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A fan favorite of Britain’s P&O Cruises has a new home. Last voyage from Southampton for the ship formerly known as Oriana. MV Piano Land off for a refit I guess. @ABPSouthampton pic.twitter.com/fc6pghsxxX — Iain Gudgeon (@FatFishEvents) August 16, 2019…
UPDATE [Feb 6, 2019]:The ship will be renamed Piano Land. She will be sailing for a new cruise line called Well Star Travel Cruise. As stated below it’s a joint venture between China Travel Services (providing sales) and COSCO (providing…
UPDATE: The Pacific Eden (ex-Statendam) will leave the fleet and head to Cruise & Maritime Voyages. She’ll be deployed to their German sub-brand, TransOcean Kreuzfahrten. The transfer will occur April 2019. Below originally published on: Oct 11, 2018 @ 17:45 Carnival Corp.…
P&O just named their new 183,200gt newbuild Iona. Iona is apparently an island in Scotland and also the name of a girl. This will be the third in the highly anticipated Excellence-class. These are the dual fueled (traditional bunkers or…
P&O Cruises smallest vessel, the Adonia (ex-R Eight, Minerva II, Royal Princess), has officially been transferred to Azamara Crusies. She will be transformed to the Azamara Pursuit in a drydock in the Bahamas. Whats neat about this is two things. One is…
Carnival Corp. has just announced that they agreed with Meyer Werft to build an additional vessel for their P&O brand. They already have a newbuild planned for 2020 so this will be a sister to her and debut in 2022.…
Carnival Corp. just announced a change to Carnival Cruise Lines and P&O Australia’s newbuild plans. Almost exactly a year ago, Carnival Corp announced that P&O Australia would be receiving their very first newbuild, a 135,500 gt, 4,200pax ship. At the…
Fincantieri has announced that they have finalized and agreement with Carnival Corp. for the construction of 4 more ships. With this announcement, we now know 8 of the 9 ships they ordered back in March. This order breaks down as…
P&O Australia announced that their parent line, Princess Cruises, will transfer the Dawn Princess to the Australian brand. The 77,500gt ship will be renamed Pacific Explorer. After an extensive drydock, she will set sail for her new home in 2017.…
You may have seen my tweet earlier today: Flying out of Boston yesterday, saw @RoyalCaribbean #BrillianceOfTheSeas departing. pic.twitter.com/tMSKEJyp35 — CruiseInd (@cruiseind) September 28, 2015 Here are some additionals I edited up if you were interested.
Today, P&O will officially be handed over their newest flag ship the Britannia. I have just started up our Inaugural blog, accessible here or from the menu above. Make sure to check back. From what I’ve seen so far, her…
This is an archived post that originally appeared on CruiseInd on Feb 22, 2015 @ 09:21 Britannia has officially sailed from her homeport in Southampton. Thank you for following. I updated the side bar with her webcam which appears to…
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P&O’s latest ship has just commenced her sea trials. Very proud to have worked on this amazing chandelier by @JonaHoadDesign on board @pandocruises incredible Britannia. pic.twitter.com/ciVWhKu0Kt — Litestructures (@Litestructures) December 9, 2014
The U.K.’s P&O Cruises have unveiled the Union Jack livery that will adorn their newest flagship. When the Britannia’s construction is complete, she will be formally christened in Southampton in March 2015.
via P&O Cruises Australia: After sifting through more than 30,000 suggestions from across Australia and New Zealand, P&O Cruises today drew a line in the sand to reveal the names of its latest ships – Pacific Aria and Pacific Eden.…
UBS Investment Research is claiming that Carnival Corp. intends to place an order for 2 ships this summer. That would place them on track for delivery in 2017. It is not expected that this will be delivered to Carnival Cruise…
P&O Cruises have released some renderings of their upcoming flagship. The interiors have a very bright sense to them. That’s a trend were seeing lately. In the early 2000’s it was about bight, but bold colors. We’re still seeing some of that…
Last week we broke the story that P&O are drastically going to change the livery of their newbuild the Britannia. One of the two big changes are a departure from the canary yellow funnels to blue with the P&O Cruises…
The keel for P&O’s newest ship has just been laid down in a drydock in Monfalcone, Italy. Fincanteri will now start assembling what is essentially a sister to the Royal Princess, just tamed down a bit. She is on schedule…
Stories have been surfacing the past few days from onboard P&O’s Ventura, that the ship was damaged in a storm off the French Coast in the Bay of Biscay. The worst is the above crack. Said to be wider than 2-in.,…
via CIN: Sometimes supplier announcements can have unintended consequences, like Wärtsilä Hamworthy confirming an equipment order for the P&O Cruises 141,000-ton newbuild at Fincantieri, due for delivery in 2015, along with an option for a second ship. The cruise line…
A recent maritime certification compliance with SOLAS is an increase in stability requirements. As vessels superstructures get taller they need a stable base (hull). A popular enhancement done in drydocking a modern cruise ship is the addition of balconies. This…
Almost echoing the recent incident with the Costa Deliziosa in Norway, P&O’s Oriana docked in Southampton and revealed her little scrape. The dent occurred as the ship hit the quarryside in Kristiansand, Norway. She still is seaworthy and any impact…
UPDATE: She will be built at Fincanteri in Italy. Her hull will be based on the new Princess newbuild. People have commented that she looks like the Solstice class, but there is nothing similar other than the twin funnels. She’ll…