CUNARD. MS "Cunard Princess" cruise ship

CUNARD
MS Cunard Princess, registered in the Bahamas.

Postcard Q700 (Printed in U.S.A.)

The Cunard Princess cruise ship, whose hull was built by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen, Denmark, and launched on December 12, 1974 under the name Cunard Conquest. The ship was delivered to Cunard on October 30, 1975, and was transferred to La Spezia, Italy, where it was outfitted by Industrie Navali Meccaniche Affini. Work ended in March 1977 and the ship, registered in Southampton (United Kingdom) already under the name Cunard Princess, made its maiden voyage from New York to Bermuda in April 1977, and she cruised the Caribbean. In 1980 she had been registered in Nassau, Bahamas, and in the summer of 1981 she was posted to cruises in Alaska. During the Gulf War, the Cunard Princess was leased to the United States Armed Forces Recreation Center as a recreational facility for troops involved in the conflict; arrived in Bahrain on December 24, 1990. After her service in the Persian Gulf, she docked at Valletta, Malta, on September 23, 1991 and re-entered normal service with Cunard on October 19, 1991. In 1995 it was chartered to StarLauro Cruises, which needed a replacement for its MS Achille Lauro that had sunk in a fire in 1994; StarLauro acquired the ship, which she changed his name to Rhapsody and was registered in Panama (on October 1, 1995 StarLauro was renamed Mediterranean Shipping Cruises and later adopted the name MSC Cruises). After passing her down to other companies and changing her name several times, it was sold to Turkey for her demolition, which took place in Aliağa on July 11, 2022.

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