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Topic: Photo Trivia - Name these Ships

joe at travelpage
Administrator
Member # 622

posted 07-13-1999 09:47 PM

Ok, here's a visual cruise trivia question. Name the two ships in the photo below. The one to the right should be easy.

Joe at TravelPage.com

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jake14
First Class Passenger
Member # 602

posted 07-13-1999 09:53 PM

Well...
the one at the right is the Grand Princess (109,000 tons). But the one at the left it tricky. Maybe a Norweigen ship?

Posts: 136 | From: susanville ca us | Registered: May 99

Vaccaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 465

posted 07-14-1999 02:37 AM

Hello everybody,
The small ship seems to be the TRITON of Royal Olympic Cruise launched in 1971.
She was the CUNARD ADVENTURER and then, the SUNWARD II. She became TRITON in 1992.
14.110 grt; 486 ft X70.5 ft; 912 passengers.
What an evolution between the two ships on the picture in twenty five years!
Bye!

Posts: 1193 | From: France ...where the greatest liners ever are born, ...by far! | Registered: Feb 99

Scottylass
First Class Passenger
Member # 420

posted 07-14-1999 10:52 AM

Well the big one is definitely the Grand Princess, but the smaller one is certainly tricky, but could it be the "Seawing".
Great shot by the way - would love to have taken that myself.

Posts: 648 | From: Stirlingshire, Scotland | Registered: Jul 99

Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 07-14-1999 11:42 AM

What a GREAT picture! Who took that? The little Triton, looks like a lifeboat from the Grand Princes was lowered!

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Joe at PwC
First Class Passenger
Member # 225

posted 07-14-1999 12:26 PM

Great example of just how staggering the dimensions of the Grand Princess are. Seeing it for real for the first time was an incredible experience.

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MagnmPI
First Class Passenger
Member # 299

posted 08-06-1999 08:07 PM

The Grand Princess is easy...but I think the one on the left is the Bolero which used to belong to N.C.L. but I can't remember N.C.L.'s name for her. The Starward maybe?

Posts: 545 | From: San Francisco Bay Area | Registered: Aug 99

Jamman
First Class Passenger
Member # 197

posted 08-06-1999 09:40 PM

I'm with Magnum. I think the one on the left is the former NCL ship Starward.

Posts: 17 | From: Somerset, NJ, USA | Registered: Jul 99

jal33406
First Class Passenger
Member # 603

posted 08-11-1999 08:11 PM

Could also be SEAWING, ex-Southward.

Posts: 35 | From: West Palm Beach FL USA | Registered: Aug 99

Patrick
First Class Passenger
Member # 364

posted 08-12-1999 01:18 PM

very easy...
Royal Olympic Cruises´MTS TRITON and Princess Cruises´MS GRAND PRINCESS.

Interesting about the TRITON might be, that she once sailed for Norwegian Cruise Lines as the SUNWARD II and from that time she has kept her twin-funnel. The TRITION, originally build as the CUNARD ADVENTURER (looks like a smaller version of the RHAPSODY (ex CUNARD PRINCESS) and OLYMPIC COUNTESS (ex CUNARD COUNTESS)) became this twin-funnel when NCL purchased the ship. All the former NCL ships had these funnels: the SEAWING (ex SOUTHWARD), but not her sistership FLAMENCO (ex SPIRIT OF LONDON) because she was never taken over by NCL, the BOLERO (ex STARWARD)and her sistership LEISURE WORLD (ex SKYWARD).

Posts: 1680 | From: OSC Luxembourg | Registered: Nov 98

Vaccaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 465

posted 08-12-1999 04:45 PM

Hello everybody,
Several answers were given since a month, several ones were right and some others were wrong (like in any trivia and the searches to do are as nice as the right answer itself).
Maybe Joe at Travelpage could give the "official" answer of this now "old" question and ask another one to let us to search again about this new one?
Thank you Joe. Bye.

Posts: 1193 | From: France ...where the greatest liners ever are born, ...by far! | Registered: Feb 99

joe at travelpage
Administrator
Member # 622

posted 08-12-1999 05:47 PM

Answer time...

A number of you were correct. The ship to the right is the Grand Princess in all her glory. The ship to the left is Royal Olympic's Triton. The picture was taken last summer by TravelPage.com's cruise editor Mark Goldberg during a stop in the Greek Isles.

A new visual cruise trivia question will be posted soon.

Joe at TravelPage.com

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vulcania
First Class Passenger
Member # 822

posted 09-08-1999 10:27 AM

Thanks for crediting me for taking the picture, but the photographer was actually Chris Smith, Travel Page Associate Cruise Editor...I was just along for the walk!

Posts: 182 | From: Baltimore, MD USA | Registered: Sep 99

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