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ssMaritime - Calling all Ship Lovers -
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Support Classic Cruise Ships
In 2010 & 2011 Go and Cruise in Classic Style
ssMaritime is supporting Cruise Companies that
have spent a great deal on their classic ships, keeping these fine ships up to
date, not only in regard to safety regulations and navigational equipment, but
also upgrading and refitting their ships to the highest degree making them some
of the most comfortable and desirable ships at sea today!
I can assure you that these ships are superbly maintained as I have personally inspected a number of the ships featured on these pages over the years and all I can say that these ships may even place some of the major Companies and the modern giant cruise ships to shame in certain aspects! On one particular ship expect a bath in every single spacious cabin, some are even equipped with Jacuzzis, and enjoy the walk around decks featured on most of these ships, something that is slowly disappearing on the modern cruise ships.
There is no doubt that three of the ships featured in this feature have been extensively rebuilt and thus they may no longer completely resemble their old selves, however, I can assure you that they still retain many of their superb classic features within their hulls, especially their excellent sea going capabilities and those strong steel hulls!
The elegant MV Princess Daphne cruising
From the author’s collection
In addition, when you board a classic ship you will know that you are on a real ship as they have strong hulls with deep draught’s, thus they have superb sea going capabilities, rather than on one of those huge flat bottomed box like apartment/condominium blocks, come shopping centres, or floating resorts. A true classic ship was built as ship and then had a hotel placed inside it, whereas today, these monstrous vessels are built in sections and are assembled in a huge shed and floated out, rather than a true launching. Thus they are designed as floating hotels, rather than ships first.
The Ships:
Why not go cruising on an ex Swedish Trans
Atlantic liner built in 1948, or on one of two superb ex British Combo
Passenger/Cargo Ships built in 1955, later converted into excellent Cruise
Ships. Then there is the delightful ex Italian Adriatica Line Liner built in
1956, or a Portuguese Trans Atlantic Liner and ex Presidential Yacht built in
1961. These ships, and others, continue to cruise the world and they are fully
SOLAS 2010 compliant and will cruise on for many years as yet. In fact I know
that schedules for most of these ships have already been planned for 2012.
Ships Names and Cruise Companies included:
The ships above are listed according to the
year of being built. First is the famed MS Stockholm, currently the MV
Athena, next is the MS Port Sydney and MS Port Melbourne,
currently the MV Princess Daphne and MV Princess Danae. Adriatica
Lines MS San Giorgio was more recently the poplar MV Royal Star, but she
is currently the PV Ocean Mist and cruises the Indian Ocean out of
The pages that follow will provide details of these superb classic ships that genuine ship lovers should support and we should plan a cruise on one of these this, or next year.
The author hopes to sail on the MV Athena
in March 2011 from
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Who is the Author of ssMaritime?
Commenced in the Passenger Shipping
Industry in May 1960
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1. Where Classic Liners Make History
– 2. The 1914 built MV Doulos
Photographs on
ssmaritime and ssmaritime.net are: 1. By the author.
2. From the author’s private collection. 3. As provided by Shipping
Companies and private photographers. Credit is given to all contributors.
However, there are photographs provided to me without details provided
regarding the photographer concerned. I hereby invite if owners of these images
would be so kind to make them-selves known to me, that due credit may be given.
I know what it is like, I have seem a multitude of my own photographs on other
sites, yet they either refuse to give me credit and even refuse to remove them,
knowing full well that there is no legal comeback when it comes to the net.
However, let us show the charlatans up and do the right thing at all times and
give credit where credit is due!
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