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MV Porto
The MV ''Porto'' was a Portuguese-owned cruise ship. She had operated by Portuscale Cruises until sold for scrap in 2017. The ship was built in 1965, as the ''Istra''. She was purchased by Arcadia Shipping Company, Lisbon in 2000 and was completely reconstructed from the hull up, being renamed ''Arion''. She was put in service with Classic International Cruises On 17 September 2012 reports announced that she was detained in Montenegro for failure to pay fuel costs. Fellow ships ''Athena'' and ''Princess Danae The MS ''Princess Danae'' was a cruise liner. The ship was designed by Harland & Wolff as a freighter in Belfast built and ran in 1954 as ''Port Melbourne'', a fast cargo liner for Port Line's UK-Australia express service. She was planned to be re ...'' were detained for similar issues. Following the liquidation of Classic International Cruises, ''Arion'' was purchased by a Portuguese entrepreneur and remained flagged under the Portuguese flag. The ship was renamed ''Por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic International Cruises
Classic International Cruises was a British-Australian owned shipping company operating five luxury cruise ships, most notably their flagship, the rebuilt ocean liner MV Azores, MS Athena. The company only operated cruise ships that are former ocean liners, the classic ships of their day (hence the company's name). History Classic International Cruises was seemingly founded in 1985, with the purchase of the MV Funchal, MV ''Funchal'' as the Arcalia Shipping Company Ltd, which eventually became Classic International. They operated the one ship until 1994, when they bought the ''Princess Danae''. The ''Princess Danae'' entered service with an all-white hull and a sailing ship logo on her funnel. ''Funchal'' was given a yellow and blue striped funnel and a white hull, but by 2000 her livery was changed to what now all Classic International ships have. Since 2000 they have purchased 3 ships, ''Arion'', ''Athena'' and ''Princess Daphne'', the near-identical sister of ''Princess Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuscale Cruises
Portuscale Cruises was a Portugal, Portuguese shipping company. It was the first Portuguese company specifically dedicated to maritime cruises. Portuscale Cruises spent 20 million euros in the refurbishment of its fleet of four cruise ships, bought from defunct Classic International Cruises in early 2013. As of 2014, the ''MV Funchal, Funchal'' was in active service, the ''MV Azores, Azores'' was under charter to Cruise & Maritime Voyages, CMV, the ''MV Lisboa, Lisboa'' was under refit due to technicalities with the vessel, but was sold to an unknown Italian buyer and shortly after beached at Alang, India for scrap. As of late 2016, Portuscale Cruises had gone charter, leaving the cruise market operated under its own brand. ''MV Funchal, Funchal'' was laid up at ''Matinha'', with the Portuscale logos on the funnel painted over until 2021, when was transferred to docks nearby for a hotel conversion. The only ship remained in service was the ''MV Azores, Azores'', which was unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maritime Call Sign
Maritime call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to ships and boats. All radio transmissions must be individually identified by the call sign. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. History One of the earliest applications of radiotelegraph operation, long predating broadcast radio, were marine radio stations installed aboard ships at sea. In the absence of international standards, early transmitters constructed after Guglielmo Marconi's first trans- Atlantic message in 1901 were issued arbitrary two-letter calls by radio companies, alone or later preceded by a one-letter company identifier. These mimicked an earlier railroad telegraph convention where short, two-letter identifiers served as Morse code Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliağa
Aliağa is a town and a district of Izmir Province in the Aegean Region of Turkey. The town is situated at about north of Izmir. Aliağa has a large port, mainly for oil and bulk cargo. Its economic activity is based on tourism, shipbreaking, and an oil refinery. Overview and history Aliağa lies in the heart of ancient Aeolia. The town was named after a member of the influential Karaosmanoğulları ayan family, Karaosmanoğlu Ali Ağa, who owned an estate here. It was a township in Menemen district in 1937 and became a municipality in 1952. It finally separated from Menemen and became a district on 21 January 1982. The remains of the ancient city of Myrina are within the boundaries of the district, located at about fifteen km north of Aliağa centre. Another ancient site is the yet unexplored Gryneion, near Şakran township on the peninsula, to the south of the center town, also at a distance of . Visitors also often use the road from Aliağa to visit the remains of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a East Thrace, small portion on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turkish people, Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its list of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently Settler, settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruise Ship
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports-of-call, where passengers may go on Tourism, tours known as "shore excursions". On "cruises to nowhere" or "nowhere voyages", cruise ships make two- to three-night round trips without visiting any ports of call.Compare: Modern cruise ships tend to have less hull strength, speed, and agility compared to ocean liners. However, they have added amenities to cater to water tourism, water tourists, with recent vessels being described as "balcony-laden floating condominiums". As of December 2018, there were 314 cruise ships operating worldwide, with a combined capacity of 537,000 passengers. Cruising has become a major part of the tourism industry, with an estimated market of $29.4 billion per year, and over 19 million passengers carried worldwide annually . The industry's rapid growth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, or flying boat. The hull may open at the top (such as a dinghy), or it may be fully or partially covered with a deck. Atop the deck may be a deckhouse and other superstructures, such as a funnel, derrick, or mast. The line where the hull meets the water surface is called the waterline. General features There is a wide variety of hull types that are chosen for suitability for different usages, the hull shape being dependent upon the needs of the design. Shapes range from a nearly perfect box in the case of scow barges to a needle-sharp surface of revolution in the case of a racing multihull sailboat. The shape is chosen to strike a balance between cost, hydrostatic considerations (accommodation, load carrying, and stability), hydrodynamics (speed, power requirements, and motion and behavior in a seaway) and special considerations for the ship's role, such as the rounded bow of an icebreaker or the flat bottom of a landing craft. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istra IMO 6419057 P Venedig 10-1972 , an association football club in Croatia
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Istra may refer to: Places *Istra (river), a river in Russia * Istra, Istrinsky District, Moscow Oblast, a town in Istrinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia * Istra, Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast, an inhabited locality named Istra in Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast *Istra Reservoir, a reservoir in Russia near Millerhof palace *Istra (Rauma), a river in Rauma municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway *''Istra'' or Istria, a peninsula in the Adriatic Sea *Istria County, the Croatian portion of the Istria peninsula Sports *FC Istra, an association football club in Russia *NK Istra, an association football club in Croatia *NK Istra 1961 Nogometni klub Istra 1961 ( en, Istra 1961 Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Istra 1961, or simply Istra 1961 or Istra, is a Croatian professional football club from Pula, currently playing in the Croatian First League. It is a commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Arion (1)
The MV ''Porto'' was a Portuguese-owned cruise ship. She had operated by Portuscale Cruises until sold for scrap in 2017. The ship was built in 1965, as the ''Istra''. She was purchased by Arcadia Shipping Company, Lisbon in 2000 and was completely reconstructed from the hull up, being renamed ''Arion''. She was put in service with Classic International Cruises On 17 September 2012 reports announced that she was detained in Montenegro for failure to pay fuel costs. Fellow ships ''Athena'' and ''Princess Danae The MS ''Princess Danae'' was a cruise liner. The ship was designed by Harland & Wolff as a freighter in Belfast built and ran in 1954 as ''Port Melbourne'', a fast cargo liner for Port Line's UK-Australia express service. She was planned to be re ...'' were detained for similar issues. Following the liquidation of Classic International Cruises, ''Arion'' was purchased by a Portuguese entrepreneur and remained flagged under the Portuguese flag. The ship was renamed ''Por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funchal And Porto Docked In Cais Da Matinha (Porto)
Funchal () is the largest city, the municipal seat and the capital of Portugal's Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, making it the sixth largest city in Portugal. Because of its high cultural and historical value, Funchal is one of Portugal's main tourist attractions; it is also popular as a destination for New Year's Eve, and it is the leading Portuguese port on cruise liner dockings. Etymology The first settlers named their settlement Funchal after the abundant wild fennel that grew there. The name is formed from the Portuguese word for fennel, ''funcho,'' and the suffix ''-al'', to denote "a plantation of fennel": History This settlement began around 1424, when the island was divided into two ''captaincies.'' The zones that would become the urbanized core of Funchal were founded by João Gonçalves Zarco who settled there with members of his family. Owing to its geographic location, the site became an importan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Athena (2005)
MV ''Astoria'' is a ship that was constructed as the transatlantic ocean liner ''Stockholm'' for Swedish American Line, and rebuilt as a cruise ship in 1993. Ordered in 1944, and commenced service in 1948, at 73 years old, she is the oldest passenger liner still sailing in deep water routes. As ''Stockholm'', she was best known for an accidental collision with SS Andrea Doria, ''Andrea Doria'' in July 1956, resulting in the sinking of the latter ship and 46 fatalities off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. During her seven decades of service she has passed through several owners and sailed under the names ''Stockholm'', ''Völkerfreundschaft'', ''Volker'', ''Fridtjof Nansen'', ''Italia I'', ''Italia Prima'', ''Valtur Prima'', ''Caribe'', ''Athena'', and ''Azores'' before beginning service as ''Astoria'' in March 2016. ''Astoria'' sailed with Cruise & Maritime Voyages until 2020 when the company suspended operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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