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Everglades. On her last New York departure, she sailed on a four-day mini-cruise to Montreal on 5 April 1970, before commencing the first of the 11 Atlantic crossings that she undertook in 1970 during which the liner maintained an 82 per cent load factor. Over the winter of 1970-71 her cruise season lasted 7 December through 17 April before she returned to servicing the transatlantic trade. While one day out of Liverpool heading for Canada there was a blowback in one of her boilers which caused a fire in the boiler room at 8:15pm on 22 August 1971. It was serious enough that passengers were assembled by the life boats, but the fire was under control within ten minutes.
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the year. While on a voyage from
Liverpool in September of that year mechanical trouble caused the vessel to end her voyage at Quebec on 18 September 1963 where all her passengers disembarked. She then proceeded to Montreal without them, where repairs were undertaken. Her next voyage from Liverpool was disrupted by a strike of St Lawrence longshoremen, which prevented her from berthing following her arrival off Quebec on 8 October 1963. After two days at anchor she sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she discharged her passengers and cargo. On 15 October she departed for Liverpool with one First class and five Tourist class passengers, looked after by a crew of 400.
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had the impact of a devalued US dollar which had reduced the profitably of the cruise voyage as well as continuing labour troubles among her
British crew and in Canada. The previously announced cruises were cancelled, and she departed on 17 November 1971 from Montreal under the command of Captain W.E. Williams on her last North Atlantic crossing to Liverpool with 274 (19 First and 255 Tourist) passengers aboard and 360 crew. She made her final arrival at Liverpool on 23 November 1971 having completing 121 transatlantic voyages and 82 cruises for the Canadian Pacific line, thus closing for good the Liverpool–Canada link.
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Indies cruises from New York, she departed on 9 February 1962 carrying 640 passengers on a 61-day, 31 port voyage of the
Mediterranean. The ship then returned to the transatlantic service for the rest of the year during which she and her sister Empresses made a total of 33 round voyages between Liverpool and Montreal. On 18 February 1963 the ship departed from New York on her second Mediterranean cruise which over 61 days called at 28 ports. For this cruise which offered single-sitting dining the passenger capacity was limited to 570 guests with 70 extra catering staff employed to look after them.
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on 8 February 1968, but was pulled free with no damage. On 4 May in that same year she struck a whale which became impaled on her bow. It was dislodged by going full astern. In 1968 she made 24 transatlantic sailings followed by 16 cruises with the season being extended by her sailing from New York on 3 June 1969 direct to
Liverpool, from where she made three summer cruises: 14 days to the Scandinavian capitals and the North Cape starting on 2 July, a three-day mini cruise on 1 August, and a 15-day Mediterranean trip on 19 September, interspersed with the occasional transatlantic service.
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and 200 crew on board, on her first cruise without any major refurbishments in order to bring in some income. At that time she was the largest passenger ship using the port of Miami and fully laden her draft caused her to run aground as she departed. After twenty-four hours of attempting to free her, the passengers were disembarked. After being refloated and being found to be watertight the passengers rejoined the ship and the cruise continued. This mishap caused some competitors calling the vessel “Mardi Gras On The Rocks”.
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192 first class passengers and 856 tourist class. All first class cabins and 70% of tourist class had private facilities. The indoor pool, cinema and two-floor high Canada Room were shared by both classes. During the cruise seasons, the vessel operated as a one class ship. The interior was designed by
Patrick McBride of McInnis, Gardiner and Paul Gell.
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of passengers due to the strike meant that the 1,087 passengers she carried on this voyage was her highest ever. Over the 1966-67 winter season she made seven cruises between 10 December 1966 and 24 March 1967. Among the 24 transatlantic sailings that she completed in 1967 she made a five special Expo branded sailings from
Liverpool to support
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1,006 passengers that she landed at Quebec on 12 July 1965 were immigrants. A strike had prevented her transporting them all the way to
Montreal and the same for the next crossing from Liverpool. Over the winter season from 11 December 1965 to 19 March 1966 the ship made eight cruises of up to 15 days in duration.
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Carnival was constantly financially struggling but the company's strategy of marketing the array of activities and entertainment available on board the ship, rather than its destination eventually caught on, so that by 1975 Carnival was making a profit. By 1975 business had improved to such
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The liner departed from
Montreal on 10 November 1961 at the end of her inaugural transatlantic season bound for Liverpool, from where she departed on 12 December on her maiden crossing to New York, arriving on 19 December following a delay due to bad weather off the US coast. After making three West
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route between Liverpool and Canada for the next decade. Although Canadian Pacific Railways was incorporated in Canada, the Atlantic (and pre-war Pacific) liners were owned and operated by the British registered subsidiary Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd. and were always British flagged and manned and
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A curved bulkhead wall made from mahogany and featured 24 panes of glass that was part of the ship's original Mayfair Lounge and later the casino starting from Carnival Cruise Lines and onward was salvaged by passenger ship historian Peter Knego when the ship was scrapped in 2004. The wall was later
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from service, claiming that she was becoming economically unviable. As well as the decline in transatlantic tourist numbers, immigrant patronage had collapsed as by 1970 of the 26,500 Britons who had immigrated to Canada in that year only 4,400 had travelled by sea. Also contributing to the decision
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departed Southampton on 12 February 1963 for New York. From New York she then made another Mediterranean cruise which attracted only 369 passengers, which was lower than in previous years, causing her owners to never offer it again. The ship then returned to the transatlantic service for the rest of
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As it had proven popular with the other two new "Empresses" her aluminium funnel (which was of a different design to them) was placed amidships with divided uptakes, thus ensuring a 210 feet (64 m) long view through the public rooms. She had full air-conditioning with accommodation divided into
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completed fewer and fewer trips across the Atlantic each year and by 1969 she completed only seven Atlantic voyages, compensating by spending the period between 6 December and 25 May 1970 on an extended cruise season during which she made 11 Caribbean cruises of between nine and 20 days in duration
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Her owners had programmed a total of 23 transatlantic sailings for 1966 but a strike by the National Union of Seamen disrupted these plans. This caused her to sit after docking at Liverpool on 20 May until the 4 July when she was finally able to depart for Montreal, arriving on 11 July. The backlog
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cruises of between nine and 16 days in duration. The last of the cruises departed from New York on 27 March 1964 with 715 passengers which was the most she had ever carried up until then. On her regular transatlantic crossings she continued to carry many immigrants, an example being that 500 of the
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in 1999. Coincidentally perhaps, around this time Carnival acquired a share of Airtours plc (around 23%) – though primarily to secure distribution of the Carnival brand through the tour operator. This was a relatively short lived liaison. A quid-pro-quo agreement was made between Royal Olympic and
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was a good choice for the new company as she had been well-maintained and was in better condition than a number of the vessels offering cruises from Miami. As the newly established company was in a very weak financial position the ship soon after departed Miami on 11 March 1972 with 530 passengers
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with a break as an accommodation ship in July 2001 for delegates and press attending the G8 summit being held at Genoa. By 2003 the aging vessel was in need of a complete refurbishment so to avoid this expense she was laid up in that same year. Taking advantage of higher prices currently being
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from the United Kingdom to Panama with a measurement of 18,261 GRT (1,826,100 cu ft; 51,710 m) under Panamanian measurement rules. This saved on dock dues, while Carnival advertised what was their first ship as "27,000 tons of fun!" Her departure from Tilbury was delayed by the
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The ship's first cruise from Britain departed from Liverpool on 21 December 1962 and called at Madeira, Tenerife, Sao Vincente, Las Palmas, Casablanca and Tangier, before ending at Southampton on 7 January 1963. Subsequent she departed on 10 January 1963 on a 28-day cruise of the West Indies.
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double reduction geared turbines, one for each of her two propellers. The hull was strengthened for ice and fitted with Denny-Brown stabilisers. Designed for a service speed of 20 kn (23 mph; 37 km/h), she achieved 23 kn (26 mph; 43 km/h) on her trials.
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She remained at Liverpool until 14 December and then sailed with a skeleton crew (of under a 100) under the command of Captain Richard Walgate for London's Tilbury docks to be laid up pending sale, arriving (for the first and only time) at her port of registry on 17 December.
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On 29 March what was subsequently to be the company's last passenger liner was commissioned into Canadian Pacific service at Liverpool. She remained at Liverpool for a month during which time she was open for inspection by the travel trade and reporters.
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transferred from Airtours Sun Cruises (the Airtours in-house cruise division) management to Royal Olympic under a third party management agreement. This agreement also included an option to purchase at the end of the newly agreed management deal.
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National Union of Seamen who picketed the ship in protest about the threat to their members of ships sailing under flags of convenience, which allowed them to pay lower wages. As a result, tug crews and lock gate men at Tilbury 'blacked' the
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left Liverpool bound for Montreal on her maiden voyage, arriving on the 2 May having become the largest passenger ship to sail up the St Lawrence River. Among the 912 passengers (147 First and 765 Tourist) was author
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charter agreement and in 2000 all voyages planned for the vessel were cancelled and she was returned to Greece where she was laid up. This agreement saw the Airtours vessel MS
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Canadian Pacific: the Story of the Famous Shipping Line
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