{"id":37669,"date":"2024-06-01T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T06:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=37669"},"modified":"2024-06-24T20:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:57:56","slug":"topaz-history-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=37669","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Keel laid <\/td><\/tr>
22\/6\/1955<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
9-10\/3\/1956<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
9\/4\/1956<\/td>Delivered to Canadian Pacific Steamship, Liverpool, England.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/4\/1956<\/td>Maiden voyage from Liverpool to Southampton.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/4\/1956<\/td>Southampton – Montreal service.<\/td><\/tr>
1960<\/td>Southampton – Montreal summer service. Cruises from New York on winter.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1963<\/td>Laid up for sale.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1964<\/td>Sold to Greek Line, Andros, Greece.<\/td><\/tr>
16\/11\/1964<\/td>Delivered to new owner.New name Queen Anna Maria. <\/td><\/tr>
11\/1964<\/td>Rebuild by Mariotti, Genova, Italy. New lounge and large Lido deck build.<\/td><\/tr>
24\/3\/1965<\/td>Piraeus – Palermo – Napoli – Lisboa – Halifax – New York route and low season cruises.<\/td><\/tr>
?<\/td>Haifa – Limassol – Piraeus – Palermo – Napoli – Lisboa – Halifax – New York route and cruises on low season.<\/td><\/tr>
22\/1\/1975<\/td>Laid up for sale at Piraeus.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1975<\/td>Sold to Carnival Cruise Lines, Panama. New name Carnivale.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1975<\/td>Rebuild by Newport News.<\/td><\/tr>
7\/2\/1976<\/td>Cruises from Miami to Caribbean.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/1990<\/td>Bahamas flag.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/10\/1993<\/td>New owner Fiesta Marina Cruises (Carnival), Nassau , Bahamas. New name Fiesta Marina.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1993<\/td>Cruises from San Juan, Puerto Rico and Caracas, Venezuela.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/1994<\/td>Sold to Epirotiki, Greece.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1994<\/td>The operation was stopped as unprofitable.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1994<\/td>Delivered to new owner. New name Olympic.<\/td><\/tr>
1996<\/td>Transferrred to Royal Olympic Cruises.<\/td><\/tr>
1997<\/td>Sold to Thomson Cruises, Limassol, Cyprus. New name The Topaz.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Cruises on Mediterranean and Canary Islands andCaribbean.<\/td><\/tr>
1998<\/td>Owner Topaz International Shipping, Panama.<\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/td>Charter to Peaceboat organisation. Voyages around the World.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2008<\/td>Laid up for sale.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/2008<\/td>Sold to scrap. New owner Errol Ltd. St. Basseterre, Kitts and Nevis. New name Topaz.<\/td><\/tr>
5\/7\/2008<\/td>Beached on Alang, India. Scrapped.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to\u00a0Ship                                     History LOI Building contract Building started Keel laid 22\/6\/1955 Launch 9-10\/3\/1956 Sea trial Second sea trial 9\/4\/1956 Delivered to Canadian Pacific Steamship, Liverpool, England. 9\/4\/1956 Maiden voyage from Liverpool to Southampton. 20\/4\/1956 Southampton – Montreal … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":37651,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37669","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37673,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37669\/revisions\/37673"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}