1970 Royal Viking Line founded, a new company that aims to form a fleet of five star luxury vessels, sailing on world-wide itineraries. Three ships are ordered at once. HAPAG-Lloyd formed from Norddeutscher Lloyd and Hamburg Amerika Line. 1971 Holland America Line (HAL) ends liner services from Rotterdam, the Netherlands to New York and switches […]
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All text and photographs (unless stated otherwise) © Paul Timmerman Passenger shipping in the first half of the 19th century was limited to liner service mainly from Europe to the U.S. and to the Far East. The first notable passenger line was thee British Cunard Line which started a regular service from the UK to New
Birger Jarl was built in Sweden in 1953 for Redieri AB Svea. In 1973 she was sold to Jakob Lines, was renamed SS Bore Nord and converted into a ferry, sailing between Stockholm, Helsinki and Turku. In 1978 she was bought back by the Ånedin Line (named after the British TV series The Onedin Line)
Built in 1972 for Hellenic Mediterranean Lines as their first cruiseship Aquarius, she sailed for them until 1987 when she passed into Yugoslavian ownership and was renamed Adriana. She was mainly chartered out during this period. In 1997 she was sold to Marina Cruises and operated by Plein Cap Cruises until 2008. Then, until 2010 she cruised
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181 photographs (2010 western Mediterranean cruise)
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Normally, ships like Turbinia are not within the scope of this website, but she played such an important role in the development of (passenger) ship propulsion that she can’t be left out. as many of the most famous liners and cruise ships were fitted with Turbinia‘s revolutionary steam turbine engines invented by British engineer Charles Algernon Parsons (1854
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