Ventura
Built 2008, P&O Cruises, UK (113 photos, short cruise from UK 2012)
Cruise industry news 2012
2012 – Royal Caribbean’s third Oasis-class vessel will be built by STX’s shipyard in France and will be delivered summer 2016. The cruise line has also opted for a second ship with a potential delivery of mid-2018. – Costa Cruises’ Costa Pacifica hit a pier in Marseilles on the morning of December 11, leaving an
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Cruise industry news 2011
2011 – P&O Cruises Australia has announced that is has sold Pacific Sun, which has sailed for the company since 2004, and before that operated as Jubilee for Carnival Cruise Lines. Rumour has it the buyer is a Chinese company and that she will sail from China’s mainland. – Paul Gauguin Cruises announced today that
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Winston Churchill (1967 – 2004) DFDS Seaways
8,658 GRT, loa 140m, 398 passengers. She spent all of her active life as a ferry sailing for DFDS, a large Danish ferry company. When she came of age, she was occaisionally used as a cruise ship and was used to open up new ferry routes, the Amsterdam-Newcastle route being one of these. After an
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Vasco da Gama
Built 1993, Nicko Cruises, Germany, 189 photographs, 2019 (a short trip from Hamburg to Antwerp)
Trollfjord
Built 2002. Hurtigruten, Norway 65 photographs (2004 ship visit in Amsterdam). She will be converted to a hybrid-powered expedition vessel in 2020-2021 and renamed Maud.
The Azur
Built 1971. Festival Cruises. She currently sails as Knyas Vladimir for Black Sea Cruises, Russia. 15 photographs (2001 ship visit in Barcelona). She seems to be laid up at the moment (spring 2023).
Superstar Virgo
Built 1999. Star Cruises, Singapore 127 photographs (2007 cruise from Singapore to Malaysia/ Thailand). She was later operated by Dream Cruises as Explorer Dream. Dream Cruises, owned by now-defunct Genting Hong Kong (owners Lim-family) ended operations in 2020 and she was put up for sale. The Lim family started a new cruise line Resorts World Cruises and
Sun Bay
Built-in 2001, Sun Bay Cruises currently sails as Xpedition for Celebrity Cruises 36 photographs (ship visit 2001 in Amsterdam)
Topaz (1956 – 2008) Peaceboat Organisation
21,406 GRT, loa 185m, 929 passengers. Built in 1956, in her first career as the Empress transatlantic liner Empress of Britain sailing on the Europe – Canada service she crossed the Atlantic 123 times. Her owners, Canadian Pacific Steamship sold her in 1965 to the Greek Line. Renamed Queen Anna Maria, she continued sailing the
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