History
LOI | |
1951 | Building contract |
Building started | |
Keel laid | |
22/11/1956 | Launch |
Sea trial | |
Second sea trial | |
5/1957 | Delivered to Cunard Steamship Co, Liverpool, England. |
5/6/1957 | Greenock – Montreal voyage |
26/6/1957 | Liverpool – Montreal service , winter seasons Liverpool – New york service. |
1965 | Refurbished |
10/2/1965 | Cruises. |
12/1967 | Laid up at Southampton |
2/2/1968 | Sold to Sitmar Line, Monrovia, Liberia. New name Fairwind. Continue laid up. |
1/1970-1/71 | Rebuild in Trieste, Italy. |
1971 | Winter season cruises from Fort Laudertale to South America and Caribbean and summer season cruises from San Francisco to Alaska and Canada. |
1988 | Repaired and refurbished at San Francisco after hitting sandbank in Amazon. New name Sitmar Fairwind. |
1/9/1988 | Sitmar cruises sold to P&O Cruises. |
8/9/1988 | Moved to Princess Cruisess fleet. New name Dawn Princess. |
1993 | Sold to Happy Days Shipping, Nassau, Bahamas. (V-Ships , who was owner of Sitmar Cruise) . New name Albatros. |
1993 | Five years charter to Phoenix Reisen. |
18/8/1993 | First voyage from Germany to North Cape . |
22/5/1995 | Suffered an engine room fire while on a cruise on the Red Sea. |
30/6/1995 | First repaired in Livorno and continued at Lloyd Werft, Germany. 30th June back in service. |
16/5/1997 | Hit a Bartholomew’s Ledge, St Mary’s Sound, Isles of Scilly. Have 61 m.. gash in the hull. Repaired A & P Shipyard, Southampton. |
7/1997 | Back in service |
11/2003 | Suffered severe machinery problems. Phoenix Reisen decided to terminate her charter contract. |
12/2003 | Repairing price was too high so ship sold to scrap. New name Genova. Towed to Alang, India. |
1/1/2004 | Beached at Alang, India. Scrapped. |