GRAND VICTORIA IN LISBON 22-08-2006

Several views of the cruise ship GRAND VICTORIA taken in Lisbon on 22-08-2006. She was built in France as the RENAISSANCE for Paquet Cruises and between 1977 and 25 had a long spell under the ownership of Epirotiki and Royal Olympic Cruises, with 3 years in Indonesia as the AWANI DREAM in between.
Copyright photos by Luis Miguel Correia - 2006

QM2 IN LISBON

The Cunard flagship QUEEN MARY 2 has visited Lisbon again on 9 August 2006 and here are some photos taken by Luís Miguel Correia.

THE SAME SHIP - A DIFFERENT LOOK

The French Lines' DE GRASSE photographed in Lisbon in the early fifties on a cruise from Le Havre and the same ship under her final name as Siosa Line VENEZUELA again docking in Lisbon in the late fifties.

Copyright photos - Luís Miguel Correia collection -2006

THE WESTERDAM UNDERWAY

The Westerdam off the Portuguese coast on her way out of Lisbon, 26-09-2005

THE SAME SHIP - A DIFFERENT LOOK

Some passenger ships look just like cats: they have seven lifes. One such example is the STOCKHOLM of 1948, still sailing as the ATHENA in Classic International Cruises livery. I first photographed her in Lisbon in the mid seventies when she used to cruise from Goteborg under charter to Stena Line as the VOLKERFEUNDSCHAFT. Here she is underway in the river Tagus in 1985 and again in Lisbon twenty years later as the rebuilt ATHENA.

Copyright photographs by Luís Miguel Correia - 2006

THE SAGA RUBY arriving in LISBON

One of the main attractions on a cruise to Lisbon is the scennic viewing of the city and the river Tagus as seen from aboard the ships on their arrival.

A frequent visitor to Lisbon is SAGA HOLYDAYS' SAGA RUBY, depicted here in several photos taken by L. M. Correia on 4th May 2006.

The SAGA RUBY called Lisbon for the first time on 22nd September 1973 in her original form as Norwegian America Line VISTAFJORD.

After 33 years of continous cruise service she still looks a handsome ship and the present livery is particularly attractive.

From top to bottom: The SAGA RUBY has just embarked the harbour pilot off Algés, sails past the Belém Tower, upriver to pass under the Tagus bridge and dock at the nearby Alcântara cruise terminal

Text and photos by Luís Miguel Correia - 2006

CRUISE SHIPS AND LISBON

The QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 leaving Lisbon on one of her frequent calls while cruising from Southampton
Copyright photo by Luís Miguel Correia

Lisbon is a major port for cruise ships with a long tradition in passenger shipping ever since the first great steamship companies were established in the eighteen thirties and forties with the purpose of mail and passengers transportation.

Household names in the early years of modern passenger steamship operations like the P&O - Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Co., or the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, were among the first to bring their passenger ships to Lisbon.

Nowadays the old traditions are renewed by visits of cruise ships to Lisbon in increasing numbers.

With this blog the Editor intends to publish news and images related to passenger and cruise ships in Lisbon over the years...

Luís Miguel Correia