Showing posts with label Lauro Lines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lauro Lines. Show all posts

Saturday, February 16, 2013

MONTEREY in Lisbon July 1990

Ex-American passenger liner and cruise ship MONTEREY photographed in Lisbon 1n July 1990 while on her first series of cruises based in the Mediterranean after she was purchased by interests associated to the Mediterranean Shipping Company Group. She looked particularly beautiful in StarLauro funnel colours... 
Constructed in 1952 as the U.S. Maritime Commission C4-type cargo liner FREE STATE MARINER, she was purchased by Matson Lines in 1955 and rebuilt as the passenger liner MONTEREY for South Pacific service and cruising as off January 1957.
In 1971 she was sold to Pacific Far East Lines and continued operating under the US flag until January 1978. After a long spell of lay up the MONTEREY was rebuilt and modernized for full time cruising by Tacoma Boatbuilding and  Wartsila for a new US operator, Aloha Pacific Cruises and introduced in 1988 on cruises in Hawaian waters. This ventured did not last for long and in May 1989 MONTEREY was laid up again, in Honolulu until sold in March 1990 to Star Lauro and the MSC Group. In Italian hands the MONTEREY gained another spell of life cruising for 16 years mostly in the Mediterranean until sold for scrap in India in late 2006. See more LMC photos of the MONTEREY here.
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Saturday, February 02, 2013

O ACHILLE LAURO na capa da Revista de Marinha

Tendo começado a colaborar com a Revista de Marinha em Dezembro de 1980, proporcionou-se fazer-se a capa da edição de Janeiro de 1981 com uma fotografia minha do paquete italiano ACHILLE LAURO a entrar em Lisboa ao fim da manhã de 20 de Julho de 1980. Esta fotografia foi tirada de um rebocador em manobra de aproximação para estabelecimento do cabo de reboque à proa, para atracar ao cais da Rocha.
Claro que gostei muito de ver esta fotografia na capa da RM e um pouco por todo o lado nos postos de venda.
O ACHILLE LAURO era então um dos mais interessantes navios de passageiros utilizados em cruzeiros. Fora construído em 1939-47 na Holanda com o nome WILLEM RUYS e vendido para Itália em 1964, sendo então reconstruído e reintroduzido na carreira da Austrália em 1966.
Este navio ficou conhecido na história recente pelo assalto de terroristas palestinianos de que foi vítima, ao ser sequestrado no dia 7 de Outubro de 1985, durante um cruzeiro pelo Mediterrâneo próximo de Alexandria. Os passageiros foram libertados dois dias depois, não sem antes um passageiro americano de origem judia ter sido assassinado por afogamento, atirado ao mar sentado na sua cadeira de rodas, o que chocou o mundo. O navio acabou por ser libertado a 16 de Outubro também e navegou até 1994.
Soube anos mais tarde que esta capa da RM com o ACHILLE LAURO foi utilizada pelo Pentágono em Washington para estudo do navio quando do assalto, pois era a única existente nos arquivos. Este episódio foi-me contado mais tarde por um amigo, o Charlie Dragonette, que trabalhou muitos anos como analista de informação marítima e naval  na US Navy no Pentágono. A Revista de Marinha era recebida regularmente, e analisada, guardando-se as fotografias mais relevantes em arquivo...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

ACHILLE LAURO, Lisbon...

The ACHILLE LAURO on another of my original photographs taken in Lisbon in 1980s...
Note her unusual hull forms and a blend of traditional Dutch and more modern Italian design...
Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. 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

ACHILLE LAURO leaving Lisbon 1986

The ACHILLE LAURO leaving Lisbon on one of her summer cruises in 1986.
Built as the Dutch mailship WILLEM RUYS and rebuilt in 1966 in Italy. One of the more interesting ship conversions ever...
Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. 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

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

ACHILLE LAURO

ACHILLE LAURO photographed in Lisbon in the 1980s. 
On the first photograph the tug AVEIRO is assisting ACHILLE LAURO off her berth at the Rocha passenger ship terminal.
In the middle two views of the forward funnel including the late form with StarLauro colours painted out.

Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. 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

Thursday, November 05, 2009

ROMA in Sydney

Flotta Lauro passenger liner ROMA berthed in Sydney's Circular Quay where today stands the famous Opera House. Photo by Michael Sutcliffe.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

MADEIRA PASSENGER SHIPPING

Pay a visit to our MADEIRA CRUISE SHIPS blog for a series of cruise ships photographs past and present. Including the veteran ACHILLE LAURO on her 1978 world cruise docking in Funchal, Madeira... CLICK here...
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