When the Holland America Line left Rotterdam to move its offices to the US and decided to change the registry of their ships to New York and Hamilton,, a group of maritime enthusiasts, many of them former HAL employees wanted to found a new cruise line based in Rotterdam. They were led by Joost de […]
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1990 – French Paquet cruises purchases Ocean Cruise Lines. Paquet now owns three ships, Ocean Princess and Ocean Islander apart from their original vessel, the classic Mermoz. – Japan Cruise Line, the second Japanese company in the Japanese domestic market starts operations with their Orient Venus. – Celebrity Cruise starts operations. Owned by Chandris Cruises the
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1980 DFDS forms Scandinavian World Cruises to operate one day cruises out of Miami. Later the name of the company is changed to SeaEscape Cruises, still existing today. Conversion of the SS France to become the Norway is completed; she is the largest cruise ship in the world when she is introduced. Norwegian America Cruises
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All text and photographs (unless otherwise stated) © Paul Timmerman After WWII most surviving passenger ships were engaged as troop transports, and after their service in this role ended, they were returned to their pre-war owners. By 1947/48 most lines had their vessels back in service. Among these ships were a handful of full time
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All text and photographs (unless otherwise stated) © Paul Timmerman After the devastations of WWI several shipping companies switched vessels from liner service to cruising. Virtually all ships used for cruising in this period were existing liners which were modified and were more or less adapted to cruising. In the interwar-period, newbuildings were all liners
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Former Royal Yacht from 1953 until 1997. She made Queen Elizabeth II the world’s most travelled monarch. Her last offical voyage was in 1997 when Hong Kong, since 1841 a British colony, was handed back to the people of Hong Kong. After retirement from active service she she has opened as a maritime museum in Leith, Scotland.
Interior photographs of Minghua, ex-Ancerville in her current role at Sea World in Shenzhen, China here Compagnie de Navigation Paquet (CNP) approaching the end of its existence, still had the courage to order a newbuilding from the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, their first from this yard, even while prospects for the near future of
Ancerville – Cie de Navigation Paquet (1962 – 1973) Read More »
MS Bore is a museum and hotel ship docked permanently in Turku, Finland. She was originally built in 1960 by Oskarshamn shipyard in Sweden as the ferry SS Bore for Steamship Company Bore from Finland. She was the first ferry sailing between between Finland and Sweden where cars could drive aboard. Later she was known
Royal Viking-class cruise ship built in 1973 for Royal Viking Line as the 5-star luxury vessel Royal Viking Sea. She was sold in 1991 to Royal Cruise Line, Greece and renamed Royal Odyssey. Sailed from 1997 until 2002 for Norwegian Cruise Line and Norwegian Capricorn Cruise Line as Norwegian Star (1). In 2004 Phoenix Kreuzfahrten needed a replacement
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24800 GRT, loa 185m, 906 passengers. Built in 1957 as Sylvania for Cunard Line, and sold in 1968 to Sitmar Cruises. Renamed Fairwind. Converted from liner to cruise ship in 1971. Sold to Princess Cruises in 1988 and renamed Dawn Princess. V Ships bought the vessel in 1993 and chartered her out to German Phoenix Reisen who operated her as Albatros.
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