Cruise Ships and Liners

Island Princess outbound for Haugesand passing Calshot Spit on 13th June 2022.

Ambassador Cruises Ambience seen on berth at Tilbury on 10th August 2024.

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An arial view of the bow of Pullmanturs Pacific Dream at Phillipsburg,St.Martin on 10th December 2009.This was Celebrity's first new ship when delivered in 1990 asHorizon.In 2005 she became Island Star.In 2009 she was transferred to Pullmantur and becmae Pacific Dream.In 2010 she aws given her original name of Horizon and in 2012 was transferred to Croisieres De France after a major refit.

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

Holland America Lines Cruise ship Westerdam and Carnivals Carnival Conquest anchored off Grand Cayman on 3rd December 2009.

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

Grandeur of the Seas off St. Kitts at sunset on 29th November 2008.

Ventura and the distant Grandeur of the Seas off St. Kitts at sunset on 29th November 2008.

Virgin Cruises new cruise ship Virgin Lady at berth in Liverpool on 25th February.

Marella Explorer 2 passing Calshot Spit outbound from Southampton to Vlissingenz on 26th June 2020.

Spirit of Discovery inbound for Royal Portbury Docks, Avonmouth on 14th July 2021 having past Battery Point, Portishead.

Variety Voyager outbound from Avonmouth passing Battery Point ,Portishead on the evening of 13th June 2019.

NCLs Norwegian Spirit passing Calshot Spit outbound from Southampton on 14th June 2019 bound for Stavanger.

Sapphire Princess passing Calshot Spit outbound from Southampton on 23rd June 2018.

Berlin arriving at Southampton.(scanned from a 35mm transparency)

Vasco Da Gamma arriving at Southampton.The ship was delivered in 1961 as the Infante Dom Henrique to Colonial de Navegaçeo and built at Société Anonyme Cockerill-Ougrée, Hoboken , Belgium.In 1974 the name of the shipping company was changed to Cia Portuguesa de Transportes Maritimos . This resulted from the merger of two shipping companies. In early January 1976,she was decommissioned in Lisbon and sold to Gabinete da Area de Sines (GAS) and used as a workers' accommodation at Sines.In 1977,the ship was overhauled for $ 10m and opened in November 1977 as a floating hotel.The ship was renovated for US $ 50m at Piraeus and renamed Vasco da Gama .The Vasco da Gama was chartered by Neckermann Reisen for cruises from Bremerhaven..(Scanned from a 35mm transparency)

The CMV cruise ship Columbus departing Tilbury for Amsterdam and Antwerp on 25th August 2017.(As seen from Tilbury). MV Columbus is the seventh cruise ship of Cruise & Maritime Voyages.

Koningsdam at her berth on the Tyne on 16th august 2016.The DFDS ferry King Seaways is astern of her.

Astor passing the North Tyneside ferry terminal and nearing her berth on the Tyne on 16th august 2016.

Welcome aboard RMS St.Helena at Tilbury on 11th June 2016.

Brilliance of the Seas on her berth at Harwich on 10th August 2015.

Views of AIDAprima leaving Southampton at dusk of 27th April 2016.

Emerald Princess outbound from Southampton on 23rd April 2016 passing Calshot Spit bound for Guernsey.

Southampton departures 12th July 2015.

P&Os Arcadia passing Calshot Spit on 19th August 2006 outbound from Southampton.Note original stern arrangement.

Euorodam passing Calshot Spit outbound from Southampton on 28th June 2008.

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 Mary 2 is passing Dock Head.

Queen Mary 2 passing Calshot Spit on 13th July 2012.

Cruise ship Azores operating for Cruise and Maritme Voyages (C.M.V.) passing Battery Point,Portishead outbound from Avonmouth on 14th March 2015.After Andrea Doria sank, Stockholm sailed to New York City under her own power and arrived on July 27. The crushed bow portion was repaired at a cost of US$1 million three months later.On 3 January 1960, the Stockholm was sold to the East German government, who renamed the ship Völkerfreundschaft and operated her as an ocean liner until 1985. In 1985 she was transferred to a Panamanian company "Neptunas Rex Enterprises". Her name was reduced to Volker, and by the end of the year she was laid up in Southampton, England. She was later used as a barracks ship in Oslo for asylum seekers in Norway under the name Fridtjof Nansen.