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Ancerville – Cie de Navigation Paquet (1962 – 1973)

Interior photographs of Minghua, ex-Ancerville in her current role at Sea World in Shenzhen, China here Compagnie de Navigation Paquet (CNP) approaching the end of its existence, still had the courage to order a newbuilding from the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, their first from this yard, even while prospects for the near future of […]

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Bore

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

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Part 1: ocean liner interior design history, 1880 – 1914, The Floating Palaces

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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Ambition – Ambassador Cruise Line naming ceremony, Newcastle May 11, 2023

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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