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Eastern Steamship Line (1965)
The Eastern Steamship Line (later Eastern Cruise Line), was a cruise line operating second hand ships on short Bahamas and Caribbean cruises from the 1960s to the late 1980s. The name was a revival from the famed original Eastern Steamship Lines that sailed the eastern seaboard in the early to mid twentieth century. History In 1954 Frank L. Fraser purchased the two final ships of the original Eastern Steamship Lines, ''Yarmouth(Queen of Nassau,'' and later renamed ''Yarmouth Castle)'' and ''SS Yarmouth Castle, Evangeline'' both for what's then known as the Eastern Shipping Corporation. In 1958 the ''Yarmouth'' sailed to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, for one last summer season, going on government subsidies. They would be joined by the SS ''Bahamas Star'' in 1959, and SS ''Ariadne'' in November 1960. In May 1961, owner Frank L. Fraser had passed full control of the company to William R. Lovett(of Winn-Dixie supermarkets), with the name being changed to Eastern Stea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the "New World" in 1492 when he landed on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Cruise Lines
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Cruise Lines
A cruise line is a company that operates cruise ships and markets cruises to the public. Cruise lines are distinct from passenger lines which are primarily concerned with transportation of their passengers. Cruise lines have a dual character; they are partly in the transportation business, and partly in the leisure entertainment business, a duality that carries down into the ships themselves, which have both a crew headed by the ship's captain, and a hospitality staff headed by the equivalent of a hotel manager. Because of mergers and consolidations, a cruise line may also be a brand of a larger holding corporation. For example, as noted below, Carnival Cruise Line and Holland America Line are cruise lines within the larger parent corporation Carnival Corporation & plc. This industry practice of using the brand, not the larger parent corporation, as the cruise line is also followed in the member cruise lines in Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA); the listing of cruise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empress Of The Seas
''Empress'' (formerly ''Nordic Empress'' and ''Empress of the Seas'') is a cruise ship owned by Cordelia Cruises, an Indian cruise line. She is the sole ship of her class. She entered service with then-Royal Caribbean International in 1990, transferred to Pullmantur Cruises in 2008, and then returned to Royal Caribbean International in 2016. In December 2020, she was retired from the Royal Caribbean fleet and sold to Cordelia Cruises. History The ship was ordered by Admiral Cruises and was intended to be called the ''Future Seas'' and join the other Admiral ships, the and the . However, when Royal Caribbean merged with Admiral in 1987, the Admiral brand was dissolved and the newbuild (still under construction) was incorporated into the Royal Caribbean fleet. A few signature Royal Caribbean brand elements were added, including the Viking Crown and Windjammer Cafe. The ship was originally named ''Nordic Empress'' and was the final Royal Caribbean ship whose name did not end with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Caribbean International
Royal Caribbean International (RCI), also formerly known as Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL), is a cruise line brand founded in 1968 in Norway and organised as a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group since 1997. Based in Miami, Florida, United States, it is the largest cruise line by revenue and second largest by passengers counts. In 2018, Royal Caribbean International controlled 19.2% of the worldwide cruise market by passengers and 14.0% by revenue. It operates the five largest passenger ships in the world. As of January 2022, the line operates twenty-six ships and has four additional ships on order. History Royal Caribbean Cruise Line was founded in 1968 by three Norwegian shipping companies: Anders Wilhelmsen & Company, I.M. Skaugen & Company, and Gotaas Larsen. The newly created line put its first ship, '' Song of Norway'', into service two years later. A year later, the line added ''Nordic Prince'' to the fleet and in 1972 it added ''Sun Viking''. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Admiral Cruises
Admiral Cruises was a cruise line that operated cruises on the Eastern and Western coasts of the United States. It was formed in 1986 as a merger of three small cruise lines and was acquired by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line in 1988. The brand was discontinued in 1992 and its ships were retired and sold. History In 1986, Admiral Cruises was formed as a merger of three small cruise lines: Eastern Cruise Lines, Western Cruise Lines Western may refer to: Places * Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia * Western world, countries that ..., and Sundance Cruise Lines. Each line only operated one ship. At its peak, it had a fleet of three ships, the ''Azure Seas'', the ''Emerald Seas'', and the ''Stardancer''. In 1988, the cruise line announced it had ordered a new cruise ship called the ''Future Seas''. Admiral Cruises merged with Royal Caribb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Island Escape
MS ''Viking Serenade'' was launched as the cruiseferry MS ''Scandinavia'' in 1981. In 1985 she was renamed MS ''Stardancer'' and in 1990 MS ''Viking Serenade'' before being converted to a cruise ship in 1991. She became MS ''Island Escape'' in 2002 being renamed once more as MV ''Ocean Gala'' in 2015. She was finally renamed MV ''Ocean Gala 1'' before being scrapped in 2018. History She was built in 1982 by Dubigeon-Normandie S.A., Nantes, France for Scandinavian World Cruises (a subsidiary of DFDS) as the cruiseferry MS ''Scandinavia''. At the time of her construction, she was the largest cruiseferry in the world. After being withdrawn from Scandinavian World Cruises, she briefly sailed for DFDS Seaways. Between 1985 and 1990, she sailed for Sundance Cruises and Admiral Cruises as MS ''Stardancer''. In 1990, the ship was sold to Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and renamed MS ''Viking Serenade''. Between January and June 1991, she was converted into a genuine cruise ship at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Southern Cross (1954)
SS ''Southern Cross'' was an ocean liner built in 1955 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the United Kingdom-based Shaw, Savill & Albion Line for Europe—Australia service. In 1975 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and subsequently sailed under the names ''Calypso'', ''Azure Seas'' and ''OceanBreeze'' until 2003 when she was sold for scrap to Ahmed Muztaba Steel Industries, Chittagong, Bangladesh. The ''Southern Cross'' was the first passenger ship of over 20,000 gross register tons to be built that had the engine room (and as a result of that, the funnel) located near the stern, rather than amidships.The Great Ocean Liners - Southern Cross retrieved 1. 3. 2019 She started a trend of aft-engined ships, and today most passenger ships are built this way. ''Southern Cross'' was also the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandris Line
Chandris Line was a Greece-based shipping company founded in 1960 by Anthony Chandris to operate ocean liners between Greece and Australia.#Plowman, Plowman (2006–1). pp. 5–6. Initially the company also traded under the names ''Greek Australian Line'', ''National Greek Australian Line'' and ''Europe-Australia Line''.#Maber, Maber. pp. 297–299. Following a period of expansion, in 1974 Chandris Line merged with Chandris Cruises—a separate company founded in 1960 by Anthony Chandris' brother Dimitri Chandris to operate cruises in the Mediterranean#Plowman, Plowman (2006–1). p. 126.—to form Chandris Line Chandris Cruises. After 1977 the company concentrated solely on cruising and was rebranded Chandris Cruises. In 1985 Chandris Cruises acquired Fantasy Cruises, and subsequently their North American operations were rebranded as Chandris Fantasy Cruises.#Plowman, Plowman (2006–1). p. 187. The company ceased trading in 1996.#Plowman, Plowman (2006–1). p. 214. The funnels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America. Situated largely on the Caribbean Plate, the region has more than 700 islands, islets, reefs and cays (see the list of Caribbean islands). Island arcs delineate the eastern and northern edges of the Caribbean Sea: The Greater Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago on the north and the Lesser Antilles and the on the south and east (which includes the Leeward Antilles). They form the West Indies with the nearby Lucayan Archipelago ( the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands), which are considered to be part of the Caribbean despite not borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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