Um mesmo nome, navios diferentes

O mundo fascinante dos navios e do mar apresenta inúmeras particularidades, algumas causa de confusão para quem observe estas coisas na diagonal. E muito boa gente o faz, em livros, por exemplo. 

Refiro-me concretamente à confusão frequente ligada ao facto de ao longo dos anos terem existido navios diferentes com o mesmo nome. Depois alguém escreve sobre o navio A e ilustra a sua ciência com uma imagem do A-1, por exemplo.

Particularize-se com a situação da antiga Swedish American Line, que teve na sua frota, entre 1923 e 1975, quatro navios de passageiros diferentes baptizados com o mesmo nome KUNGSHOLM.

Nas imagens que acompanham este texto, os KUNGSHOLM apresentados são o de 1928 e o de 1966, ambos construídos propositadamente para a famosa companhia sueca. Não foi este o caso do primeiro KUNGSHOLM, construído em 1902 para a Holland America Line, como NOORDAM, e adquirido pelos suecos em 1923. Em 1953 entrou ao serviço o terceiro KUNGSHOLM, construído na Holanda, e que em 1965 foi vendido ao North German Lloyd, passando a chamar-se EUROPA. 

Situações destas foram também frequentes  nas frotas das antigas grandes companhias de navegação portuguesas. A Empresa e Companhia Nacional de Navegação, por exemplo, teve quatro navios diferentes com o mesmo nome de ANGOLA, houve dois FUNCHAIS na frota da Insulana, três GANDAS diferentes na da Colonial, e por aí fora. Tudo isto, claro, torna mais interessante a temática ligada às frotas de navios mercantes. Passa-se o mesmo com unidades navais das marinhas de guerra...

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Swedish American Line

Swedish American Line and their handsome Dutch-built KUNGSHOLM of 1953, replaced by the new KUNGSHOLM in 1966 when she became NDL's EUROPA.

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Swedish Amercan Line Cruises

Front cover of Swedish American Line's GRIPSHOLM winter cruises: two West Indies Cruises, (and West Indies sounds POSH compared to present day Caribbean cruises) and one long cruise to South America. The cruise ship is the GRIPSHOLM of 1957, but the passenger liner depicted on the cover is not the GRIPSHOLM, but her earlier near sister, the KUNGSHOLM of 1953. 

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GRIPSHOLM and KUNGSHOLM

Bill Miller recalls two handsome Swedish passenger liners and cruise ships I knew so well in the nineteen sixties and up to 1975: "The Swedish American Line had a glorious reputation: first rate service, food & ambiance. And of course they offered the most wonderful, long cruise itineraries. Their two ships, the GRIPSHOLM of 1957 & KUNGSHOLM of 1966, were thought to be much like "large yachts". The GRIPSHOLM, for example, carried only 450 passengers (out of a total of 842 berths on normal crossings) on her cruises -- and then with 450 handpicked crew. 

The two ships rarely met ... but on occasion, they did call in the same port. Here's a view from Copenhagen in 1972."

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MONA LISA WHITE FUNNEL

MONA LISA funnel photographed in Lisbon on 27 February 2003 on her first call after sale by P&O. Soon after it was repainted in dark red.

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MONA LISA FUNNEL

MONA LISA funnel photographed in Lisbon on 25 May 2003 already repainted in dark red.
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MONA LISA AGAIN

On 25th April the OCEANIC II already spoted the MONA LISA name again.
Photos kindly sent by Hans Hoffmann.
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MONA LISA ON THE SAND BANK

On Sunday 4th May the Greek owned, German chartered cruise ship MONA LISA run aground on a sandbank following human error off the Latvian coast while cruising in the Baltic with 650 German passengers.
Initial efforts to free the ship failed and on 5 May the passengers and 11 crew members were evacuated by the Latvian Navy. All ballast and fuel had to be pumped out and it was only on the 7th May that the MONA LISA was taken from the sand bank. The accident was due to human error.

Photographs from the internet


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