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After receiving the sad but not unexpected news that Louis Cruises had sold their cruise ship IVORY, the former 1957-built AUSONIA, for scrap, I knew another trip to Alang was in my future. As the one-time pride of Adriatica Lines Venice to Alexandria service was being reactivated for her final…
On August 27, CLIPPER ADVENTURER (ex ALLA TARASOVA), a 1975-built passenger ship with 128 passengers and 69 crew members on board, ran 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…
Things at Seattle-based niche market cruise line Cruise West seem to be in flux as the company offices have reportedly shut down, leaving just an outgoing message that states the line is not accepting reservations for future cruises. Cruise West cites it is restructuring under new ownership but will still…
P&O Cruises VICTORIA continued her successful U.K.-based cruise program until being withdrawn and sold in 2002. The ship made a final cruise from Southampton to Gibraltar, Barcelona, Port Mahon, Ajaccio, Toulon, Santa Margherita, Livorno and Civitavecchia, where some of her artwork and fittings were removed prior to being handed over…
As a MaritimeMatters reader, you may know Peter Knego for his amazingly detailed ship blogs, SEA TREKS and DECKED! The roving blogger from internet cafe’s across the globe regularly brings you the latest on new and vintage passenger ships. But when he’s not doing all that, he is trying to…
As this MONA LISA/KUNGSHOLM Decked! is revisited eight years on, the lovely liner is dead-headed to Piraeus to destore fittings prior to being sold. It appears that two attempts to bring the ship to Sweden (the first to her former home port of Gothenburg and the second, to Stockholm) have…
Southampton restores Titanic Engineers Memorial with a ceremony today, marking the bravery of the engineers who died when the ill-fated RMS TITANIC sank 98 years ago, en route to New York, after colliding with an iceberg. The memorial was originally unveiled in 1914 by Sir Archibald Denny, president of the…
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…
