FROM MAXIM TO MARCO

The classic beauty of the turbine steam driven cruise ship MAXIM GORKIY registered in black & white while at anchor in Geiranger, Norway, on 23 September 2008.
Built by Howaldtswerke in Hamburg in the late sixties as HAMBURH, her career as flagship of the Federal German Merchant Navy was a short one and in 1974 she became the proud Soviet Passenger Shipping fleet flagship under the current name. Apart from a short spell of cruising from New York in 1974, the MAXIM GORKIY has been cruising always under charter to the German market, and this is coming to an end as Phoenix Reisen of Bonn has terminated the charter after 20 years of operation due to the older age of the ship and the cost of running her under steam. After the final cruise in the Mediterranean, to end in late November, the MAXIM GORKIY will be renamed MARCO POLO II and after a refit starts a new career under the livery of reborn Orient Lines next Spring.
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