MS Bore is a museum and hotel ship docked permanently in Turku, Finland. She was originally built in 1960 by Oskarshamn shipyard in Sweden as the ferry SS Bore for Steamship Company Bore from Finland. She was the first ferry sailing between between Finland and Sweden where cars could drive aboard. Later she was known […]
Royal Viking-class cruise ship built in 1973 for Royal Viking Line as the 5-star luxury vessel Royal Viking Sea. She was sold in 1991 to Royal Cruise Line, Greece and renamed Royal Odyssey. Sailed from 1997 until 2002 for Norwegian Cruise Line and Norwegian Capricorn Cruise Line as Norwegian Star (1). In 2004 Phoenix Kreuzfahrten needed a replacement
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24800 GRT, loa 185m, 906 passengers. Built in 1957 as Sylvania for Cunard Line, and sold in 1968 to Sitmar Cruises. Renamed Fairwind. Converted from liner to cruise ship in 1971. Sold to Princess Cruises in 1988 and renamed Dawn Princess. V Ships bought the vessel in 1993 and chartered her out to German Phoenix Reisen who operated her as Albatros.
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With a project named Tahiti Nui, French shipowner Service et Transports (ST) planned to build a cruise ship based in Tahiti in the 1990’s. A decade earlier, ST had already ordered two large sail-cruisers, from Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre (ACH) which were operated from the start by Club Med as Club Med 1 and sister ship Club Med
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The start of passenger ship interior design between the end of the 19th century up to World War I During the mid nineteenth century travelling by ocean liner was seen as a highly uncomfortable and dangerous mode of transportation. A well-known example hereof is described by novelist Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) when he boarded
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On May 4th 2023, the Naming Ceremony of Swan Hellenic’s third ice-class cultural expedition cruise ship, SH Diana, took place in Amsterdam. SH Diana was named by luxury travel visionary and icon Valerie Ann Wilson, Founder and CEO of Valerie Wilson Travel, with Swan Hellenic senior management including CEO Andrea Zito , local dignitaries, VIP guests and
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Photos of Ambition‘s interior and of her naming ceremony here On February 11, 2023, Ambassador Cruise Line’s second vessel was officially renamed Ambition by godmother two times Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson OBE. A series of speeches given in her theatre The Palladium was started by the line’s CEO Christian Verhounig, followed by commercial director Phil Gardner. Then, captain
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Principal passenger/ cruise ships retired since 1985 1985 Ship/ Ex-name(s)/ Year built/ Reason retired Columbus-C, ex-Kungsholm, Europa, 1953, Broken up Regina Prima, ex-Panama, President Hoover, Regina, 1938, Broken up 1986 Ship/ Ex-name(s)/ Year built/ Reason retired Kentavros, ex-Barnegat, 1941, Broken up Mikhail Lermontov, 1972, Sunk, Minhgua, ex-Ancerville, 1962, Hotel ship Turkmenia, 1961, fire Uganda, 1962,
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