DISCOVERY in Venice

The British owned cruise ship DISCOVERY berthed at the Venice Passenger Terminal photographed from onboard the ATHENA on 28 September 2010.

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BREMEN in Venice 28 September 2010

The expedition cruise ship BREMEN is the smaller passenger ship in the present fleet of Hapag-Lloyd and she was photographed alongside Venice on 28 September 2010. 

With current practice of cruise ships to enter ports of call before the sun rise, the BREMEN was caught with the minimum light possible, making a different atmosphere from what I usually take in Lisbon.

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VICTORIA in Venice

Venice is one of the most beautiful ports for cruise ships in the Mediterranean.

One of the more handsome ships I was able to photograph in Venice waters in 2001 was the classic P&O Cruises VICTORIA ex-SEA PRINCESS, built in the Clydebank in 1966 for Swedish American Line as their final KUNGSHOLM.


She is still cruising as MONA LISA. Photographs taken in October 2001.


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ARION in Venice

The Portuguese-flag cruise ship ARION berthed in Venice in September 2001 while doing Eastern Mediterranean cruises.
ARION is an old friend I was used to see calling in Lisbon in the 1970s in her near-original form as ISTRA, then cruising on charter by German interests with her sister DALMACIJA. Two small beautiful passenger ships very similar to an older twice as large pair also popular in Lisbon in the early 1970s, the Lloyd Brasileiro ANNA NERY and ROSA DA FONSECA.
After a spell as the Ukranian and Panamian ASTRA, the former ISTRA was purchased by a company associated to Classic International Cruises in 1999 and rebuilt in Lisbon as the ARION. She is still with CIC as their smaller ship in a 5-cruise ships fleet. All classics...
During her Lisbon refit, the original lifeboats were replaced by newer ones purchased in Greece from the Latsis yacht ALEXANDER ex-REGINA MARIS. The lifeboats were transported to Lisbon from Piraeus on board the FUNCHAL in August 1999.
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