COSTA MARINA in Lisbon 2009-95-16

COSTA MARINA arriving Lisbon on a cruise in 16 May 2009. The light was really good and I had to move out of my bed at 6AM...
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SEABOURN PRIDE 2009-03-31

The SEABOURN PRIDE cruising off Lisbon on 31 March 2009 after the positioning crossing back to Europe to start another season in the Mediterranean...
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EURODAM OVERNIGHT STAY IN LISBON

As most cruise ships arrive Lisbon early in the morning and depart in the afternoon, an overnight stay provides the opportunity for different photographs with the evening light.
The EURODAM overnight maiden call was one of such situations. Photographs taken on 4 May 2009 between 19h30 and 20h40.
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DELPHIN VOYAGER 2009-05-04

Close up shots of the cruise ship DELPHIN VOYAGER in Lisbon, 2009-05-04.
First three photos show the ship alongside the Rocha Cruise Terminal ready for departure.
Three final pictures show the ship already moving from the terminal.
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SOLSTICE FUNNELS

The more attractive funnels on a new cruise ship for a long time: the two funnels of CELEBRITY SOLSTICE photographed in Lisbon on 27 April 2009.

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CELEBRITY SOLSTICE IN LISBON

The impressive modern look of Celebrity Cruises new flagship CELEBRITY SOLSTICE, another masterpiece of the Meyer Werft delivered on 24 October 2008.
Photographs taken at the mouth of river Tagus showing the SOLSTICE leaving Lisbon on her maiden call. She is scheduled to call in Lisbon again next year on 26 April, also on her transatlantic positioning voyage east.
The SOLSTICE will be based in the Mediterranean until November, homeported in Civitavecchia.
More photos of CELEBRITY SOLSTICE here.
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IVAN FRANKO in Lisbon

The Russian passenger liner and cruise ship IVAN FRANKO photographed in Lisbon in the 1980s.
The first of five sisters built in East Germany, IVAN FRANKO was introduced in 1964.
A curious fact is that she was painted with white hull for the builders sea trials, it was only afterwards that she was repainted black. Under Soviet Union operation she was managed and homeported in Odessa, Ukraine.
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COSTA MEDITERRANEA off Lisbon 2009-03-31

Costa cruises' COSTA MEDITERRANEA departing from Lisbon on 31 March 2009.
A nice ship with very impressive colours.
I do like classic ship liveries and Costa has changed little over the years.
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ATLANTIC STAR in Lisbon 2 April 2009

The cruise ship ATLANTIC STAR arrived Lisbon on 1st April 2009 to start a series of 7-day cruises based in Lisbon. She is seen here berthed at Alcântara cruise terminal taking in stores.
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ATLANTIC STAR in Lisbon

Close up photographs of Pullmantur's turbine steam cruise ship ATLANTIC STAR berthed in
Lisbon on
2 April 2009 taking in stores before
the start of her new season
of 7-day
Morocco
and Atlantic Islands
cruises
out of Lisbon
due to begin
on 5 April.
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BLACK PRINCE departing from Lisbon

Fred. Olsen's veteran cruise ship BLACK PRINCE of 1966 departing from Lisbon on 2 April 2009 on her final season before retirement later this year due to age and new SOLAS 2010 regulations.
The BLACK PRINCE is one of the cruise ships with more calls in Lisbon over the last 38 years.
In fact she started her regular presence in river Tagus waters on 18 October 1971 while doing regular two-week inter cruises from Rotterdam to Portugal, and the Atlantic Islands.
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FUNCHAL in Lisbon 23-02-2009

Close ups of the Classic International Cruises passenger liner FUNCHAL undergoing extensive refiting work in Lisbon where she arrived 12 October 2008.
Next return to service on 5 April 2009 from Lisbon on a Canary Islands 7-day Easter cruise.
FUNCHAL was the first cruise ship to be operated by Mr George Potamianos' Lisbon-based Classic International Cruises. She was purchased frm CTM in August 1985 and started her first CIC cruise in December 1985.
In November 1986 a second ship was purchased, the INFANTE DOM HENRIQUE, rebuilt in Lisbon and Greece 1986-1988 and introduced in November 1988 as VASCO DA GAMA.
This famous former Portuguese flagship was sold in 1995 to Cruise Holdings and replaced in 1996 by PRINCESS DANAE.
The fleet was further expanded with the purchase in 1999 of ARION, built 1965 as ISTRA, followed in 2004 by ATHENA, the former ITALIA PRIMA of 1994 (a ship rebuilt in Italy using the hul of the former STOCKHOLM of 1948) and in 2007 the PRINCESS DAPHNE ex-OCEAN MONARCH.
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SAGA RUBY in Lisbon 2009-01-02

The first cruise ship to arrive in Lisbon in 2009 was the SAGA RUBY on the 2nd January. She docked at the Alcântara terminal on the final leg of the Christmas & New Year cruise 2008.
The SAGA RUBY has been calling in Lisbon since 22 September 1973, then a brand new ship in original name as VISTAFJORD. She was renamed CARONIA in 1999 and SAGA RUBY in 2004.
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VISTAFJORD in Lisbon 1976-01-03

The Norwegian America Line final passenger ship VISTAFJORD of 1973 photographed in Lisbon in 3rd January 1976 while on a Christmas and New Year cruise. She did her first call in Lisbon on 22 September 1973.
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