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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 09-28-2011 04:06 PM

Nautical supermodels

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Linerrich
First Class Passenger
Member # 4864

posted 09-28-2011 04:32 PM

Photo was taken in March, 1970, at Gatun Lake, Panama. LEONARDO DA VINCI was enroute to Hawaii on a 41-night cruise, while GUGLIELMO MARCONI was returning to Italy from Australia in her round-the-world service.

Rich

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Linerrich
First Class Passenger
Member # 4864

posted 09-28-2011 04:37 PM

Here is an opposing view in this series of photos:

Rich

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eroller
First Class Passenger
Member # 1649

posted 09-28-2011 05:59 PM

As far as I'm concerned two of the most beautiful, streamlined, balanced, and asthecially pleasing profiles ever created. I would sail on either in a heartbeat over anything out there today. Wish passenger ships still looked like this.

Ernie

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rd77
First Class Passenger
Member # 2117

posted 09-29-2011 04:44 AM

Fully agree Ernie. The DA VINCI is my all-time favourite liner and the MARCONI is Top Ten material as well...

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 09-30-2011 12:51 AM

I first thought that these were models. What an incredible image of two gorgeous ships. Comparing these beauties to today's boxboats, all I can ask is 'what happened to great design'??

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Cunardcoll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1226

posted 09-30-2011 07:23 PM

Greed won from looks, todays ships are built to bring in the cash, they don't care for titles as the fastest ship, the most beautyful ship, the owners don't even care for a flagship anymore and neither do countries care for a ship to be an ambassador for its home country.
I do however think that QM2 is somewhat an exception, altough she was built in France she still is somewhat of a british ambassador and she's fast and I really like her looks, she 's way better than the rest of the mega-hotels that happen to float and move around a bit.

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Vaccaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 465

posted 10-03-2011 01:43 AM

Two of the most elegant and beautiful liners ever built! Really the time period I prefer as far as liners design is concerned. Thanks both for sharing.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 10-03-2011 09:50 AM

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Originally posted by Vaccaro:
Two of the most elegant and beautiful liners ever built! Really the time period I prefer as far as liners design is concerned. Thanks both for sharing.

I believe the Leonardo was an Atlantic liner, and the Marconi an Indian Ocean liner. The latter designed for warmer weather with open promenades.

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SSTRAVELER
First Class Passenger
Member # 15170

posted 10-03-2011 12:09 PM

The Italians sure knew how to design a beautiful ship. Any doubts just look at this picture and find me anything that is not Italian equals these beauties.

The da Vinci was very much an Atlantic liner but she had lots of open deck space on the stern because of the Mediterranean routing and I am sure Italia considered the cruising aspects even in 1959. She did lots of long cruises and later to the Caribbean.

Marconi and Galileo were around the world ships going out to Australia with lots of emigrants. Yes they had the open promenades but I think da Vinci had just as much outdoor space on her stern if not more. da Vinci had more pools because of her class system. da Vinci of course did not survive to become a real cruise ship for various reasons but Marconi and Galileo of course did and were likely far more successful for Costa and Chandris in their later lives.

Bellissimo .... send me on either and I will be in heaven even in the worst inside cabin they had to offer.

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Conte Di Savoia
First Class Passenger
Member # 1802

posted 10-03-2011 12:31 PM

Leonardo Da Vinci affectionately referred to as "The Leonardo" , was my first ship. I made three memorable transatlantics aboard her in the early 60's and each was a fantastic experience. What great food and service in her art filled public rooms. Great memories! Here is a picture of her departing New York with her original black hull. I always thought she looked even more elegant in black. This picture is from a 1962 brochure for her gala Mediterranean and Black Sea Cruise.

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Brian_O
First Class Passenger
Member # 3910

posted 10-03-2011 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by SSTRAVELER:
Marconi and Galileo were around the world ships going out to Australia with lots of emigrants.

This pair was not built with around the world service in mind; that came later.

Before the closure of the Suez Canal during the 6-day war in 1967, Galieo and Marconi used Suez on both outbound and homeward voyages between Italy and Australia, calling at Singapore and one or more Asian ports on the homeward voyage.

During the years that Suez was closed, the pair travelled around the Cape of Good Hope in both directions on many voyages but made an occasional around the world voyage, sometimes eastbound, sometimes westbound. They also did cruises out of Sydney.

In early 1976 Marconi was transferred to Italia and was used in their South America service, leaving the Australia service to Galileo. Galileo provided this service on an eastbound around the word route.

In 1977, Galileo's published itinerary was Genoa, Naples, Messina, Suez, Djibouti, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Noumea, Tahiti, Acapulco, Panama Canal, Curacao, Malaga, Messina, Naples, Genoa. It was a 68 day itinerary but passengers travelling Genoa to Genoa had 69 day/nights on board due to the fact that it was an eastbound voyage.

The Italian government ordered Lloyd Triestino to withdraw Galileo from service in June 1977 while the ship was in Australia on her second voyage of the year.

Brian

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TomS
First Class Passenger
Member # 453

posted 10-05-2011 02:39 PM

Hello!!!
Those Italian ocean liner of the late 1950's ear;y 1960's were really stunning IMO. When did the LEONARDO DA VINCI go on her famous TRans-Canal/Hawauii cruise? She was some ship. It was so tragic when she caught fire.
TCS

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 10-05-2011 03:28 PM

WOW great pictures. Did you know that at the end of the 60's Italian Line offered the Leonardo to HAL knowing they where thinking of replacing the ageing Nieuw Amsterdam. HAL refused because of the split engine room here 3 class system and high oil consumption. On there turn HAL offered Home Lines to take over there new Oceanic but Home Lines refused that offer.

Greetings Ben.

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