Showing posts with label Sitmar Cruises. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sitmar Cruises. Show all posts

Friday, December 28, 2012

Paquetes Vlasov

O surto de emigração da Europa para as Américas, África do Sul e Austrália a seguir à segunda guerra mundial levou ao aparecimento de diversas companhias de navegação com navios de passageiros cheios de carisma, caso de companhias como a Costa, Sitmar ou Chandris.
Os postais que apresentamos são de quatro dos navios de passageiros da Sitmar - Societa Italiana di Transporti Maritimi, navios com um enorme V azul em fundo amarelo nas chaminés a indiciar a origem russa da companhia, pois a Sitmar pertencia a Boris Vlasov, um refugiado russo instalado em Itália depois da revolução naquele país. 
Os navios CASTEL BIANCO e CASTEL FELICE pertenceram à primeira geração da frota de paquetes da Sitmar, o FAIRSTAR fez a transição das viagens regulares para os cruzeiros e o FAIRSKY de 1984 foi o último paquete da companhia, que foi absorvida pela Princess Cruises quando tinha em construção mais três navios de passageiros.

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

VIDA DE MARINHEIRO

Descubra o que o antigo paquete FAIRWIND, da Sitmar Cruises tem a ver com as andanças de um marinheiro português de Viana do Castelo. Aqui...
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Friday, August 07, 2009

Former SITMAR ships in Madeira

This curious photograph kindly sent from Funchal by Captain Duarte Chaves Correia captured the two final ships laid down for the long gone SITMAR Cruises. It was taken in Funchal, Madeira Island, on 1 May 2009 and shows OCEAN VILLAGE, ex-ARCADIA, ex-STAR PRINCESS, laid down in May 1988 in St Nazaire as SITMAR FAIRMAJESTY, and the ATLANTIC STAR, built also in France, but at La Seine, for SITMAR as the FAIRSKY of 1984 - the last steam turbine passenger ship to have been built.
In September 1988 SITMAR was taken over by Princess Cruises and so the SITMAR FAIRMAJESTY was delivered in May 1989 as STAR PRINCESS, and by then the FAIRSKY had been renamed SKY PRINCESS under Princess Cruises management.
Further passenger ships in Madeira Island can be seen here...
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