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LOI
22/8/1963 Building contract
Building started
1/1964 Keel laid
14/4/1965 Launch and christened by Mrs. Annabella Broström
Sea trial
Second sea trial
17/3/1966 Delivered to AB Svenska Amerika Linjen, Göteborg, Sweden.
24/4/1966 Maiden voyage from Göteborg to New York.
1966Göteborg – New York route and cruises.
8/1975 Sold to Flagship Cruises, Bermuda
10/9/1975 Last arrival to New York
19/9/1975 Delivered to new owner. Liberian flag.
19/12/1975 Operated by Flagship Cruises . Cruises from USA.
1/1978 Grounded near Martinique.
6/1978 Sold to P&O Cruises.
9/1978 Delivered to new owner. UK flag.
9/1978-1/1979 Rebuild on Bremer Vulkan, Germany
15/1/1979 New name Sea Princess
16/2/1979 Cruises mostly on Australian market. Operated P&O Cruises and Princess Cruises.
1982Rebuild on Vosper, England.
1986New aux. engines
4/1995 New name Victoria, operated P&O cruises, mostly on UK market.
1997Refurbished
12/99-2/2000 Charter to Union Castle Steamship Co. for the world cruise.
11/2002 Sold to Leonardo Shipping, Greece. New name Mona Lisa. Bahamas flag.
11/2002 Charter to Holiday Kreuzfahrten, Germany
25/7/2003 Grounded near Magdelen Fjord, Norway. Repairing needed drydocking.
9/2006 Holiday Kreuzfahrten went a bankrupt.
10/2006 Laid up at Piraeus.
11/2006 Chartered as hotelship for Asian Games to Doha, Qatar
1/2007 Arrived back to Piraeus
2007Charter to Pullmantur Cruises.
4/2007 New name Oceanic II
4/2007 Charter to Louis Cruise Lines
28/5/2007 Laid up
9/2007 Charter to The Scholar Ship.
23/4/2008 New name Mona Lisa
28/4/2008 Charter to Lord Nelson Seereisen. Cruises on Europe
4/5/2008 Grounded near Riga, drydocking at Ventspils few days later.
8/5/2008 Back to normal cruise service.
31/8/2008 End of charter
winter 2008/09 Charter to Peace Boat.
summer 2009 Charter to Lord Nelson Seereisen. Cruises on Europe
26/1-23/3/2010 Charter to Canada as a hotelship during to Winter Olympic games.
5-8/2010 Charter to Lord Nelson Seereisen. Cruises on Europe
9/2010 Voyage from Germany to Greece. Laid up at Drapetsona.
15/10/2010 Voyage to Oman.
26/10/2010 Sold to DSME Oman LLC, Nassau, Bahamas. Rebuild to hotelship. New name Veronica
2011 Used as hotelship in Oman
10/2013 Hotel closed. Laid up for sale.
2015Sold for scrap
19/11/2015 Beached in Alang, India. Scrapped.