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Nieuw Statendam is the newest ship of the Pinnacle class, following her sister Koningsdam. Nieuw Statendam  is the sixth in a long line of Statendam ships, starting in 1898 with the first vessel to bear this name. In 1910 and 1929 Statendam II and III followed. Statendam IV sailed for Holland America form 1957 onwards for a quarter of a century. […]

During the 1960’s NCL started operating their first vessel on the so-called milk-run, from Florida to the Caribbean. The company started out as Norwegian Caribbean Line and was led by Knut Kloster. In the beginning Kloster had teamed up with Ted Arison, an Israeli business man who would later build  a huge cruise ship empire

Originally built as a dual purpose ocean liner/ cruise ship for transatlantic service between Hamburg and New York and the remainder of the year as a cruise ship, the Hamburg only sailed in cruise service. Hamburg Atlantic Line had ordered her in November 1966 from the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg. During construction of the Hamburg the yard merged with

Before the second world war, the two largest German passenger shipping companies, Norddeutscher Lloyd and Hamburg Amerika Line both had ships running from the main land to the small isle of Helgoland. Helgoland is situated in the German Bight, in the southeastern corner of the North Sea, 69 km sailing distance from Cuxhaven. It has

Since 2009, RCL’s quartet Oasis-class ships, Oasis-, Allure-, Symphony- and Harmony of the Seas hold the title of being the largest cruise ships ever constructed and with a building price of  around $ 1.4 billion each, being a most valuable export article to leave Finland and France (the Oasis and Allure were built at STX Finland now Meyer Turku,

The spectacular new Celebrity newbuilding Celebrity Edge, to be followed by Celebrity Apex in 2020 and two more in 2022, is recognizable from afar by the orange structure that hangs from her side. This is as Richard Fain, CEO of Royal Caribbean had specified: “our new vessel needs to be recognized from as far away as possible”. So

Viking Cruises is rapidly expanding in the luxury segment of the cruise industry, It currently (2019 nvo) has 6 active ships and yet another 12 vessels on order until 2027. Built between 2015 and 2027 with delivery of at least one ship a year, Viking is set to become the world’s leading luxury cruise line. The company is

Today, Marco Polo is one of the oldest cruise ships in active service. She  dates from 1964 when her keel was laid down at the East German yard of Mathias Thesen. The following year, she was completed and started her lengthy career as Alexandr Pushkin (Alexandr Pushkin was a Soviet writer, killed at the age of 38 in a

Albert Ballin started his career with HAPAG (Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien Gesellschaft) as manager of the passage department and within two years rose to Managing Director. Ballin noted that the company’s flagship Auguste Viktoria spent all winter in lay up, thus not making any money. Of course the reason for this was that passengers avoided the inclement

Caronia is one of the first luxury cruises ships of the postwar era. The (British) cruising market was divided mainly between three vessels at the time, for budget cruises the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and later Union Castle Line operated the Reina del Mar, for the middle class there was Royal Mail’s Andes and for long (expensive) cruises Caronia was introduced