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Ocean Monarch
''Ocean Monarch'' is the name of a number of ships. * , a barque that caught fire in 1848 with the loss of nearly 180 lives * , Russell and Co., Port Glasgow. * , a Furness, Withy ship * , a Shaw, Savill & Albion ship * ''Ocean Monarch'' (1955), the previous name of the cruise ship '' Princess Daphne'' {{ship index Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Daphne (ship)
The MS ''Princess Daphne'', formerly ''Ocean Monarch'', ''Ocean Odyssey'', ''Switzerland'', ''Daphne'', ''Akrotiri Express''. was a medium-sized cruise ship. She had originally been the Reefer ship, refrigerated cargo ship ''Port Sydney''. Her sister ship was MS Princess Danae, ''Princess Danae'', which was built as ''Port Melbourne''. History Swan Hunter, Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson built her in Wallsend, England as a refrigerated cargo ship for Port Line. She was launched on 29 October 1954 and completed in March 1955. Between 1972 and 1974, she was converted into a cruise ship at Chalkis Shipyard, Piraeus, Greece. She served as a hospital ship in Sri Lanka in 2005. It was announced on 14 June 2014 that the Princess Daphne had arrived in Alang India under the name ''Daphne'' for Ship breaking, scrapping, following a voyage from the Cretan port of Souda, where she was laid up in September 2012. She was given back to the Patimanios brothers by the bank following the sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
