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MV Britannia is a cruise ship of the P&O Cruises fleet. She was built by Fincantieri at its shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. [3] Britannia is the flagship of the fleet, [4] taking the honour from Oriana. She officially entered service on 14 March 2015, [5] and was named by Queen Elizabeth II. Her first captain was Paul Brown.
Two years after P&O's only Royal-class ship was ordered, on 24 September 2013, the ship's name was announced as Britannia. She was delivered to P&O Cruises on 22 February 2015 in Monfalcone. [14] Britannia arrived in Southampton on 6 March 2015, [27] was christened by Queen Elizabeth II on 10 March, [28] and entered service on her maiden voyage ...
The first large cruise ships were the Voyager-class from Royal Caribbean Group's Royal Caribbean International (RCI). These ships, which debuted in 1998 at over 137,000 GT, were almost 30,000 GT larger than the next-largest cruise ships, and were some of the first designed to offer amenities unrelated to cruising, such as an ice rink and climbing wall. [1]
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 freight transport company P&O and was founded in 1977. [1]
P&O also built 6 ships in Stocznia Gdansk, Poland (the Strath*E*s) and 2 ships in Japan (the Strath*F*s) and bought into DOT, a naval shipping company. Report & Accounts cover, dated 9 December 1931. In 1975, P&O established Pandoro for operation of the company's Irish Sea RO-RO routes. Pandoro was an acronym for P and O Ro.
RMS Medina (1911–1912): chartered P&O steamship for the royal visit to India; Britannia (royal cutter yacht) (1893–1936) RMS Empress of Britain (1931–1940) RMS Empress of Australia (1939) [7] HMS Renown (1916): used in 1920 for the Prince of Wales Empire tour and in 1927 by the Duke and Duchess of York to visit Australia
In 2005 she stopped operating for P&O and was subsequently sold to SNAV in Italy and renamed MS SNAV Lazio. The former MS Koningin Beatrix (1986), [8] sold in 1989 to Stena Line and renamed in 2002 as MS Stena Baltica, was built by the Dutch shipyard Van der Giessen de Noord for SMZ to a similar basic design as the four sisters, supplied by A.G ...
Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy.She was in their service from 1954-97. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893.