Transatlantic Tom
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"...Princess has made no announcement but according to sources in Bermuda it may have something to do with the new trades the ships are shifting to in Singapore and the Far East as there may be some fiscal advantage to UK registry in Far East and Australian waters..."
A tiny ripple on the Princess forum: http://cruiseforums.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2012732
Very interesting. Thank you for this information.
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Great news, Frank, on you participating in the 10th Anniversary festivities ! Delighted to hear your good thoughts on Britannia...
I was very surprised to hear of a company RETURNING to British registry...especially in light of Cunard's change a couple of years ago. Money, taxes, regulations all would seem to encourage the opposite action.
I sure remember Princess ships registered in London...P&O ships registered in the UK, too.
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Princess has recently reflagged the DIAMOND PRINCESS and SAPPHIRE PRINCESS, and their registry is now London. Is there any chance that Cunard might return to once again being able to use their old motto of, "Great ships of British registry since 1840"? I for one would greatly appreciate such a return to British registry.
Frank:
Wow...London as port of registry ! Do you have any information as to why this was done ?? I never thought that I'd live to see the day...
Tom
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I sailed aboard the ITALIA in the summer of 1968 - my first cruise. It was on the then fairly new Princess Cruises, and the ship was brand new. It was a 14-day Mexico cruise out of Los Angeles, with port visits to La Paz, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, and Acapulco. They gave each cruise a unique name; ours was called the "Mariachi Cruise" !!
The ship mostly did Mexico cruises in those early years, but then slipped into doing Alaska cruises as quickly as 1970. I know this as my family visited some friends aboard the ship in Vancouver in June 1970 while she was on an Alaska cruise.
I also remember that the port of registry on the ship's stern was "Cagliari".
A very nice ship, certainly small by today's mega-ship standards. I wish we had a few more ships such as this - of a more modest size - to select from.
Godspeed SAPPHIRE/ITALIA !!!
Tom
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I was lucky enough to sail aboard this wonderful ship - as Matson Lines' SS Lurline - in the summer of 1969. We went from Los Angeles to San Francisco to Honolulu. She was a legend in the Pacific.
My family had reservations to sail on the Lurline again in the summer of 1970, but a telephone call in the spring of '70 from our travel agent, informing us that Matson was selling the ship, ended that dream.
There used to be a story going around Hawaii in the 1970s that the people of Honolulu -who had for many decades known one Matson passenger ship or another with the name of Lurline - never quite forgave the Matson Line for selling off the last of the passenger ships of that name.
The name still lives on with a container ship in the fleet of Matson Navigation Company sailing between the West Coast and Hawaii.
Tom
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QM2 Halifax-Boston Cruise: Tropical Storm Arthur
in Cunard Line
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Too early to tell yet from forecasts, but things could get lively weatherwise-wise for QM2 Friday-Saturday. Current projections have the storm near New England those days as the ship is in port at Boston, then making her way around Cape Cod on her way back to NY.