Postcard published by Microart's, Recco, Cod. 055509.
The Costa Riviera was a historic cruise ship operated by Costa Crociere from 1984 until 2002. Originally built in 1963 as the passenger liner SS Guglielmo Marconi, she was rebuilt into a dedicated cruise ship and sailed Caribbean and European itineraries before being sold for scrap in 2002.
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MS Astor was a cruise built in 1987 under the name by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) in Kiel for the Mauritius-based Marlan Corporation, although originally ordered by the South African Safmarine as a combined ocean liner/cruise ship for the Southampton-Cape Town service. In 1988, she was sold to the Soviet Union-based Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Fedor Dostoevskiy, but spent her time under charter to various West German cruise lines. In 1995, she reverted to the name, Astor. From 1996 until 2020, she operated under charter to Transocean Tours. Astor was sold at auction by C.W. Kellock London Ltd. on 15 October 2020.
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Advertising postcard published by KKP.
The Finnhansa ferry was built by the Stocznia Gdańska shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, and launched on 14 September 1993. It operated between Helsinki and Lübeck and between Helsinki and Travemünde, Germany. In 2014, it was sold to the Italian Grimaldi Group, renamed Euroferry Egnazia, and used on various Mediterranean routes. Transferred to Trasmediterránea (Spain) in January 2022, it was renamed Ciudad de Alcudia. Since April 2024, it has operated under the Cypriot flag as the Alcudia Express and is based in the port of Limassol.
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Braemar Castle was built and launched in 1952 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast (Northern Ireland) with a tonnage of 17029grt, a length of 576 ft 5 in, a beam of 74ft 3in and a service speed of 17.5 knots. She was employed in the Round Africa service. At the end 1965 she was sold for breaking at Faslane (Scotland) on 6 January 1966.
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Postage stamp issued by the Canada Post in 2023.
MV Spirit of British Columbia is an S-class ferry, part of the BC Ferries fleet active along the British Columbia coast. The ship was completed in 1993 and serves the Tsawwassen–Swartz Bay. In late 2017, Spirit of British Columbia departed for Poland to undergo its mid-life refit. The refit included conversion to dual-fuel propulsion. The $140 million refit was completed by Remontowa Ship Repair Yard in Gdańsk. The ferry returned to service in June 2018.
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Postcard published by Verlag Schöning & Co, Lübeck.
The Konung Gustav V was a Swedish railway ferry that operated in the Baltic Sea from 1910 to 1968. It was launched in June 1909 at the Lindholmens Verkstad shipyard in Gothenburg for the Swedish State Railways (Statens Järnvägar). The ferry could accommodate up to 18 passenger cars on two tracks totaling 165 meters in length and had space for up to 975 passengers. It began regular service on 14 March 1910, on the so-called "King's Line" between Trelleborg (Sweden) and Sassnitz (Rügen, Germany), which had been inaugurated on 6 July 1909. From November 1945, the Konung Gustav V operated a ferry service from Trelleborg (Sweden) to Gdańsk (Poland), and from April 25, 1946, to the Polish port of Gdynia. During this service, more than 1,300 railway cars were transported to Poland, provided by Sweden as a contribution to postwar reconstruction. In July 1959 the Konung Gustav V was withdrawn from regular service, and in 1968 it was sold for scrap and scrapped in Ystad (southern Sweden).
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Postcard published by Pergamino (1966).
The ferry Ibn Batouta was launched at the Seine-Maritime shipyards (France) on 10 March 1966, and entered service on 15 July of that year on the Tangier-Málaga route. Later, it was transferred to the Tangier-Algeciras route, from which it occasionally departed to make pilgrimage trips to Mecca. In June 1998, the Ibn Batouta was sold to the Bright Eclipse company and registered in São Tomé under the new name Valentina. In September of the same year, the vessel was detained in the Greek port of Piraeus on charges of human smuggling and was eventually sold for scrap. In November 2001, it arrived in Aliaga (Turkey), where it was dismantled.
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Postcards published by Hans Andres Verlag, Hamburg.
This ship was built in 1929–1930 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde, Scotland, for Canadian Pacific Steamships. Originally named Empress of Japan, it regularly sailed the transpacific route between the west coast of Canada and the Far East until 1942, when it was renamed Empress of Scotland. In 1958, it was acquired by the Hamburg Atlantic Line and extensively rebuilt, then renamed Hanseatic. It was assigned to the Hamburg–New York route. On 8 September 1966, the ship caught fire in New York, and on 28 September, it was towed to Hamburg, where it was deemed economically unviable. It was scrapped shortly thereafter.
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Built in 1895 at the A. G. Vulkan Werke shipyards in Stettin, Germany, under the name Crefeld, it was acquired by the Spanish government on 25 October 1918, and assigned to the Trasmediterránea Shipping Company by Royal Order of 16 February 1924. It served as a transatlantic mail ship, beginning its voyages in Barcelona and stopping at the ports of Málaga and Cádiz, among others, before completing its journey in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. On 20 October 1924, it was renamed Teide and underwent extensive refitting at the Nuevo Vulcano shipyard in Barcelona. Initially intended for traffic to the Canary Islands, in February 1931 it was incorporated into the Guinea route, which until then had been served by the Compañía Trasatlántica and which, from that date onward, was operated by the Compañía Trasmediterránea. On 15 May 1932, it set sail from Barcelona on what would be its final voyage. On 20 May, it left Cádiz by the stern, with 35 passengers and 110 crew members, bound for Santa Isabel on Fernando Poo. In Monrovia, 65 laborers boarded to work on board, and they were scheduled to disembark at the same port on the return journey. In San Carlos, 400 native passengers boarded for Bata, and it was during this crossing, at 3:00 a.m. on 8 June, that the Teide ran aground at Punta Oscura, southwest of Fernando Poo Island, in a place called Etepo by the natives, next to the Baña River and very close to Punta Sagre. Fortunately, there were no personal injuries, and both the passengers and crew were picked up by the British-flagged mixed vessel Appam and taken to Santa Isabel." (Excerpt adapted from a text by Francisco Font Betanzos, published in the Revista General de Marina in October 2007.)
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SS König Albert was a German ocean liner owned by the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line of Bremen. The ship was built by Stettiner Vulcan of Stettin, and launched in 1899. She sailed on her maiden voyage from Hamburg, via the Suez Canal to the Far East. She completed eight round voyages on this service and was then transferred on 3 March 1903 to the Bremen - Cherbourg - New York City route for a single voyage. On 16 April 1903 she went to the Genoa - Naples - New York City run and stayed mainly on this service until commencing her last voyage on 11 June 1914. Interned in Italy at the outbreak of World War I, she was seized by the Italian Government in 1915, renamed the Ferdinando Palasciano and converted to a hospital ship. On 20 January 1916 off the Albanian coast she was captured as a prize by the Austro-Hungarian Navy U-boat U-11, and escorted into their naval base of Cattaro. She was later handed back to the Italians. In 1920, the ship was chartered to Navigazione Generale Italiana of Genoa and on 15 June 1920 commenced her first voyage Genoa - Naples - New York. She completed six round trip voyages on this route, the last one commencing 13 April 1921. She was used also as a transport for the Royal Italian Navy, before being scrapped in 1926.
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Postal stamp issued by the Deutsche Post in 2010.
The Aller, belonging to North German Lloyd, was built in 1886 by Fairfield in Glasgow. The ship had four masts, two funnels, and a speed of 17 knots. It could accommodate 150 first-class passengers, 90 second-class passengers, and 1,000 third-class passengers. It was the NDL's first fast steamer built entirely of steel and featured a triple-expansion engine. The ship was launched on 18 February 1886, and on 24 April, it departed Bremen for its maiden voyage to New York. In 1897, it sailed between Bremen, Southampton, and New York. On 15 June, it collided with the British fishing cutter Willie near Amerland. The cutter sank, and six men lost their lives. Later that year, the third and fourth masts were removed, and the funnels were lengthened. On 21 October 1897, it sailed from Genoa to New York for the first time, and continued this route until 1902. On 27 January 1898, the crew of the Aller rescued the 23-member crew of the sinking British steamship Dago. Its final voyage began on 6 November 1902, in Genoa. It was subsequently decommissioned and scrapped in 1904.
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The J.J. Sister was built by Navigazione Genérale Italiana at the Odero shipyard in Sestri Ponente, Genoa, in 1896. Flying the Italian flag, her name was Galileo Galilei, she served with the islands of Sardinia and Sicily. She was part of the Compañía Valenciana de Vapores Correos de África (Valencian Company of African Mail Steamers) and, from 1916, the Compañía Trasmediterránea (Transmediterranean Company). She served on various routes and was a prison ship during the Spanish Civil War. She was scrapped in 1964.
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Ticket vaporetto Nº B 388376
Corsa semplice P. Roma - Rialto o Rialto P. Roma
13.4.?
L. 45
(1950s)
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The Kon-Tiki Museum is a museum in the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo. It houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expedition, as well as a library with about 8,000 books. It was opened in a provisional building in 1949. In 1957, the current building, designed by architects F. S. Platou and Otto Torgersen, was opened. In 1978, an extension of the museum designed by Torgersen was opened. The museum was originally built to house the Kon-Tiki, a raft of balsa wood of pre-Columbian model that Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl used to sail from Peru to Polynesia in 1947. Another boat in the museum is the Ra II, a vessel built of reeds according to Heyerdahl's perception of an ancient Egyptian seagoing boat. Heyerdahl sailed the Ra II from North Africa to the Caribbean after a previous attempt with the reed boat Ra failed.
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Postcard of "The beautiful Sunliners".
SS Constitution was an ocean liner (683 feet long, 30,293 tons) owned by American Export Lines, sister ship of SS Independence. Both were constructed in the United States and made their maiden voyages in 1951. Commissioned in 1951, she started her long career sailing on the New York City-Genoa-Naples-Gibraltar route to Europe. Following service on American Export's "Sunlane" cruise to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, the two ships sailed for American Hawaii Cruises and American Global Line for many years in the 1980s and 1990s. Constitution was retired in 1995; while under tow to be scrapped, the liner sank 700 nautical miles (1,300 km) north of the Hawaiian Islands on 17 November 1997.
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