Cruise Ships and Liners

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Carnival Glory berthed at St.Thomas on 9th December 2009.

Looking along the harbour side of Sam Miguel on Cozomel,Mexico towards one of the cruise ship terminals on 4th December 2009.A group of three cruise ships are in the misty distance while a navy patrol boat (pennant Number 1143) is in the foreground.

Carnival Cruise Lines Carnival Valor seen at Cozomel,Mexico on 4th December 2009.

Maasdam,Ventura and Seranade of the Seas at St. Phillipsburg,St Maarten on 1st.December 2008.

Sea Cloud II behind Ventura at Bridgetown on 5th December 2008.

The storm clouds are brewing above the sand dunes as cruise ships Carnival Splendour and Ventura at Grand Turk on 26th November 2008.

Marella Explorer passing Calshot Spit outbound from Southampton on 21st June 2021.

SAGA's Spirit of Discovery passing Battery Point, Portishead outbound from Royal Portbury Docks (Avonmouth) to Hugh Town, Scilly Isles on 21st June 2021.

Marella Explorer outbound from Southampton to Belfast passing Calshot Spit on 9th July 2021.

CMVs Magellan outbound from Portbury Docks on a British Isles Cruise passing Battery Point on the evening of 27th March 2018.

Oriana on her penultimate cruise for P&O anchored off St.Peter Port on 21st July 2019

A Sad sight for traditional British cruise lovers.Piano Land formerly P&Os Oriana ready to sail to its new owners in China, Well Star Travel Cruises, a wholly owned Chinese Government Company.Berth 104 Southampton 15th August 2019.

Monarch of the Seas at Berth 38/39 Southampton.She was,at 73,941 GT, one of the largest cruise ships in the world at time of her completion in 1991 at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyards in Saint-Nazaire, France.. second of three Sovereign-class cruise ships owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. As of April 1, 2013, Monarch is operated by RCCL's Pullmantur Cruises brand..(Scanned from a 35mm transparency)

AIDAprima in the Solent in the early morning of 29th August 2016,inbound for Southampton

P&Os Adonia outbound from Southampton on 12th July 2017 unusually taking the North Channel in the Solent.

Hanseatic outbound from Avonmouth passing Battery Point,Portishead on 13th June 2016.

An inbound Koningsdam in the early morning passing South Shields at Tynemouth on 16th August 2016.

AIDAvita departing the Tyne in the early morning of the 16th August 2016 and passing South Tyneside.

The ships bell from the Stockholm,now CMVs Azores,as presented to the Azores and on display on the ship.

Jewel of the Seas departing Harwich on 26th July 2012.

Deutschland passing Calshot Spit outbound from Southampton on 16th April 2016.On 19 May 2015 the MS Deutschland was sold to the Absolute Nevada company based in the United States, which purchased the ship for approximately $21 million.Initially the ship was planned to serve as a floating university for the American organization Semester at Sea and in the process was reflagged to Nassau in the Bahamas. It was proposed that the ship would be renamed World Odyssey following a refit at a northern European shipyard.n 31 May 2015, Plantours announced that they would be chartering the ship for four sailings between 9 June 2015 and 29 July 2015 whilst its usual ship MS Hamburg was repaired. The crew of MS Hamburg travelled to Gibraltar to prepare the ship, before guests embarked on 9 June 2015 in Kiel. It was on this occasion that MS Deutschland began sailing under the Bahamas flag.

Southampton departures 12th July 2015.

Azamara Quest off St.Peter Port on 5th July 2015.

Aurora outbound from Southampton to Zeebrugge passing Calshot Spit on 3rd June 2015.

Royal Caribbeans new cruise ship Anthem of the Seas passing Dock Head Southampton on 3rd May 2015 on a short cruise to Zeebrugge.

Southampton celebrated 175yrs of Cunard on 3rd May 2015 with the three Queens departing from Southampton together in line astern formation down Southampton Water.Queen Victoria is passing Dock Head.

MSC Opera passing Calshot Spit outbound from Southampton on 15th June 2013.