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A preliminary brochure from 1979 has a huge artist's rendering of her in white, also, but the image unfolds to nearly 4 feet in length and cannot be scanned!
Rich
You almost gave me a heart attack! It's not that the "Norway" would have looked too bad in the white livery, but she's so much more beautiful with a blue hull. I'm glad they kept the paint scheme from her "France" days, which accenturated the sheer lines and even superimposed them. It added to the ship's grace.
quote:Originally posted by Patsy:LOL! Course they are. My brain's clogged up with this cold. Though with the graffiti hulls it is easy to get confused these days. So before Star Cruises came along, did they just buy ships or have their own newbuilds complete with their style of funnel?
NCL did build some of their own: DREAMWARD & WINDWARD came out in '92 & '93, and were later stretched. NCL also built NORWEGIAN SKY (originally planned to be a sister to COSTA VICTORIA, which would have been called COSTA OLYMPIA.) They built NORWEGIAN SUN; I forget when Star came into the picture, around that time I guess, and implemented their tremendous new-build program.
quote:Originally posted by Ernst:Hey, NCL is a bit older! You forgot Starward, Skyward and Southward!
I had already mentioned them in the prior post.
quote:Originally posted by lasuvidaboy:NCL had hull art in the early 1970s as well. The sunburst and stripe on their ship's hulls were one of their trademarks for many years.
STARWARD at Miami, March 1981 -- washing the sunburst.
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