The world’s first purpose-built cruise ship The earliest recorded cruise was an around the world voyage by sailing ship in 1845 that was promoted by the Hamburg shipowner Rob M Sloman. Thomas Cooke later organized so called excursions, cruises to the Mediterranean where passengers often stayed in hotels during their stay in port. See the […]
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Hospital ships are normally out of scope of this website, but the Mercy Ships organization and its ships crewed by volunteers deserve to be in the spotlights as they bring humanitarian aid around the world to those who badly need it. From February 26 to March 15, their newest ship, the Global Mercy, just delivered and
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2001 Ship/ Ex-name(s)/ Year built/ Reason retired Amerikanis, ex-Kenya Castle, 1952, Broken up Classica, ex-Provence, Enrico C(osta), Symphony, Aegean Spirit, 1951, Broken up Millennium Queen, ex-Princesa Leopoldina, 1962, Broken up Pearl of Scandinavia, ex-Athena, LangkapuriStar, Aquarius, 1989, Car ferry Sea, ex-Gripshholm, Navarino, Sao Paolo, Samantha, Regent Sea, 1957, Sunk Star of Venice, ex-Leda, Nalja, Albatros,
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Many thanks to Havila Kystruten for providing the photographs for this article, visit www.havilavoyages.com Per Saevik, founder and chairman of the Havila Group, was born in a family of fishermen. He started his career at sea in the fishing industry and soon bought his own fishing boat. His company Havila Group now employs thousands of
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1991 Ship/ Ex-name(s)/ Year built/ Reason retired Ionian Express, ex-Svea Corona, 1975, Fire Oceanos, ex-Jean Laborde, Mykinai, Ancona, Brindisi Express, Eastern Princess, 1952, Sunk The Fiesta, ex-Theodor Herzl, Carnivale, Freeport, Vera Cruz I, Sun Ambasador, 1957, Fire 1992 Ship/ Ex-name(s)/ Year built/ Reason retired Delta Filipine Dream, ex-Towada Maru, 1966, Floating hotel Grigoruy Ordjonokidze, 1959, Broken
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Ship’s name, owner, gross tonnage and yard are shown Vessels with a planned delivery in Q1 Seabourn Pursuit, Seabourn Cruises, 23,000GRT, T. Mariotti yard, Italy Final delivery July 2023 Following sister Seabourn Venture which was taken into service just a year ago, Seabourn Pursuit is the line’s second newbuilt expedition vessel. She can navigate both polar regions, being classified PC6
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When the Holland America Line left Rotterdam to move its offices to the US and decided to change the registry of their ships to New York and Hamilton,, a group of maritime enthusiasts, many of them former HAL employees wanted to found a new cruise line based in Rotterdam. They were led by Joost de
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1990 – French Paquet cruises purchases Ocean Cruise Lines. Paquet now owns three ships, Ocean Princess and Ocean Islander apart from their original vessel, the classic Mermoz. – Japan Cruise Line, the second Japanese company in the Japanese domestic market starts operations with their Orient Venus. – Celebrity Cruise starts operations. Owned by Chandris Cruises the
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1980 DFDS forms Scandinavian World Cruises to operate one day cruises out of Miami. Later the name of the company is changed to SeaEscape Cruises, still existing today. Conversion of the SS France to become the Norway is completed; she is the largest cruise ship in the world when she is introduced. Norwegian America Cruises
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All text and photographs (unless otherwise stated) © Paul Timmerman After WWII most surviving passenger ships were engaged as troop transports, and after their service in this role ended, they were returned to their pre-war owners. By 1947/48 most lines had their vessels back in service. Among these ships were a handful of full time
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