History
LOI | |
24/9/1963 | Building contract |
Building started | |
19/6/1963 | Keel laid |
13/6/1964 | Launch |
7/5/1965 | Sea trial |
4/9/1965 | Second sea trial |
18/9/1965 | Delivered to A/S Den Norske Amerikalinje, Oslo, Norway. Christened. |
24/9/1965 | Arrived to Oslo, promotion cruise |
2/10/1965 | Oslo – New York – Oslo route |
10/1965 | Cruises around the world |
11/1976 | Laid up |
3/1977 | Back in service |
19/10/1980 | Rebuild by Blohm & Voss, HAmburg. New main engines, aircondition and 15new cabins installed. |
12/1980 | Back in cruise service. |
11/5/1983 | Sold to Cunard Line. |
10/1983 | Delivered to Cunard Line. Bahamas flag. |
10/1983 | Rebuild n San Francisco |
23/2/1996 | Suffered engineroom fire at South China Sea. |
4-6/1996 | Repaired at Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore |
5/1996 | Charter to Transocean Tours, Bremen |
16/7/1996 | Transocean Tours service, new name Gripsholm. |
4/8/1996 | Run aground at sandbank near Helsingborg.Repaired at Lloyd Werft. |
18/8/1996 | Back in service. |
1997 | Sold to Saga Shipping Co. New name Saga Rose. |
4/1997 | Refurbished by A&P Falmouth |
14/5/1997 | First voyage to Saga Cruises |
12/1997 | Refurbished by A&P Falmouth |
1/1998 | World cruise |
39/7/1999 | Collision with fishing vessel at Western Norway |
6/12/2009 | End of last cruise of Saga Cruises. |
11/12/2009 | Arrived to Gibraltar for anchorage |
9/4/2010 | Voyage to China |
29/5/2010 | Scrapped at Jiangyin, China |