This month, much of the talk in the ocean liner and cruise ship community has been about Cunard’s latest addition to the fleet, Queen Victoria. She’s the first purpose-built cruise ship (please don’t call her an ocean liner) for Cunard in 30 years. That ship 30 years ago was Cunard Princess.
Luís Miguel Correia reports on his blog Ships & The Sea that Classic International Cruises has acquired the 15,833 GT, 432-berth Ocean Monarch from Majestic International Cruises. (Recently she has operated for a related company, Monarch Classic Cruises.) The ship will reportedly be renamed Princess Daphne. CIC already owns her sister, Princess Danae. (The sisters [...]
Today’s issue of The New York Times features an article about Majestic America Line’s 81-year old Delta Queen, set to be retired after her 2008 season due to Congress’ refusal to continue her exemption to the Safety at Sea Act of 1966, which would ban her due to her wooden superstructure.
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This month ShipParade’s Bart de Boer takes a look at a ship after my own heart: Phoenix Reisen’s 24,220 GT, 650-passenger Maxim Gorkiy. Originally built in 1969 as Deutsche Atlantik Linie’s Hamburg and dubbed “The Space Ship” both for her distinctive flying-saucer styled funnel as well as her exceptionally spacious interiors, the ship took on [...]
Tomorrow Cunard’s legendary Queen Elizabeth 2 will depart Southampton on a historic cruise around Britain celebrating the 40th anniversary of her launch by HM the Queen in Clydebank, Scotland on 20 September 1967.
Departing from Southampton, she will make a maiden call at Newcastle-upon-Tyne before continuing on to South Queensferry (Edinburgh), Greenock (Glasgow) and Liverpool. The [...]
