QUEEN ANNA MARIA underway

Beautiful image of the QUEEN ANNA MARIA. One of the iconic liner in my youth in Lisbon. Built the same year as myself, and a constant in my life as passenger shipping observer: I remember her Canadian Pacific buff and chequered funnel shinning on the evening sun alongside the Rocha Pax Terminal in 1963, then as QUEEN ANNA MARIA she became part of Lisbon waterfront on her regular transatlantic voyages with OLYMPIA. The news of the collapse of Greek Line and her final dash from NY into lay up in Greece in 1975, at a time when most of those beautiful liners were sent to Kaoshiung on a no return voyage, including her sister OCEAN MONARCH. Her rescue by Ted Arison in late 1975 marked the turn of the tide for this Lady. A long spell of success in the Caribbean as CARNIVALE made me go to Miami in 1989 to photograph the former Empresses. Later she sailed briefly as FIESTA MARINA. Later on I made a cruise on her in the Aegean - she was the magnificent OLYMPIC of Royal Olympic Cruises by then. Her success did continue over the years cruising all over the world as THE TOPAZ until she was sold to be broken up in India in 2008. She operated around the globe for the Japanese Peace Boat organization in the end...

This magnificent underway photograph of QUEEN ANNA MARIA has been sent by my freind Trevor Jones. It is part of his collection of ship photographs.

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Porto de Lisboa em Junho de 1967

Vista aérea do porto de Lisboa em Junho de 1967: atracado à estação marítima da Rocha pode ver-se o paquete grego QUEEN ANNA MARIA, chegado de Palermo com 776 passageiros, seguido do nosso VERA CRUZ no cais da CCN. Na estação marítima de Alcântara, encontra-se atracado o ELLINIS, da companhia grega Chandris. O QUEEN ANNA MARIA largou pelas 12H00 para Nova Iorque e no mesmo local atracou o CARIBIA da Siosa Line.

Na doca nº 1 do estaleiro da Rocha, está o cargueiro S. THOMÉ, de 1938, da Companhia Nacional de Navegação. Atracados na doca de Alcântara encontram-se os paquetes ANGRA DO HEROÍSMO, AMÉLIA DE MELLO e MANUEL ALFREDO, os cargueiros AMBOIM, LUANDA, LAGOA, SAN MIGUEL, GORGULHO, ALCOUTIM, MADEIRENSE e BRAGA. Na ponta da Rocha, está atracado o LUGELA, da CCN, mas não se vê nesta imagem... 

Esta fotografia faz parte de um conjunto de imagens aéreas mandadas efectuar pela AGPL nos dias 8 e 9 de Junho de 1967. Imagem enviada pelo Amigo Nuno Bartolomeu. Obrigado.

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A distinctive funnel

A very distictive funnel of a famous passenger liner with a long career of over fifty years, mostly cruising after two decades on transatlantic services and off-season cruises: the TOPAZ (1997-2008), one of the last steam turbine passenger ships in service when I took those photos in 2002 in Funchal, Madeira Island. It was the same funnel I saw in Lisbon back in 1963 as the EMPRESS OF BRITAIN (1956-1964),  and later on as QUEEN ANNA MARIA (1964-1975), then as CARNIVALE (1975-1993) in Miami, later on as Royal Olympic's OLYMPIC (1994-1997).

In 2008 it was the sad end for that handsome funnel, at Alang, India, where the TOPAZ was finally scrapped. She was a lucky ship as her twin sister EMPRESS OF ENGLAND had met a similar end in Taiwan in 1975.

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