ENRICO COSTA funnel

Close up of the Costa Line steam passenger liner ENRICO COSTA, ex-ENRICO C, ex-PROVENCE showing her "Lascroux" type funnel before conversion to motorship in 1989. Photograph taken in Lisbon on 1 April 1989. Check her history here... 

Pormenor da chaminé do antigo navio de passageiros italiano ENRICO COSTA, ex-ENRICO C, ex-PROVENCE, parte de um conjunto de fotografias feitas a 1 de abril de 1989 em Lisboa.

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Final Glory...

It took me hours to take this underway photograph of the Greek cruise ship OCEAN GLORY I arriving Lisbon on 28 June 2001 on what proved to be her final cruise. It was a troubled voyage and the ship was several hours late, so I decided to go off to the river Tagus mouth just in case there might be light problems. I waited, and waited, and waited until a small slow column of black smoke appeared over the horizon. There she was...
I always had a special interest for this ship I first remember as the PROVENCE. Then as ENRICO C and later as ENRICO COSTA she was a frequent visitor to Lisbon. See her as ENRICO here.
In 2001 she was chartered to a British tour operator for a series of cruises, but then all went wrong and she was detained on her arrival in Lisbon, being allowed to depart for Dover three days later where she was detained again, and this time for good. All cruises were canceled and after a period in lay up, she went to Alang to be scrapped. More OCEAN GLORY I photos here.
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ENRICO COSTA in Lisbon

The Italian passenger liner and cruise ship ENRICO COSTA photographed in Lisbon in 1990 after the rebuilding and convertion to motor liner...
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ENRICO COSTA in Lisbon 1-04-1989

The Italian passenger liner and cruise ship ENRICO COSTA arriving Lisbon on 1 April 1989 still under steam.
The following November she was rebuilt as a motor ship and survived another 12 years being scrapped in Alang in 2001.
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ENRICO C presented by Costa

Costa brochure presenting the ENRICO C in the 1980s.

Similar brochures with facts and deck plans were available showing their other ships.

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ENRICO C underway in 1986

The Italian turbine steamship ENRICO C ex PROVENCE photographed underway off the river Tagus mouth, on her way from Lisbon in October 1986. Photograph taken from the inbound FUNCHAL.
Later the ENRICO C was renamed ENRICO COSTA, her steam turbines gave way to diesel engines, and this fact and the modernization that followed somehow deprived this handsome liner of her steamship look so evident in the photo...

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