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Hotel ship in Turku, Finland Converted to full time cruise ship Kristina Regina in 1988 Funchal: 1961 1961–2011 Laid up for sale in Lisbon, Portugal Minghua: 1962 1962–1983 Hotel and Entertainment Complex in Shenzhen, China Built as the MV Ancerville for Compagnie de Navigation Paquet. Savannah: 1962 1962–1972 Limited use museum ship in ...
S.S. Saint Paul near the city of New York, circa 1895. NS Savannah: 1959 Preserved as a museum ship in Baltimore, Maryland SS Statendam: 1924 Caught Fire in Rotterdam on May 11, 1940. Scrapped at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht three months later. Statendam on her sea trials. MV Stirling Castle: 1935 Scrapped at Mihara, Japan in 1966 R.M.M.V. Stirling Castle
MV Aurora was a cruise ship built in Germany in 1955. After several changes of ownership and name, as of 2024 she was moored in Stockton, California, United States, and was undergoing restoration until May 22 when she began to take on water and sink. In December 2024, the ship was towed away for scrapping.
Migrant passenger ship working as part-time cruise ship 1958–73. Full-time cruise ship 1974–77. Scrapped following a fire, 1980. Fairstar: Sitmar Cruises: 1964: 21,619: Migrant passenger ship working as part-time cruise ship 1964–74, then full-time cruising. Allocated to P&O Australia fleet in 1988. Ended operation in 1997 and scrapped ...
SS Independence was an American built passenger liner, which entered service in February 1951 for American Export Lines.Originally, she plied a New York-Mediterranean route, specializing in a high-end clientele, sailing one way while her sister ship, SS Constitution, plied the route the opposite.
MS Kungsholm was a combined ocean liner / cruise ship built in 1953 by the De Schelde shipyard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands for the Swedish American Line.Between 1965 and 1981 she sailed for the North German Lloyd and their successor Hapag-Lloyd as MS Europa.
Her high occupancy rates during the early 1950s caused Matson to also refit her sister ship Monterey (renaming her SS Matsonia) and the two liners provided a first-class-only service between Hawaii and the American mainland from June 1957 to September 1962, mixed with the occasional Pacific cruise.
Transatlantic passenger traffic was seasonal. In the 1950s, as in the 1930s, operators of passenger liners used seasonal cruises to try to keep their ships fully occupied through the year. On 28 January 1950 Britannic left New York on a 54-day cruise from New York to Madeira and the Mediterranean. Tickets ranged from $1,350 to $4,500 per person ...