plans to operate the veteran liner/ cruise ship as a hotel in central London and later as a party club ship, sailing from Liverpool to the Mediterranean. But these plans did not materialize and still in lay up and for sale, her future looks
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Club Med is a single ship cruise line, as it only operates Club Med 2. Club Med started out as a holiday resort company in 1950; it was founded by Belgian entrepreneur Gerard Blitz. Accommodations were basic, as guests would camp in huts and tents and a central area was available for meals, activities and entertainment.
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Stockholm IV was ordered by Swedish American Line (SAL) in 1944 to replace the ageing Drottningholm of 1904, and was launched two years later on September 9, 1946 at the Götaverken shipyard in Gothenburg, Sweden. She was partly financed out of the proceeds of the sale of Stockholm III to the Italians in 1941 who used her as a troopship
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Still under construction and due for delivery in spring 2021, Le Commandant Charcot will be the first electric hybrid icebreaker/ cruise ship powered by both liquefied natural gas (LNG) and marine diesel and, being equipped with the latest generation battery-packs, she will also be able to sail using electrical power only for short periods of time. She
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