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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 25, 2011 20:49:17 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Feb 13, 2012 19:56:00 GMT -8
Billiards table on the Radiance of the Seas:
- the table that adjusts to the ship's rolling.
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Post by lmtengs on Feb 13, 2012 23:01:30 GMT -8
The secret to those tables is a huge lead weight beneath them, attached like a pendulum.
The Pacific Swift had a table like this in the hold. It's about 6 feet long by 2.5 feet wide, and the weight below it is around 600 lbs, so it must be insanely heavy on this giant pool table.
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Post by WettCoast on Feb 16, 2012 22:56:20 GMT -8
From time to time I will put up an 'historical' cruise ship photo taken mostly by Mr. DOT, but occasionally by me, also. Veendam - Holland America Lines - exiting Vancouver Harbour under Lions Gate Bridge - viewed from Prospect Point, Stanley Park - 21 June 1980. She was heading out on an Alaskan cruise. HAL likes to re-cycle their ship names...  photo © JST - Kodachrome 80-7-33 - Nikon-VueScan by Wett Coast, on Flickr[/size] |
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Post by mrdot on Feb 17, 2012 12:22:03 GMT -8
:)to my mind, these early holland america- alaska cruise- ex. moore mc-cormack liners were among the best looking, and the ideal moderate size for this trip! this company like our ferries, has been thru several rebrandings! :)mrdot.
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Post by Kahloke on Feb 17, 2012 12:27:16 GMT -8
:)to my mind, these early holland america- alaska cruise- ex. moore mc-cormack liners were among the best looking, and the ideal moderate size for this trip! this company like our ferries, has been thru several rebrandings! :)mrdot. I'll be able to give everyone a first-hand glimpse of what Holland America is like these days when we go on our Alaska Cruise on the M/S Westerdam this summer. I've never been on a cruise before so this should be exciting. I promise to take lots of photos. |
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Post by WettCoast on Feb 17, 2012 13:20:28 GMT -8
Sun Princess (Princess Cruises) - exiting Vancouver Harbour off of West Van shoreline en route to Inside Passage - viewed from Prospect Point, Stanley Park - 21 June 1980.  photo © JST - Kodachrome 80-7-31 - Nikon-VueScan] by Wett Coast, on Flickr[/size] This ship was originally the Spirit of London & sailed for Princess Cruises' parent company, P&O.
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Post by mrdot on Feb 17, 2012 14:36:41 GMT -8
:)this good looking slide was the basis of my original drawing which used to hang in one of the P&O offices downtown, and I still have an original which perhaps can be scanned. we did a short trip on her and later on the first 'sea princess', these were a much better size on the alaska cruise! :)mrdot.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Feb 17, 2012 16:09:32 GMT -8
Cruising is awesome! We love it I have been on three cruises and loved all of them. Never been with Holland America! If I was to go with them I would probably go on the Westerdam or the Oosterdam which are the bigger ships of that line.
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Post by Mirrlees on Feb 17, 2012 17:34:40 GMT -8
[/size] This ship was originally the Spirit of London & sailed for Princess Cruises' parent company, P&O.[/quote] I love this shot of Sun Princess ex-Spirit of London! She's been cheating Alang for a few years now, but has a gig doing cruises around Singapore. For how long, who knows, it will be a sad day when she inevitably winds up on the beach. |
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Post by mrdot on Feb 17, 2012 20:28:53 GMT -8
:)the cruise ships that are particularly vunerable to the alung recyclers are the older construction, especially if they were steam powered, and preceded modern diesel drive. But I am afraid some of the newer construction is not safe as new age, often the economy of large scale, rather ugly and not shipshape tonnage, will predestine these vessels to an early disposal :'(mrdot.
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Post by WettCoast on Feb 19, 2012 21:46:49 GMT -8
M/S Sagafjord of Cunard Cruises @ Ketchikan, Alaska - 2 August 1985. This vessel entered service in 1965 originally with the Norwegian Amerca Line (NAL). In 1983 Cunard took over NAL, and this vessel became a Cunard liner. She was considered one of the finest liners/cruisers of her time.  photo © JST - Kodachrome 85-10-08 - Kodachrome - Nikon-VueScan by Wett Coast, on Flickr[/size] And about six years earlier, in Vancouver Harbour, when sailing for NAL... From the camera of Mr. DOT.  photo © DOT by Wett Coast, on Flickr[/size]
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Post by Mirrlees on Feb 19, 2012 22:38:54 GMT -8
Unfortunately, we lost Sagafjord last year. Her final name was Saga Rose. She went to the scrappers in China.  Her sister Vistafjord is still around now known as Saga Ruby and does exclusive cruises for the over 50 crowd. |
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Post by WettCoast on Feb 21, 2012 21:37:28 GMT -8
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Post by mrdot on Feb 21, 2012 22:40:21 GMT -8
:)yes, the Island Princess, one of the original 'love boats' of that past era, has the distinction of having the ferry authority of the day, having to relinquish, or rather amend their name for purposes of the british registry, and P&O donated a builders model of the 1954 Arcadia to the maritime museum for the jesture! :)a nice aside from the other weak-kneed stuff! :)mrdot.
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Post by Neil on Feb 21, 2012 22:40:21 GMT -8
Somebody needs to put an APB out for Ernie, aka Mill Bay. I think there's an argument to be made that these vessels WC has been treating us to recently were among the last to carry on the legacy of the elegant old liners. Even though there were some carbuncle-like attachments showing up above the bridge line, they still had a lot of the grace of the older ocean liners. I've always thought the '60s was a a pretty good era for ship design in general.
Not sure Mill Bay would agree, though.
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Post by Scott on Feb 21, 2012 23:13:45 GMT -8
I agree with Neil. It would be interesting to see a picture of one of these older cruise ships beside one of the behemoths of modern cruising for a comparison of size and design.
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Post by Name Omitted on Mar 7, 2012 22:27:04 GMT -8
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Post by WettCoast on Apr 12, 2012 13:26:13 GMT -8
Seven Seas Mariner outbound under Lions Gate Bridge from Vancouver Harbour - c Summer 2002. Perhaps Mr. DOT can fill in some history on this ship, what company operates her, whether she is of the same line as the Seven Seas Navigator that I saw a few years ago near Ketchikan, etc.  photo © Mr. DOT by Wett Coast, on Flickr[/size]
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Post by WettCoast on Apr 16, 2012 21:01:51 GMT -8
Carnival Cruise Lines' Carnival Spirit entering Vancouver Harbour - summer 2002  photo © Mr. DOT by Wett Coast, on Flickr[/size] Princess/P&O Cruise Lines' Star Princess in Vancouver Harbour outbound at start of an Inside Passage to Alaska cruise - also summer 2002. This ship was brand new in April of 2002, & only a few months old at the time of this photo. In 2006, while cruising in the Carribean, there was a serious fire aboard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Princess photo © Mr. DOT by Wett Coast, on Flickr[/size] |
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Post by Koastal Karl on Apr 16, 2012 21:39:01 GMT -8
The first cruise ship of the season is due here in Victoria on Wednesday. The Crystal Serenity. Norwegian Pearl will be here May 4th I think.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 28, 2012 18:57:38 GMT -8
From a 1969 publication by the Vancouver Real Estate Board, “Through Lions Gate.” General photographs credit in the book is to Ted Czolowski. I purchased the book for $3 at a local Rotary Club book sale, just for the interesting “back in the day” photos. Noted as a P&O ship.  |
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Post by mrdot on Apr 28, 2012 20:12:54 GMT -8
:)the aerial shot of the P&O ship is the second to last Orient liner to come here, the Orsova, and the Princess of Vancouver rounding Brocton Pt. lite is also from the same timeframe, the downtown scene that does not seem that long ago to me. kind of dates me doesn't it! :)mrdot.
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Post by Low Light Mike on May 5, 2012 9:54:17 GMT -8
Norwegian Pearl at Nanaimo this morning. - more to come, later today and in the days to come.... (I had fun being at Jack Point to watch her arrival)  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on May 5, 2012 18:22:55 GMT -8
Norwegian Pearl with BCFerry Queen of Alberni - 7:00am off of Nanaimo  ---------------- A little bit later, the cruise ship arrives in Nanaimo harbour at the same time as the morning rush of seaplanes depart. - this is a Tofino Air DeHavilland Beaver, shown off her bow.  |
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