HM The Queen To Name QUEEN ELIZABETH

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth will be naming Cunard’s latest vessel, the QUEEN ELIZABETH in Southampton on Monday, October 11, 2010, just prior to the ship’s maiden sailing on October 12. This will be the fourth Cunarder named by Her Majesty, who launched the SS CARONIA while still a princess in 1947. She also christened the [...]

Adieu RENAISSANCE! — Updated

August 30, 2010 UPDATE: The MAESTRO is now officially beached behind the remains of WINNER 5 (ex AUSONIA). MAESTRO will be cleared for breaking in a couple weeks, allowing WINNER’s demolition to be completed. Once that occurs, she will be dragged closer to the shore, stripped and cut down. Meanwhile, another Japanese-built ferry has arrived [...]

Scotland’s CITY OF ADELAIDE To Australia

Scotland’s Culture Minister Fiona Hyslop announced that the preferred bidder for the 1864-built clipper ship CITY OF ADELAIDE would be the City of Adelaide Preservation Trust, thereby returning the ship to the Australian city after which she was named. Ms Hyslop said: “The ‘City of Adelaide’ has an illustrious past shared by two nations, Scotland [...]

CLIPPER ADVENTURER Hits Uncharted Rock

CLIPPER ADVENTURER (ex ALLA TARASOVA), a 1975-built passenger ship with 128 passengers and 69 crew members on board, has run aground on an uncharted rock in the Arctic Ocean while on a cruise through the Northwest Passage. No injuries were reported and the passengers have been transferred to Kugluktuk, a former copper mine town of [...]

MV MINGHUA Lives On

MINGHUA, (ex ANCERVILLE, SEA WORLD) by Martin Cox (first appeared on MaritimeMatters in 2000. Updated in 2004, 2007, 2010) Built as ANCERVILLE Compagnie de Navigation Paquet, Marseilles Built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique, St. Nazaire 14,224 gt 551 x 72 ft 2 12-cyl diesels, Burmeister & Wain from builders Twin Screw, 22 1/2 knots Passengers: Four [...]