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List Of Stretched Cruise Ships
Cruise lines have opted to increase capacity by stretching their current ships. Known as lengthening, the process of enlarging a cruise ship usually includes cutting the ship in half and adding a new midsection, adding more cabins and public areas. The first modern cruise ship to be stretched was Royal Caribbean Line's ''MS Formosa Queen, Song of Norway'' in 1977. File:Royal Viking Sky IMO 7218395 P Hamburg 08-1973 (1).jpg, ''Royal Viking Sky'' Before Stretch File:Kreuzfahrtschiff ROYAL VIKING SKY (norweg.) (Kiel 39.814) (restored).jpg, ''Royal Viking Sky'' After Stretch File:2016 05 01 Nor Wind Dream Majesty Verlängerung Lloyd Werft 111 IMG 7107.JPG, ''Norwegian Wind'' & ''Norwegian Dream'' Before and After Stretch External links ''Balmoral'' Stretch Time-lapse''MSC Armonia'' Stretch''Silver Spirit'' Lengthening VideoWindstar Cruises - How to Stretch a cruise ship References {{Reflist Lists of cruise ships, stretched cruise ships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Formosa Queen
MS ''Song of Norway'' (later ''Sundream'', ''Dream Princess'', ''Dream'', ''Clipper Pearl'', ''Clipper Pacific'', ''Festival'', ''Ocean Pearl'', ''Formosa Queen'') was one of the first ships purpose-built as a cruise ship. She was the first ship of Royal Caribbean International when she entered operation in 1970. She was sold for scrap in 2013 and broken up in 2014, after serving her last years as a gambling ship. Statistics The vessel originally had a gross tonnage of 18,000 tons, and could carry 724 passengers. Following the 1978 refit, she was lengthened by 85 feet, to provide for 1024 passengers and increasing her size to 23,000 gross tons. History The vessel was constructed in Helsinki, Finland in 1970. Named ''Song of Norway'', she was the first ship built for cruise line Royal Caribbean International. The vessel was lengthened in 1978, due to the high demand for cruising, and sailed on seven- and fourteen-day cruises out of Miami. As ''Song of Norway'' she was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland America Line
Holland America Line is an American-owned cruise line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. Holland America Line was founded in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and from 1873 to 1989, it operated as a Dutch shipping line, a passenger line, a cargo line and a cruise line operating primarily between the Netherlands and North America. As part of the company's legacy, it was directly involved in the transport of many hundreds of thousands of emigrants from the Netherlands to North America. Holland America has been a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation since 1989. History Dutch shipping and passenger line (1873–1989) Holland America Line was founded in 1873, as the Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Dutch-American Steamship Company), in short Holland-Amerika Lijn, a shipping and passenger line. It was headquartered in Rotterdam, in the building which is now the Hotel New York. It provided service from its Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cammell Laird
Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company. It was formed from the merger of Laird Brothers of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century. The company also built railway rolling stock until 1929, when that side of the business was separated and became part of the Metro-Cammell, Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company. History Formation from merger of Laird Company and Cammell & Co. The Laird Company was founded by William Laird (shipbuilder), William Laird, who had established the Birkenhead Iron Works in 1824. When he was joined by his son, John Laird (shipbuilder), John Laird in 1828, their first ship was an iron barge. John realised that the techniques of making boilers could be applied to making ships. The company soon became pre-eminent in the manufacture of iron ships and also made major advances in propulsion. In 1860, John Laird was joined in the business by his three sons, renaming the company John Laird, Sons & Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaritaville At Sea Paradise
''Margaritaville at Sea Paradise'' (formerly ''Grand Classica'', ''Costa neoClassica'', and ''Costa Classica'') is a cruise ship that is operating for Margaritaville at Sea. The ship left the Costa fleet in March 2018 after being sold to Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line and began sailing on April 13, 2018 as ''Grand Classica''. From May 2022, the ship has been sailing as ''Margaritaville at Sea Paradise'', after the cruise line announced a partnership with Margaritaville Resorts & Hotels. ''Costa Classica'' The contract for the ''Costa Classica'' was signed with Fincantieri in July 1987 with a value of $287 million. The ship was built as hull 5877 by Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani yard at Monfalcone, completed in 1991, and was Costa Cruises' first purpose-built newbuild since ''Eugenio C'' in 1966. She was the first of two sister ships, the other being '' Costa Romantica'', and was intended for Costa's new Euroluxe concept. The ship interior and exteriors were designed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Classica Shanghai (recropped)
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MS Crown Iris
MS ''Crown Iris'' is a cruise ship owned by Mano Maritime. She was originally ordered by Birka Line as MS ''Birka Queen'' from the Wärtsilä Marine Turku Shipyard in Finland, but completed by Kvaerner Masa-Yards as MS ''Royal Majesty'' for Majesty Cruise Line. In 1997 she was sold to Norwegian Cruise Line as the MS ''Norwegian Majesty'' and lengthened by at the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany. She was sold to Louis Cruises as the MS ''Louis Majesty'' from 2008 to 2012 when she was chartered to Thomson Cruises as the MS ''Thomson Majesty'' before being returned to Louis Cruises/Celestyal Cruises, as the ''Majesty''. In 2018 the ship sold to Mano Maritime. Concept and construction ''Birka Queen'' was ordered by Birka Line for short cruises out of Stockholm as a running mate to . The ship was ordered from Wärtsilä Marine, but the shipyard went bankrupt in 1989. Operations were soon reorganized under the name of Masa-Yards, but the price of the ship was increased in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Majesty-5 (cropped)
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Norwegian Wind
MS ''Windward'' was a cruise ship that was built in 1993 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France for Kloster Cruise (Norwegian Cruise Line) as ''Windward''. In 1998 she was lengthened at Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany and renamed ''Norwegian Wind''. In 2007 she was transferred to the fleet of Star Cruises as ''SuperStar Aquarius''. The ship remained in passenger service for the cruise line until the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown in 2020. The ship was sold for scrap as ''Arius'' in 2022 following the liquidation of the cruise line's parent company after filing for bankruptcy, which also led to the demise of Star Cruises. History Entering service in 1993 as ''Windward'', she was the second of two sister vessels built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique for Kloster Cruise for use under their Norwegian Cruise Line brand. In 1998 she was lengthened by insertion of a midsection and was renamed as ''Norwegian Wind''. This work was completed by Lloyd Werft shipya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Wind Gf16
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Lloyd Werft
Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven GmbH is a dockyard in Bremerhaven. It was founded in 1863 by the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd, first mainly used as a repair workshop for the company’s own merchant fleet. This new yard was established in exchange and addition to the former small Lloyd-workshop in Bremen which was already founded in 1857. In the 1970s, the shipyard became member of the Vulkan Group. As of 2016, the Lloyd facility is the last remaining major dockyard in Bremerhaven. It employs 500 workers and occupies 260,000 m². Ships with a draught as deep as 11.5 m can be accommodated. The dockyard is solely focused on ship repair, maintenance and reconstruction. In 2015, Genting Hong Kong Genting Hong Kong Limited ( zh, 雲頂香港有限公司) was a holding company that operated cruise and resort businesses. It was headquartered in (海洋中心), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (). It was p ..., a Hong-Kong bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Cruise Line
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), also known in short as Norwegian, is an American cruise line founded in 1966, incorporated in Bermuda and headquartered in Miami. It is the fourth-largest cruise line in the world by passengers, controlling about 8.6% of the total worldwide share of the cruise market by passengers . It is wholly owned by parent company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. History The cruise line was founded in 1966 by Norwegian Knut Kloster and Israeli Ted Arison, with the 8,666-ton, 140-m long cruise ship/car ferry, , which in 1966 operated as a car ferry between Southampton UK and Gibraltar, for that one short season only. The ''Sunward'' was first managed under the Arison Shipping Company, and marketed as Ensign Cruises. Arison soon left to form Carnival Cruise Lines, while Kloster acquired additional ships for Caribbean service, with the line renamed and marketed as Norwegian Caribbean Line. Norwegian Caribbean Line Norwegian pioneered many firsts in the cruise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Dreamward
MS ''Dreamward'' was a cruise ship owned and operated by Star Cruises. She was built in 1992 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France as MS ''Dreamward'' for traffic with Norwegian Cruise Line. In 1998 she was lengthened at Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany and renamed as ''Norwegian Dream''. In late 2012, she was transferred to the fleet of Star Cruises and renamed ''SuperStar Gemini''. History Concept and construction ''Dreamward'' was the first in a pair of two identical cruise ships ordered by Kloster Cruise for Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) from Chantiers de l'Atlantique. The sisters were planned with a gross tonnage of approximately 40,000, and maximum passenger capacity of 1,246 persons. However, they were also designed from the start with the concept of lengthening in mind, making it possible for the company to easily expand their capacity without having to order entirely new ships. The lengthening was eventually carried out in March–May 1998 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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