Many thanks to Maddie Taylor of Tradewind Voyages UK for supplying photographs. Originally ordered by Star Clipper as the Flying Clipper, she was launched on June 10, 2017 and planned delivery was for the end of that year. This was later postponed to the first quarter of 2018, then again to the fall of 2019 and […]
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Built 2003. Holland America Cruises, USA 53 photographs (2003 ship’s delivery inaugural festivities in Hamburg)
Built 2009, Royal Caribbean International, USA, 303 photographs (2014 cruise western Europe)
Greg Mortimer is the first in a series of six Infinity-class (Ulstein CX103 design) expedition vessels. Sisterships will be Ocean Explorer (February 2021), Ocean Victory (2021-March), Sylvia Earle (October 2021), Ocean Odyssey (March 2022), Ocean Discoverer (September 2022) and Ocean Albatros (October 2022t) Four more vessels will follow. Their owner SunStone Ships Inc. charters these vessels out to different companies. During construction the charterer can have the design
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Built 2006. Norwegian Cruise Line, USA 203 photographs (2006 inaugural cruise from Rotterdam to Southampton)
On May15 of May 1972, a newbuilding for Det Norske Amerikalinje A/S of Oslo Norwegian America Line, laid down as yard number 39, was launched at the Swan Hunter Shipbuilders shipyard at Wallsend on Tyne, England. Swan Hunter was famous for having delivered a long list of great liners like for example the RMS Mauretania and th
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Built 2005. Norwegian Cruise Line, USA 190 photographs (2006 cruise in the Western Mediterranean)
Built 2006. Norwegian Cruise Line, USA 181 photographs (2009 ship visit in Zeebrugge)
