History Of Cruise Ships

It had 120 cabins that carried 192 first class passengers and 161 crew members.

History of cruise ships. 1984-1998 Fedra Minoan Lines. A Brief History of the Cruise Line Industry. 320 rows The cruise ship itineraries and port schedules are regularly updated.

A history of cruise ship godmothers Today is the birthday of the most talked-about of last years cruise ship godmothers Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. 1965 In April the Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic FAL is adopted doesnt go into force until 1967. The Prinzessin Victoria Luise was a German passenger ship having the distinction of being the worlds first cruise ship.

The first cruise vessel to cross the Atlantic from. Originally the ship was chartered from Royal Caribbean for a six-year period. The Prinzessin Victoria Luise measured 406 feet 124 meters long by 52 feet 16 meters wide and was 4409 gross tons source.

This journey is better known as the Iberian Peninsula. 1979-2002 Daedalus Minoan Lines. The Italian captain went back onboard the wreck for the first time since the sinking of the cruise ship on January 13 2012 as part of his trial for manslaughter and abandoning ship.

First transatlantic sailing 13-day Nassau-Genoa Princess Italia 1969. Vision of the Seas 1997 Vision Class - 78340 grt. Although engine efficiency improved passenger staterooms public lounges and deck space on a cruise ship built in the 1950s were not much different than those on the SSTitanic.

The most popular destination was between London to New York and many used ships as an alternative to air travel for getting from point A to B. The very fact that boats may be quite easily identified in illustrations of great antiquity shows how slow and continuous had been this evolution until just 150 years ago. She was launched in 1900.