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MS Iona is an Excellence-class cruise ship in service for P&O Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Built by German shipbuilder Meyer Werft in Papenburg , [ 4 ] she was delivered in October 2020 at a cost of £730 million.
MV Piano Land is a cruise ship in service for Astro Ocean, a newly-formed Chinese cruise line. [1] She originally entered service in April 1995 as Oriana for P&O Cruises, and was named by Queen Elizabeth II. [4]
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]
The Excellence class, [1] [2] [3] including the sub-classes Helios class [4] and XL or Excel class, [5] is a class of cruise ships ordered by Carnival Corporation & plc for its subsidiary brands AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, P&O Cruises and Carnival Cruise Line.
AIDAnova, the first of Carnival Corporation's nine planned Excellence-class ships, debuted in 2018 at 183,858 GT, with future ships in the class planned for Costa, P&O, Carnival, and AIDA. [25] In 2016 and 2017, Genting Hong Kong 's Dream Cruises introduced the 150,695 GT Genting Dream and World Dream , the first large ships from an Asian-owned ...
Along with P&O Cruises Australia, it has the oldest heritage of any cruise line in the world, dating to P&O's first passenger operations in 1837. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] P&O Cruises was divested from P&O in 2000, subsequently becoming a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises , [ 53 ] before coming under the ownership of Carnival Corporation & plc in ...
Faced with unprofitable around-the-world passenger routes, the P&O white hulled Oriana was operated as a full-time cruise ship from 1973. Between 1981 and her retirement from service five years later, Oriana was based at Sydney, Australia , operating to Pacific Ocean and South-East Asian ports.
In 1974, P&O bought Princess Cruises and transferred Spirit of London to their fleet, with Princess operating her as Sun Princess, alongside Island Princess and Pacific Princess. In September 1979 whilst under charter to Mutual of Omaha and cruising from Portland to San Francisco, a fire broke out in the laundry room.