Tuesday, July 18, 2017

EUROPA 2 in Lisbon




The cruise ship EUROPA 2 arriving in Lisbon mid-day on 18th July 2017, for another overnight call. More images of the EUROPA 2 by Luís Miguel Correia hereTexto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

Saturday, July 08, 2017

AURORA off Lisbon


The P&O Cruises AURORA leaving Lisbon on 7th May 2017. Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia



Friday, July 07, 2017

CORINTHIAN underway in Lisbon

Expedition cruise ship CORINTHIAN photographed while underway in Lisbon on 5th May 2017. The CORINTHIAN is now cruising under her fourth name: built in Italy as RENAISSANCE FOUR in 1990, she became the CLELIA II in 1996,  and the ORION II in 2011 before renaming in 2014 under her present name.Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

Friday, May 12, 2017

SILVER SPIRIT in Lisbon






The cruise ship SILVER SPIRIT photographed in Lisbon on 12 April 2017 ending her positioning transatlantic crossing in order to star a new cruise season in European waters. Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

Monday, October 24, 2016

DISNEY WONDER in Lisbon

Disney Cruise Lines cruise ship DISNEY WONDER arriving Lisbon on 24 October 2016 on her first call, a technical call for bunkering before sailing back home accross the Atlantic Ocean.

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Friday, September 09, 2016

AURORA outbound from Lisbon


Despite her sad looking blue and bowflag livery, the AURORA still provides a very pleasant profile seen here underway on the evening of 8 September 2016, outbound from the river Tagus after another day alongside Lisbon Cruise Terminal. It is hard to believe AURORA is already 16 year old. Photographs by Luís Miguel Correia as usual. Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia



Friday, June 10, 2016

Pullmantur's MONARCH leaving Lisbon


Malta registered cruise ship MONARCH sailing from Lisbon on her first call on 9th June 2016 at the end of a positioning crossing of the Atlantic, from Willemstad. It his the first time the ship visits Lisbon since built in 1991 as Royal Caribbean's MONARCH OF THE SEAS. Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia



Wednesday, June 08, 2016

MARINA off Lisbon on 2016-06-07


The cruise ship MARINA arriving Lisbon very early in the morning of 7th June 2016. A nice angle of this shipoperated by Oceania Cruises. Photograph by Luís Miguel Correia. More MARINA images here Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

Thursday, April 07, 2016

BALMORAL off Lisbon on 6th April 2016


Fred. Olsen Cruise Line's flagship BALMORAL sailing from Lisbon on 6 April 2016 looking great in her new livery. Photos taken by Luís Miguel Correia off the mouth of the river Tagus. Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia


Monday, January 12, 2015

COSTA FASCINOSA in Lisbon


Italian cruise ship COSTA FASCINOSA photographed in Lisbon on 10 January 2015 on the second of four calls scheduled for January and February 2015 in Lisbon in 2015.
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Friday, December 12, 2014

QUEEN MARY 2 in Lisbon

The magnificent passenger liner and cruise ship QUEEN MARY 2 arriving Lisbon on 9 December 2014 on another visit to one of Cunard's favourite european ports.



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Monday, September 29, 2014

EXPEDITION in Lisbon

GAP ADVENTURES expedition cruise ship EXPEDITION visited Lisbon 23 to 27 September 2014 on a technicall call and positioning voyage without passengers. Photographs taken at Rocha Passenger Terminal at 10 AM 27 September on her departure to the South Atlantic.
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

DISCOVERY nearing her end...

Cruise ship DISCOVERY departing from Lisbon on 18 September 2014. She is going to do her final cruise soon and afterwards she is bound for scrap after a career spanning along 42 years and several names.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2014

JASON in Lisbon 7 August 1993


The handsome Greek cruise ship JASON arriving Lisbon on 7 August 1993 on a cruise around Europe chartered by German operator Phoenix Reisen who already operated the MAXIM GORKIY since 1988. JASON was built in Italy as the third of three sisters delivered in 1965-66 to the Hellenic Board of Tourism (Greek Government)  and built alongside EUGENIO C in Monfalcone. 

Jason was delivered on 22 February 1966 as the passenger ro-ro ferry EROS and sold the same year to Epirotiki Lines who renamed her JASON and converted the ship for cruising. She had a long career under the Epirotiki houseflag cruising in the Greek Isles and a bit around most of the world, from the North Cape to the Caribbean. In 2005 she became the OCEAN ODYSSEY following sale to Indian interests and in fact inSeptember 2006 she started a brief caree cruising in India waters but on 29 July 2009 she arrived at Alang for breaking up. Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia 

MSC OPERA and FUNCHAL in Lisbon


The cruise ships MSC OPERA and FUNCHAL passing eachother on the river Tagus off Lisbon Santa Apolónia Cruise Terminal on the afternoon of 2 September 2014.
The FUNCHAL arrived from Falmouth and departed at midnight for Malaga while the MSC OPERA made another of her regular calls on the program od summer cruises she is operating visiting Lisbon every ten days. Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia



Tuesday, July 29, 2014

MSC OPERA leaving Lisbon on 24 July 2014

The cruise ship MSC OPERA departing from Lisbon on 24 July 2014 photographed by Luís Miguel Correia. This is one of several ships making regular summer calls in Lisbon this year.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2014

EUROPA 2 in Lisbon 30 June 2014


The new Hapag-Lloyd flagship EUROPA 2 visited Lisbon once again and I took these photographs at departure time.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

EUROPA leaving Lisbon 10 June 2014


The cruise ship EUROPA photographed by Luis Miguel Correia outbound from Lisbon on 10 June 2014 after her single call in Lisbon for this year. However her new running mate EUROPA 2 has four calls for 2014. 
Since I started photographing the cruise ships in Lisbon more than 40 years ago, I have photographed 4 different Hapag lloyd cruise ships named EUROPA, including EUROPA 2: the EUROPA from 1965, the former KUNGSHOLM of 1953, the brand new EUROPA of 1981 and 1999, and more recently the EUROPA 2.
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Thursday, May 08, 2014

AIDAMAR on the river Tagus bar


The AIDA Cruises passenger motor ship AIDAMAR sailing from Lisbon late on the evening of 7 May 2014.
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Monday, February 10, 2014

AZORES arriving Lisbon

The Portuguese cruise ship AZORES arriving in Lisbon for the first time under her new name and livery, on 7th February 2014.
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