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SS Princess Patricia at the CP Rail dock just west of Canada Place in September 1984. This is now the current site of Vancouver's Convention Centre West. Princess Patricia , was launched on 5 October 1948 and completed in May 1949 for the Canadian Pacific Railway , was the first ship to operate for Princess Cruises , one of the largest cruise ...
The Royal-class cruise ship is a class of cruise ships constructed by Fincantieri of Italy and operated by Princess Cruises and P&O Cruises, both subsidiaries of Carnival Corporation & plc. There are seven Royal-class ships, with six operated by Princess and one by P&O. The lead vessel of the class, Royal Princess, debuted in June 2013 for ...
The first P&O Princess Cruises purpose-built cruise ship was Royal Princess, christened by Princess Diana in 1984, she was the largest new British passenger ship in a decade, and one of the first, if not the first, ships to completely dispense with interior cabins. [6]
The ships of the British Columbia Coast Steamships came to be called "pocket liners" because they offered amenities like a great ocean liner, but on a smaller scale. [2] The CPR princesses were a coastal counterpart to CPR's "Empress" fleet of passenger liners which sailed on trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic routes.
It acted as both a cargo ship, carrying close to 10 million pounds of tea between 1870 and 1877, and a training ship, and was known as one of the fastest ships of its time.
Statendam-class cruise ship 1996 1996 Marghera 57,092 GT Holland America Line: 5955 9103996 Dawn Princess: Sun-class cruise ship 11 July 1996 1997 Monfalcone 77.441 GT Princess Cruises: 5956 9104005 Grand Princess: Grand-class cruise ship 1998 1998 Monfalcone 108.806 DWT Princess Cruises: 5957 Etna (A 5326) Auxiliary ship 1997 1998
The vessels in the class were designed and constructed by Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani in Italy. The first Sun-class vessel, Sun Princess (now Pacific World), entered service in 1995 and the last, Ocean Princess (now Queen of the Oceans) entered service in 2000. At the time of launch, the Sun class was amongst the largest cruise ships ...
Discovery Princess is a Royal-class cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. The 145,000 GT -vessel was ordered in January 2017 with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri and her steel-cutting was performed on 14 February 2019 in Castellammare di Stabia , Italy .