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[14] [67] Pomeroy had moved to Skagway in 2001 to be a performer in the show. [12] [68] The next season, zero cruise ships docked in Skagway in 2020 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Alaska. The following year, the estimated number of summer cruise ship visitors was below 10% of previous seasons, so the two owners sought to minimize costs as ...
Skagway is a popular stop for cruise ships, and the tourist trade is a big part of the business of Skagway. Skagway is also the setting for part of Jack London's book The Call of the Wild, Will Hobbs's book Jason's Gold, and Joe Haldeman's novel, Guardian. The John Wayne film North to Alaska (1960) was filmed nearby.
Ships using the route can avoid some of the bad weather in the open ocean and may visit some of the many isolated communities along the route. The Inside Passage is heavily travelled by cruise ships, freighters, tugs with tows, fishing craft, pleasure craft, and ships of the Alaska Marine Highway, BC Ferries, and Washington State Ferries ...
As the ship glides through the still waters of the fjord, you can sometimes hear the thunderous cracking of the glacier as it calves, sending massive chunks of ice into the sea. Riding into the ...
Santa-class container ship: For Hamburg Süd [2] 26 February Spain: Astilleros Gondán: Río Segura: Patrol boat: For Guardia Civil: 26 February Republic of Korea: Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering: Geoje: MSC Taranto 'MSC Danit-type container ship [3] 27 February Germany: Meyer Werft: Papenburg: AIDAsol: Sphinx-class cruise ship For ...
Aug. 10—Skagway, White Pass railroad, cruise ship Several landslides have closed the cruise ship dock in Skagway for the rest of the summer, causing what's expected to be at least three dozen ...
Tourism to Alaska began to increase, with many cruise ships stopping at Skagway. The scenery of the White Pass route sounded like a great tourist draw; and the rails of the White Pass & Yukon Route were laid right down to the docks, even along them, for the former freight and cruise ship traffic.
MS Windward was a cruise ship that was built in 1993 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France for Kloster Cruise (Norwegian Cruise Line) as Windward. In 1998 she was lengthened at Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany and renamed Norwegian Wind. In 2007 she was transferred to the fleet of Star Cruises as SuperStar Aquarius.