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Radiance-class Cruise Ship
The ''Radiance'' class is a class of four cruise ships operated by Royal Caribbean built between 2001 and 2004 at Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. The class was preceded by the and succeeded by the . ''Radiance''-class ships have a gross tonnage of 90,090, being smaller than the preceding ''Voyager'' class. Built for cruising in cooler climates, this class differs in design from the ''Voyager'' and ''Freedom'' classes, and some aspects influenced the . The ''Radiance'' class is built to Panamax form factor, allowing them to pass through the Panama Canal. The power plant on all ships consists of environmentally friendlier but less fuel efficient gas turbines. The ''Radiance''-class ships have over of glass, glass exterior viewing elevators, over 700 balcony staterooms, two-level glass windowed dining rooms, alternative restaurants, a retractable glass roof over a pool, an outdoor pool, as well as the first self-leveling billiard tables at sea. During their refurbishm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meyer Werft
Meyer Werft is one of the major German shipyards, headquartered in Papenburg at the river Ems. Founded in 1795 and starting with small wooden vessels, today Meyer Werft is a builder of luxury passenger ships. 700 ships of different types have been built at the yard. Its "Dockhalle 2" is the third largest shipbuilding hall and the building with the fifth-largest usable volume in the world as of 2022. Meyer Werft has been owned and managed by the Meyer family for seven generations. Since 1997, it has been part of the Meyer Neptun Group, together with Neptun Werft in Rostock. In 2014, the company added the Turku shipyard in Finland to the group. The shipyard is an anchor on the European Route of Industrial Heritage. History The shipyard was founded at the beginning of 1795 by ''Willm Rolf Meyer'' as a yard specializing in small wooden vessels. ''Josef Lambert Meyer'' began building iron vessels in 1874. Until 1920 there were more than 20 dockyards in the Papenburg area, but toda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brilliance Of The Seas
Brilliance of the Seas is a cruise ship belonging to the Royal Caribbean's . ''Brilliance of the Seas'' is operated by RCL UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Brilliance of the Seas has a maximum capacity of 2,543 passengers and carries 848 crew. Areas of operation ''Brilliance of the Seas'' undertakes Western Caribbean cruises out of Tampa, Florida during the winter season and cruises Vancouver to Alaska in the summer. Now it also offers cruises to the Bahamas and to the Caribbean. Incidents Heeling incident On December 11, 2010, ''Brilliance of the Seas'' left Rhodes, Greece on a cruise around the eastern Mediterranean, and experienced very high seas and wind gusts. At around 2:15 AM, it was reported that in a cluster of ships rushing to enter the port of Alexandria, a freighter turned in front of ''Brilliance of the Seas'', forcing the ship's captain, Erik Tengelsen, to slow below the necessary to maintain her stabilisers' function. The ship sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Cruises
Princess Cruises is an American cruise line owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. The company is incorporated in Bermuda and its headquarters are in Santa Clarita, California, Santa Clarita, California. As of 2021, it is the List of cruise lines#List of cruise lines by size, second largest cruise line by net revenue. It was previously a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises, and is currently under Holland America Group within Carnival Corporation & plc, which holds executive control over the Princess Cruises brand. The line has 15 ships cruising global itineraries that are marketed to both American and international passengers. The company was made famous by the American television series ''The Love Boat'', in which its ship ''MS Pacific, Pacific Princess'' was featured. Since her introduction in 2019, ''Sky Princess (2019), Sky Princess'' has operated as the line's flagship. History Early years: 1965–1974 Princess Cruises began in 1965, when founder Stanley McDonald chartered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland America Line
Holland America Line is an American-owned cruise line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. Holland America Line was founded in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and from 1873 to 1989, it operated as a Dutch shipping line, a passenger line, a cargo line and a cruise line operating primarily between the Netherlands and North America. As part of the company's legacy, it was directly involved in the transport of many hundreds of thousands of emigrants from the Netherlands to North America. Holland America has been a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation since 1989. History Dutch shipping and passenger line (1873–1989) Holland America Line was founded in 1873, as the Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Dutch-American Steamship Company), in short Holland-Amerika Lijn, a shipping and passenger line. It was headquartered in Rotterdam, in the building which is now the Hotel New York. It provided service from its Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cunard Line
Cunard () is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its three ships have been registered in Hamilton, Bermuda. In 1839, Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company in Glasgow with shipowner Sir George Burns together with Robert Napier, the famous Scottish steamship engine designer and builder, to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool–Halifax–Boston route. For most of the next 30 years, Cunard held the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic voyage. However, in the 1870s Cunard fell behind its rivals, the White Star Line and the Inman Line. To meet this competition, in 1879 the firm was reorganised as the Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd, to raise capital. In 1902, White Star joined the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
P&O Cruises
P&O Cruises is a British cruise line based at Carnival House in Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. It was originally a subsidiary of the shipping company P&O and was founded in 1977. Along with P&O Cruises Australia, another former subsidiary of P&O, it has the oldest heritage of any cruise line in the world, dating to P&O's first passenger operations in 1837. P&O Cruises was divested from P&O in 2000, subsequently becoming a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises, before coming under its current ownership in 2003, following a merger between P&O Princess Cruises and Carnival Corporation. History Origins In 1834, Brodie McGhie Willcox, a ship broker from London, and Arthur Anderson, a sailor from the Shetland Islands, formed an association with Captain Richard Bourne, a steamship owner from Dublin. In 1837, the trio won a contract and began transporting mail and passengers from England to the Iberian Peninsula, founding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Cruises
S.p.A. (), operating as Costa Cruises, is an Italian cruise line founded in 1854 and organized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc since 2000. Based in Genoa, Italy, the cruise line primarily caters to the Italian cruise market, but the company's 11 ships, which all sail under the Italian flag, provide itineraries sailing to countries globally.Company profile ." Costa Cruises. Retrieved on January 20, 2010. History Costa Line Founded in in 1854 by Giacomo Costa (1836-1916) as Giacomo Costa fu Andrea, the company originally operated[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnival Cruise Lines
Carnival Cruise Line is an international cruise line with headquarters in Doral, Florida. The company is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Its logo is a funnel shaped like a whale's tail, with a red, white, and blue color scheme. This trademark funnel design is built onto the line's ships. Carnival is ranked first on the list of largest cruise lines based on passengers carried annually. , Carnival Cruise Line operates a fleet of 24 ships. They have one additional new build on order and a further two ships will join the fleet in 2023 and 2024, following a new joint venture deal between Carnival and Costa. Company structure Carnival is one of ten cruise lines owned by the world's largest cruise ship operator, the American-British Carnival Corporation & plc. In 2021, Carnival Cruise Line was estimated to hold a 7.6% share of cruise industry revenue and 18.2% of passengers. It has 24 vessels and is the largest fleet in the Carnival group. The ships fly flags of co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewel Of The Seas (cropped)
GTS ''Jewel of the Seas'' is a operated by Royal Caribbean. The ship was completed in the spring of 2004 with her maiden voyage in May of that year. History ''Jewel of the Seas'' initially operated cruises from Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy, to the Greek Isles in the Mediterranean Sea until November 2016, the ship re-positioned to cruising from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Caribbean destinations. In March 2019 the ship re-positioned from the Caribbean to the Mediterranean where it operated cruises in the Greek Isles and as of December 2019 it has been home ported in Dubai and operated cruises within the Persian Gulf. In April 2016, ''Jewel of the Seas'' completed a £20 million renovation. Coronavirus pandemic On 11 March 2020, the ship was docked at the Dubai Cruise Terminal with two passengers that were experiencing respiratory illnesses. After the ship was placed in quarantine, test results for the two sick passengers returned negative, and the ship was given the all clea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCI Serenade Of The Seas
RCI may refer to one of the following. *RCI (company), a Timeshare Exchange Company * Racer's Choice Inc., a manufacturer of racing automotive products, Texas, USA *Radio Canada International *Radio Caraïbes International, a radio station in Martinique and Guadeloupe *Radio Caribbean International, a radio station in St. Lucia * Rapid Continuous Improvement, a process improvement practice based on the Japanese concept of Kaizen * RCI Engineering, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment, including the Ag-Bag product line *Rehabilitation Council of India, an Indian council for the disabled *Renault Crédit International, former name of the French company RCI Banque *Research Centre Imarat, an Indian defence laboratory under DRDO responsible for the development of missiles. ''(See IGMDP)'' *Residential/Commercial/Industrial Meter - a common metric in City Building computer games *Revival Centres International, a Pentecostal church founded in Australia *Riverside College, Inc., a med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serenade Of The Seas
GTS ''Serenade of the Seas'' is a operated by Royal Caribbean International. She was completed in 2003. History The ship was built at Meyer Werft yard in Papenburg, Germany and is registered in Nassau, Bahamas. Her godmother is Whoopi Goldberg. She completed her maiden voyage on 25 August 2003. Other ships in the ''Radiance'' class include , and . The ship was the first Royal Caribbean cruise ship to visit Alaska since 2019; her first voyage there departed Seattle, Washington, on 19 July 2021. On 21 October 2021, Royal Caribbean announced that ''Serenade of the Seas'' will sail a 274-day itinerary, the longest offered by any cruise line, called the Ultimate World Cruise. She is scheduled to depart from Miami on 10 December 2023, and will visit 65 countries, including Morocco, Australia, and Brazil. Prices for guests range from US$61,000 to US$112,000. Layout ''Serenade of the Seas ''is a gas-turbine vessel. This system produces higher efficient speeds than other cruise ships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
