OCEAN MONARCH in Lisbon 25 January 2008

Classic International Cruises newest aquisition, the cruise ship OCEAN MONARCH arrived Lisbon on 25 January 2008 from Piraeus. She will now be refited in Lisbon before a summer season under charter to German interests, after which she will be further refited and renamed PRINCESS DAPHNE.

With this new ship the fleet operated from Lisbon by Classic International Cruises numbers five ships. OCEAN MONARCH purchase also means she is again reunited with her sister ship PRINCESS DANAE, the former DANAE, that was pruchased in 1996 by the present owners.

The OCEAN MONARCH is scheduled to enter the dry dock nº. 1 of NavalRocha shipyard, in Lisbon, where the Classic International Cruises fleet is refited and docked regularly.

The three photographs were taken on the arrival of the OCEAN MONARCH. She sailed from Piraeus with a crew of 55 and the funnel repainted white.

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