ROTTERDAM in Cape Town 1970

The magnificent Holland America Line flagship ROTTERDAM of 1959 photographed  in Cape Town in January 1970 while on her world cruise.

The ROTTERDAM had a long career under Holland America until 1997 when she was sold to Premier Cruises and renamed REMBRANDT. The second career was a short one as by September 2000 Premier Cruises went bankrupt and the REMBRANDT was laid up in Freeport, Bahamas.

The old former ROTTERDAM was lucky, however, as the City of Rotterdam and local interests rescued her and following several years of refits the ROTTERDAM has just opened her doors again in her former home port of Rotterdam, as hotel ship and tourist's attraction.

These are just two of many fine photographs of famous passenger ships taken worldwide by my friend Trevor Jones of Durban. More on the ROTTERDAM of 1959 here.

Texto / Text by LM Correia. Image copyright Trevor Jones (Durban). For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

FINNMARKEN in Cape Town

Beautiful images of the Norwegian passenger ship FINNMARKEN arriving Cape Town in new cruising white colours in the morning of 13 February 2010.

It seems Hurtigruten (www.hurtigruten.com) has adopted the old tradition of repainting their passenger ships in tropical white when sent cruising, just like Bergen Line used to do with the METEOR of 1955 and also with their classic VENUS of 1931 in the final seasons, when the traditional black hull and funnels gave way to all white hulls and yellow funnels...

Photos taken and kindly shared by Ian Shiffman of Cape Town. See more of his photographs at the Table Bay Underway Shipping site here. Ian has one of the largest passenger ships photos collection in the world.

Texto /Text copyright L.M.Correia. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

FINNMARKEN em Cape Town

Paquete norueguês FINNMARKEN fotografado a 13 de Fevereiro de 2010 a chegar ao porto da Cidade do Cabo com uma nova pintura branca.

Este navio foi construído em 2002 em Ulsteinvik, Noruega, e faz habitualmente a linha regular Bergen - Cabo Norte (www.hurtigruten.com) com partidas diárias de Bergen todas as noites. Um dos 13 navios da frota actual, que efectuam cruzeiros e outros fretamentos de forma menos regular.

Interessante esta nova pintura em contraste com as cores habituais da companhia, com casco preto e vermelho e chaminé da mesma cor. Desde 1900 que diversas companhias de navegação optam por pintar os seus navios de passageiros de branco quando os utilizam em cruzeiros, tradição seguida inicialmente pela Mala Real Inglesa e por outras grandes empresas como a Holand America Line ou a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Nos anos cinquenta e sessenta do século XX a Bergen Line costumava pintar de branco o seu paquete METEOR, cuja chaminé em vez de preta era amarela, tendo aplicado o mesmo critério ao VENUS de 1931 no final da carreira deste navio em 1967-68. Com o FINNMARKEN, a companhia Hurtigruten segue assim o mesmo critério.

Fotografia tirada em Cape Town pelo meu amigo Ian Shiffman. Visitem o seu fabuloso site de fotografias de paquetes aqui e vão descobrir, entre outros antigos paquetes portugueses...

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NAVAL SHIPS in Cape Town

Quatro fotografias dos navios de guerra NICOLAS e SWIFT fotografados em Cape Town a 6 de Fevereiro último por Ian Shiffman.

O Ian Shiffman é um dos melhores fotógrafos de navios do mundo e um dos meus primeiros contactos e referências nessa área, tendo começado a trocar slides em 1975.

Ver mais imagens de Ian Shiffman aqui...
Four photographs of naval ships in Cape Town by Ian Shiffman: the USS NICOLAS and the SWIFT with the famous Table Mountain background on 6 February this year.
Ian Shiffman is one of today's foremost shipping and naval photographers worldwide and a longtime contact as we started exchanging original slides back in 1975.

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Texto de /Text copyright L.M.Correia. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia