Showing posts with label s.s. Hanseatic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label s.s. Hanseatic. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

MAXIM GORKIY off the beach...

The MAKSIM GORKIY leaving Lisbon in black & white and the Soviet Union livery on 13 June 1987.

The MAXIM GORKIY is the next passenger ship to be beached at Alang the next coming days. She is just waiting for the right tide for that final full speed ahead ride into the sands of Alang.
What a shame nobody in Hamburg could succeed with the project to preserve the ship as a living museum and hotel under the original name of HAMBURG.
I am really sad with this situation. I enjoyed so much this magnificent final passenger liner and cruise ship of the 1960s I first saw in Lisbon in May 1969 on her maiden cruise.
In the photo published with this post the HAMBURG is seen on her final call in Lisbon, docking at Alcântara terminal on 25 May 2008, 39 years later and following so many pictures over the years. More photos and information in our HAMBURG / MAXIM GORKIY blog here.
Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

Monday, December 08, 2008

The HANSEATIC (I) of 1958-1966

The magnificent German passenger liner HANSEATIC of 1958 docked in Hamburg.
Built by Fairfields at Glasgow in 1929 - 1930 for Canadian Pacific as EMPRESS OF JAPAN, she was renamed EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND in 1942 and sold to Hamburg Atlantic Line in January 1958 and modernized in Hamburg.
She was damaged by fire on 7 September 1966 in New York and sold for scrap the following December.
A new liner had been ordered to replace her in 1969, so in the meantime the SHALOM was purchased in 1967 becoming the second HANSEATIC. This second ship was joined in 1969 by a new flagship, the HAMBURG, actual MAXIM GORKIY.
To the left another passenger liner can also be seen, the ARGENTINA or one of her two sisters.
Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia