Royal Viking Star entered service in 1972 for owners Royal Viking Cruises, a Norwegian company operating 5-star cruise ships. The company proved to be too small to be successful in the long run and was taken over by Norwegian Cruise Line in 1991. She was renamed Westward. Three years later she was transferred to subsidiary […]
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built 1966. Operated from 1970 to 1983 during summertime as ferry Venus for Det Bergenske Dampskipsselskab and in winter in cruise service from Holland and the UK to the Canary Islands as Black Prince for Fred Olsen. In 1983 the ferry service was taken over by DFDS and in 1985 by Norway Line. In 1985
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Built 2004, Cunard line, UK 145 photographs (2011 crossing from Hamburg to Southampton)
When construction started on Royal Princess (III) in 2010, she followed a series of 9 Grand Class Princess vessels, of which Grand Princess (1998) was the first and both Coral Princess and Island Princess which were both introduced in 2002/ 2003. The name Royal Princess had already been used for two former ships of the line, the first one being Royal Princess of 1984. Today she still
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Funchal’s last owner, Signature Living, a hotel chain from Liverpool, had plans to operate the veteran liner/ cruise ship as a hotel in central London and later as a party club ship, sailing from Liverpool to the Mediterranean. But these plans did not materialize and still in lay up and for sale, her future looks
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Club Med is a single ship cruise line, as it only operates Club Med 2. Club Med started out as a holiday resort company in 1950; it was founded by Belgian entrepreneur Gerard Blitz. Accommodations were basic, as guests would camp in huts and tents and a central area was available for meals, activities and entertainment.
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Stockholm IV was ordered by Swedish American Line (SAL) in 1944 to replace the ageing Drottningholm of 1904, and was launched two years later on September 9, 1946 at the Götaverken shipyard in Gothenburg, Sweden. She was partly financed out of the proceeds of the sale of Stockholm III to the Italians in 1941 who used her as a troopship
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Still under construction and due for delivery in spring 2021, Le Commandant Charcot will be the first electric hybrid icebreaker/ cruise ship powered by both liquefied natural gas (LNG) and marine diesel and, being equipped with the latest generation battery-packs, she will also be able to sail using electrical power only for short periods of time. She
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In 1951 and 1952 Messageries Maritimes ordered a quartet of combination passenger-cargo liners of the MD-type, La Bourdonnais, Jean Laborde, Ferdinand de Lesseps and Pierre Loti. Two of them would become well-known cruise ships in their later lives. Messageries Maritimes was a French Company founded in 1852 by a shipowner from Marseille M. Rostand together with
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One of the first cruises in history is said to have departed from Hamburg in 1891. It was the Auguste Viktoria which was on of HAPAG’s largest ships and mostly out of work during winter time as not many passengers wanted to experience the angry North Atlantic in winter time with its ferocious weather. So Albert
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