Saga Sapphire
Built 1980, Saga Cruises, UK, 138 photographs (2016 ship visit Southampton). She has been acquired by ANEX Tour from Turkey in August 2019 and will start sailing for them in 2021; she has been renamed Blue Sapphire.
Nomadic
Originally built alongside the mighty RMS Titanic in Belfast in 1911, the SS Nomadic was just like the ss Titanic designed by Thomas Andrews and built using the same design and similar luxurious finishes as the Titanic . She is exactly one quarter of the size of Titanic, and served for many years as a
Marina
Today, the Marina is docked in the port of Rijeka where she serves as a floating hotel, bar and restaurant. Originally, she was built in Denmark for ferry service in the Baltic in 1936 as Kronprinsessan Ingrid, who also was her godmother. Laid up during the war, she was used in 1945 to transport survivors
Malardrottningen
The history of the Malardrottningen starts in 1924 when she was built for Mr. Billings from New York. He named her Vanadis. At the time she was the world’s largest diesel-powered yacht.He later sold her to Woolworth-millionaire Frank W. Hutton who gave the vessel as a birthday present to his daughter Barbara for her 18th
Oceanic (1965 – 2012) Pullmantur Cruises
Oceanic was delivered to Home Lines in March 1965. She made a short series of transatlantic crossings and then switched to cruise service from New York to the Bahamas during summers and longer cruises to the Caribbean during the winter. Oceanic was a very successful cruise ship at the time, operating most of the time
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Ocean Monarch (1955 – 2014) Majestic International
Danae and Daphne were originally built in 1955 as the fast cargo liners Port Melbourne and Port Sydney for Port Line’s UK-Australia express service. Being fast ships, they were suitable for conversion to passenger ferries and in 1972 they were sold to Greek shipowner John Karras for conversion to car ferries, as Akrotiri Express and
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Rotterdam VI
Built 1997, Holland America Line, USA 166 photographs (ship visit 2014, Rotterdam). She has recently (July 2020) been sold to Fred Olsen Cruises and has been renamed Borealis.
Monterey (1952 – 2006) MSC Cruises
21,406 GRT, loa 185m, 929 passengers. She was built by Betlehem Steel, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA in 1952 as the Free State Mariner as a freighter for the US Marine Coprs. She was sold to Matson Lines in 1955, rebuilt into a passenger ship and used on the service from San fransisco to Australia. She also
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Monarch (1991 – 2020) Pullmantur Cruises
During construction in 1990 one third of the ship was lost due to an onboard fire. Nevertheless she was completed and sailed form 1991 until 2013 as Monarch of the Seas for Royal Caribbean Int. In 2007 she was the first cruise ship under the command of a woman-captain, Karin Stahre-Janson from Sweden. In 2013
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