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In 2008, when the Precious family matriarch Silvia Precious retired, the boat was being optioned by an out of town buyer to move to a Northern Michigan port. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] To keep the boat in Muskegon, the Sand Products Corporation purchased the Port City Princess and extensively upgraded her, this included a number of aesthetic and structural ...
Princess Cruises is an American cruise line owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. [3] [4] The company is incorporated in Bermuda and its headquarters are in Santa Clarita, California. [3] As of 2021, it is the second largest cruise line by net revenue. [1] It was previously a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises. The line has 15 ships cruising ...
In 2000 Regal Princess received a major refurbishment. [9] From the same year until 2003, she spent the southern hemisphere summer months cruising out of Sydney, taking over Princess Cruises' Australian itineraries following the transfer of another former Sitmar ship, the Sky Princess, to P&O Cruises Australia as Pacific Sky. [10] Regal Princess
The PS Lady Elgin was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank in Lake Michigan off the fledgling town of Port Clinton, Illinois, whose geography is now divided between Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois, after she was rammed in a gale by the schooner Augusta in the early hours of September 8, 1860.
On 20 August 2018, the fifth Royal-class vessel was announced as Enchanted Princess. [25] Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, she had been scheduled to debut on 15 June 2020. [25] On 4 October 2019, Princess revealed that the sixth and final Royal-class vessel would be named Discovery Princess, which was scheduled to begin operating in November ...
Chicago to Harbor Springs, Michigan, was a popular trip for many passengers. Manitou would make the trip in 24 hours. In 1898, the fare was $5.00, with meals and berth extra. Two other popular ships were Petoskey and Charlevoix; their time to Harbor Springs was 40 hours. The cost to take these boats in 1898 was $7.00, with meals and berth included.
She was also called the "Queen of the Great Lakes" and carried around 900 passengers and 120 automobiles in the summer. The amount of oil used varied per round trip, but was approximately 5,500 US gallons (21,000 L; 4,600 imp gal). On week days she made two round trips that took 7 hours each way, using three of the four boilers.
Sun Princess is a Sphere-class cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc, and is the third ship to sail for the cruise line under this name. Sun Princess was ordered on 23 July 2018 from Fincantieri and were constructed at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone , Italy, and debuted in 2024.