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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 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.
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 Riva Trigoso (La Spezia: 13.400 t Italian Navy: 5958 9129873 MSC Alexa: Container ship 1996 Ancona
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 ...
The Iowa-class battleship served in World War II and the Korean War before primarily acting as a training ship; in 1991, the Wisconsin rejoined forces in Operation Desert Storm — the last time ...
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 .
The ships have a capacity of about 4,300 passengers [5] and will be primarily powered by LNG. [6] The vessels measure 345.3 metres (1,132 ft 10 in) long [7] [8] with a beam of 47 m (154 ft 2 in). The ships have 2,157 cabins and are served by a crew of 1,500. [9] Steel was cut for the first ship by Fincantieri in September 2021.