OCEAN DREAM saindo a barra do Tejo

Navio de passageiros OCEAN DREAM saindo a barra do Tejo após mais uma visita à capital portuguesa, concretizada a 20 de Maio de 2016 no decurso de mais um cruzeiro à volta do mundo operado pela organização japonesa Peace Boat.

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Peace Boat's OCEAN DREAM

The maiden arrival in Lisbon on 15 June 2012 of the cruise ship OCEAN DREAM, operated by the Japanese organization PEACE BOAT. It is the first ever call in Lisbon of this ship, as she never called before under none of her previous names as TROPICALE, COSTA TROPICALE or PACIFIC STAR.

OCEAN DREAM is doing a world cruise and as just replaced the magnificent SS THE OCEANIC of 1965, which is on her way to be broken up in China...

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OCEAN DREAM in Peace Boat colours

Cruise ship OCEAN DREAM with new "Peace Boat" markings photographed in Colon, Panama on 29 March 2012.

OCEAN DREAM finished on 18 March her Brazilian cruises and sailed to Panamá where the Maltese registry was replaced by the flag of Panama. Class was also transferred to Germanischer Lloyd and the ship is now under the management of Maritime Holdings Group.

OCEAN DREAM is being bareboat chartered for ten years to Japanese interests. She will no cross the Pacific on a positioning voyage to be delivered on 25 April at Hakata, Japan. 

OCEAN DREAM was built in Denmark in 1980-1982 for Carnival Cruise Lines as TROPICALE. She was Carnivale's fourth ship and their first newbuilding. In 2000 she was transferred to Costa Cruises who replaced the original funnel by a Costa style-funnel and in 2005 she became PACIFIC STAR operating out of Australia until sold in 2007 to Pullmantur.

OCEAN DREAM replaces the classic THE OCEANIC in Peace Boat service. The famous former Home Lines flagship is now doing her final voyage and will most likely be sold to to broken up.

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OCEAN DREAM sold to Peace Boat

The cruise ship OCEAN DREAM has been sold by Pullmantur to interests associated to the Japanese organization PEACE BOAT.

OCEAN DREAM is operating out of Fortaleza on cruises to Fernando de Noronha in Brazil, until early April. Afterwards she will be delivered to the new owners in Panama.

With the purchase of OCEAN DREAM, the future of the classic steam turbine ocean liner THE OCEANIC looks bleak and probably she doing now her final world cruise.

The OCEANIC was one of the most magnificent liners built in Italy in the 1960s. She was delivered to Home Lines in 1965 and cruised out of New York for the next twenty years... Despite being now an old and costly ship, the OCEANIC has operated successfully for the last 47 years. I would not be surprised to see her go to Alang soon...
OCEAN DREAM photograph in Barcelona by Hans Hoffman.

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BLEU DE FRANCE and OCEAN DREAM sold by Pullmantur

Pullmantur, the Spanish affiliate of the Royal Caribbean Group has sold their cruise ships BLEU DE FRANCE and OCEAN DREAM to undisclosed buyers. Delivery dates were not yet announced.
Meanwhile fleet mate ATLANTIC STAR is still laid up in Marseilles, her sale still being negotiated with South Korean interests.
On the other way, the Pullmantur fleet will get the MAJESTY OF THE SEAS from Royal Caribbean next year.
OCEAN DREAM was the former TROPICALE of Carnival Cruise Lines while BLEU DE FRANCE (aka BLOODY FRANCE by her crew members) was once the most luxurious cruise ship in the world as the EUROPA of 1981, as seen in the photograph showing the former Hapag-Lloyd flagship in Lisbon.
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