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The cruise ship better known as the Norwegian Majesty, but now sailing as Crown Iris, has had a very interesting history. Let’s take a look. In 1990, Finland-based Birka Lines ordered a new cruise ferry for their overnight trips out…
UPDATE (Monday): Going into the weekend we didn’t know who the buyer was. Well now that the new week has started, the buyer as finally emerged as: Israel’s Mano Maritime. The vessel will be renamed to Princess Iris and sail…
UK Based Thomson Cruises, has announced that they will be adding balconies to three of their ships. The Thomson Celebration, Thomson Spirit and Thomson Majesty should all have balconies added buy this time next year. The Thomson Celebration (ex-Noordam) will have 26…
5 crew members were killed when a routine lifeboat drill went horribly wrong. The ship was docked at the port of Santa Cruz on La Palma in the Canary Islands. It should be noted, the davit arm involved that faulted…