DELPHIN VOYAGER maiden call in Lisbon 2007-09-13

The cruise ship DELPHIN VOYAGER arrived in Lisbon on 13 September 2007 on her first ever visit. She is on charter to Delphin Cruises of Germany and replaced their previous DELPHIN RENAISSANCE.
Built in Japan in 1990 for the Japan Cruise Line as their first cruise ship ORIENT VENUS, and sold to Greek interests in 2005, she was renamed CRUISE ONE, spending about two years rebuilding in Greece upon the start of her present charter and renaming. The 21.884 GT ship is owned by First Cruise One Corporation, a company registered in the Marshall islands, and managed by Enterprises Shipping & Trading, of Athens, Greece. So, to go to the point, she is in fact a Greek ship under charter to Germans...
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CREOULA : 70 ANOS DE TRADIÇÃO

Um artigo com este título foi publicado na revista MAGAZINE GRANDE INFORMAÇÃO, edição de Setembro / Outubro de 2007. Com 8 páginas e muitas fotografias, procura divulgar o CREOULA junto do grande público. A revista está disponível em todo o País nos postos de venda de imprensa habituais.

Texto e fotografias de Luís Miguel Correia. Direitos reservados (copyright)

OCEANIC II ex-KUNGSHOLM em Lisboa

O OCEANIC II /The Schoolar Ship entrou de madrugada em Lisboa, dia 13-09-2007, cerca das 06h00, atracando ao cais avançado de Alcantara. O navio terminou na Grécia uma série de cruzeiros fretado à Pullmantur, para o mercado espanhol, estando afretado por interesses ligados à companhia Royal Caribbean, que é quem dinamizou o actual projecto.

O navio está a operar como campus universitário palco de um programa académico com o mesmo nome que proporciona a alunos oriundos de diferentes países uma experiência comum e única.

The Scholar Ship é um consórcio internacional formado por universidades de países como Marrocos, China, Austrália, México, EUA e Gana que pretende desenvolver competências interculturais através de um programa de ensino de elevada qualidade e reconhecimento internacional que oferece aos alunos a possibilidade de adquirem novas competências.

Os programas têm a duração de um semestre, com início em Janeiro e Setembro, sendo que para cada curso é seleccionado um itinerário diferente. Durante a viagem os alunos, de diferentes nacionalidades, recebem aulas formais e, quando em porto, é-lhes proporcionada a oportunidade de trocarem experiências com as universidades locais, de participarem em trabalhos de campo e laboratório ao mesmo tempo que realizam visitas de estudo vocacionadas para a sua área de formação. A Universidade de Lisboa é a interlocutora do The Scholar Ship em Portugal, tendo programadas várias actividades específicas para cada grupo de estudo.

O The Scholar Ship iniciou a sua viagem no passado dia 5 de Setembro partindo do porto de Piraeus, na Grécia, com destino a Lisboa, onde permanecerá até ao dia 19, seguindo depois para portos situados no Panamá, Equador, Tahiti, Austrália, China e Japão onde terminará a viagem no dia 23 de Dezembro.
Este navio é o antigo paquete sueco KUNGSHOLM de 1966, que esteve em Lisboa pela ultima vez com o nome MONA LISA em 2006. O The Scholar Ship disponibiliza toda a informação no seu site:

www.thescholarship.com

Press release da APL editado por Luís Miguel Correia. Foto de Shipspotting

NAVIOS BENSAUDE

Um acaso feliz proporcionou esta fotografia cheia de significado histórico: o paquete FUNCHAL a sair de Lisboa cruza o porta-contentores CORVO no canal da Barra Grande do Tejo, em 10 de Setembro último. Trata-se de dois navios com 46 anos a separarem as construções respectivas. O elemento comum é a Família Bensaude.
O FUNCHAL foi um dos legados de Vasco Bensaude, uma verdadeira obra prima em termos de concepção, como ainda recentemente reconheceu publicamente o actual armador. Entrado ao serviço em Novembro de 1961, o FUNCHAL continua a navegar passados todos estes anos, no que é a melhor homenagem ao seu criador e à antiga Empresa Insulana de Navegação.
O CORVO, acabado de sair dos Estaleiros de Viana do Castelo, é a aposta mais recente de Joaquim Bensaude, neto de Vasco Bensaude e responsável pela Mutualista Açoreana, empresa que mantém as tradições marítimas da Família, a qual desde 1840 tem estado sempre envolvida no negócio dos transportes marítimos, como armadora e operadora de navios. Um caso pouco frequente no mundo e ainda mais raro em Portugal.
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Beautiful Ships

Images of Tall Ships in Lisbon. Remembering the July 2006 regatta...
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CHAMINÉ DO SANTA MARIA

A chaminé apresentada em baixo era a do paquete SANTA MARIA, como foi prontamente comentado pelos nossos visitantes mais doutos. Um obrigado a todos pela participação e interesse. Todos os visitantes que introduziram comentários acerca do SANTA MARIA vão receber um postal original do navio editado pela antiga Companhia Colonial. Por favor enviem os vossos endereços postais para o email m.s.funchal@gmail.com
Quem não participou e pretender o postal pode proceder à sua aquisição. Consultar o blogue dos postais de navios acerca dos preços e navios disponíveis...
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NEW CRUISE SHIPS BLOG - NOVO BLOGUE DE NAVIOS

My dear friend Rui A has started a new blog on cruise ships with some of his nice photos. Congratulations RUI. Click on the previous red words to enter his CRUISE SHIP FOTOS blog. The photo of the SKYWONDER was taken recently by Rui at Barcelona. This ship was built for Sitmar in 1984 as the final turbine driven cruise ship ever constructed. She was the third FAIRSKY and it was this newbuilding project that led SITMAR to sell the former Portuguese liner PRINCIPE PERFEITO they had purchased with the intention to convert for cruising. When the Barcelona yard that won the contract to rebuild our PRINCIPE PERFEITO asked for more money, Sitmar canceled the project and had a new ship built instead...
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DEDICATED TO SIR HUMPHREY

Dedicated to SIR HUMPHREY, a beautiful Portuguese ship, whose next book is scheduled for publishing on 10th May 2037 to commemorate the first century of the CREOULA...
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What funnel? Que chaminé?

What funnel? Someone can tell us where the picture was taken and for what ship was it intended?

The first 10 visitors to give the correct answer will get an original company post card of the ship, funnel included...

Que chaminé é esta? Alguém é capaz de nos contar onde foi feita a fotografia e a que navio se destinou? Os primeiros 10 visitantes a responder correctamente recebemum postal original do navio em causa, editado há muitos anos pelo respectivo armador.
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The face behind the pictures

The face behind the pictures. This time going nowhere for the moment. Just going along with a passion for ships that in 1975 took over a camera and turned into shipping photography. And each ship is a picture and for each picture I wish I could have a book. Another book was finished yesterday. The best one. My best book is always the one I'm working on right now. And this book - a company history and fleet list is about some of my favorite ships from the past. While doing it I got closer and closer to those ships and the men behind them. Starting with the company's founder, a very interesting and clever man who was unable to sign his name but did create a shipping company that is still going strong. While writing on him I became more and more involved with him, with his work, his partners and the people who managed the company after he passed away. He seems to be on the second picture waiting for his newest ship to cross the Tagus Bar. He still sails on the ships operated by his company. And that counts. And after more than a year working hard on books that never get finished I'm getting nuts. Sorry...
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COSTA ATLANTICA off Lisbon 2007-09-08

The Italian cruise ship COSTA ATLANTICA sailing from Lisbon in the evening dusk light 2007-09-08.
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BUSY WATERWAY...

Busy shipping waterway off Lisbon in the south bar channel: the Italian cruise ship COSTA ATLANTICA and the British flagged, German owned and operated container ship DS BLUE OCEAN out and inbound from Lisbon on 2007-09-07.

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RIVER CRUISES IN LISBON

A picture of the two most beautiful Tagus river cruise ships, the schooner PRINCIPE PERFEITO, and the S. PAULUS, one of the four ex-HADAG Hamburg former ferries still being operated by Transtejo. Photograph taken on 5th September 2007.

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VASCO DA GAMA-class Frigates

The three VASCO DA GAMA-class Portuguese Navy frigates: from top to bottom, the F330 - NRP VASCO DA GAMA, the F331 - NRP ÁLVARES CABRAL and the F332 - NRP CORTE REAL.

The 3.200 tons displacement ships are the largest in the Portuguese Navy and were built in Germany as MEKO200PN ships. The first was commissioned in 1990 and the other two in 1991.

Photographs taken in Lisbon in 2007

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EXPRESS SANTORINI in Ponta Delgada 2007-07-28

Beautiful ships are ageless. The veteran Greek passenger Ro-Ro ferry EXPRESS SANTORINI has been very successful on her present Azores charter. Those photos were taken at Ponta Delgada, St. Michael's Island on 28 July 2007 by Luís Miguel Correia.
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LE DIAMANT in Lisbon 2007-09-05

The French registered and operated cruise ship LE DIAMANT leaving Lisbon on 2007-09-05. One of the few French flag cruise ships in service...
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The RHAPSODY in Lisbon 2007-09-05

Arrival of the cruise ship RHAPSODY in Lisbon 2007-09-05. When delivered in 1977 to Cunard Line as the CUNARD PRINCESS it was said she would probably be the last purpose-built cruise ship to enter service...However, soon afterwards, a new generation of new ships atarted to enter service and the booming is still going on...

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FOG PRINCE

There were two cruise ships scheduled to depart Lisbon on the evening of 2nd September 2007: the BLACK PRINCE and the ORIANA, so I stopped my book writing activities for a while and went to the Tagus mouth to see the ships. It was a foggy day and the best I could do was to register this FOGGY PRINCE passing by...
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LISBON QUEEN

Not the QUEEN OF LISBON, but an amazing QUEEN IN LISBON.
The R.M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 has called in Lisbon countless times since 28th April 1969 when I first saw her alongside the Rocha cruise terminal dressed with flags and the original white funnel, while on her shakedown cruise.
Beautiful QE2. Photos taken in Lisbon on her last call on 2nd September 2007.
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MOVING QUEEN : The QE2 in the Tagus 2007-09-02

The QE2 leaving Lisbon on the afternoon of 2nd September 2007 on yet another cruise calling at the river Tagus.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENDEAVOUR in Lisbon 2007-09-03

One of the smallest cruise ships in active service in the world, the little NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENDEAVOUR has probably the longest name. But small is beautiful and this former fishing trawler is going strong, cruising into the Atlantic after another call in Lisbon on 3rd September 2007.
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QUERIDO PONTA DELGADA

Querido PONTA DELGADA. Afundado no lodo do esquecimento dos navios e do mar. Ali ao Poço do Bispo, há tantos anos. Construído em Lisboa em 1961 para o serviço de cabotagem nos Açores da Empresa Insulana de Navegação, o paquete PONTA DELGADA era uma miniatura do FUNCHAL, entrado ao serviço da mesma empresa em 1961 e que tem tido mais sorte, pois continua a navegar como último testemunho de uma época saudosa da nossa Marinha de Comércio.
O PONTA DELGADA também viveu muitas aventuras, nos Açores e depois de 1984 em águas do Continente e na África, onde operou em 1988 na costa de Moçambique.
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