FRAM in Lisbon

The Norwegian expedition cruise ship FRAM has made another call in Lisbon on 13 October and we did photograph her departure at 6 PM. She is a modern traditional cruise ship in line with the old Bergenske Line cruise ships METEOR (two such named), and STELLA POLARIS all regular visitors to Lisbon along the 20th century.

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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.

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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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The NORDNORGE off the Portuguese Coast 21 April 2008

The Norwegian cruise ship NORDNORGE photographed off the Portuguese Coast on 21 April 2008 outbound from Lisbon on her way home after another season of Antartic cruising.
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