Coral (ship)
 The Coral off Barcelona, October 2008
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The Coral was a cruise ship owned by the Louis Cruises shipping company that entered service in 1971 as the Cunard Adventurer for the British Cunard Line . The ship remained until the fall of 2011 in the service and, after just over two years Aufliegezeit 2014 Indian Alang scrapped.
Planning and construction
The Cunard Adventurer was built under shipyard number 329 at Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij in Rotterdam and launched on February 2, 1971. The Cunard Adventurer , together with her sister ship the Cunard Ambassador, was the first newbuild of the Cunard Line to be configured exclusively for cruises and the smallest ship in the shipping company's fleet.
period of service
Cunard Line
The Cunard Adventurer was delivered to the Cunard Line on October 19, 1971 and put into service on November 19, 1971. The first voyage took the ship from Southampton to the Caribbean , where it was used for cruises from then on. In 1976 the Cunard Adventurer collided with the Carla C. during a cruise , but was not seriously damaged and was therefore able to continue its voyage. After two larger newbuildings, the Cunard Countess and the Cunard Conquest , were put into service, Cunard sold the Cunard Adventurer to the Kloster Cruise Line in 1977 . Her sister ship, the Cunard Ambassador, was sold as a total loss after a serious fire in 1974 and converted into an animal transporter in 1975 .
Monastery cruise line
Under the new name Sunward II , the ship was modernized at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven and continued to be used for Caribbean cruises for Kloster Cruise Line and its successor Norwegian Cruise Line under the flag of the United Kingdom. From 1987 the ship was registered in the Bahamas .
Epirotiki Lines
In 1991 the Greek Epirotiki Lines bought the ship and renamed it Triton . The new area of operation for the ship registered in Piraeus was the Mediterranean . In 1995 the Triton was chartered by Royal Olympic Cruises . On June 4, 1996, the ship had to be evacuated after a fire in the engine room. After repair work in Piraeus, however, it was able to be put back into service that same month.
Louis Cruises
In 2005, the Cyprus- based shipping company Louis Cruises bought the ship and continued to use it for Mediterranean cruises under the name Coral before it was retired in autumn 2011 and launched in Eleusis . In 2010 the ship started sailing under the flag of Malta . Originally, the ship was supposed to be modernized in the summer of 2014 and put back into service as Louis Rhea , but this was not realized. Instead, the Coral was renamed Cora in December 2013 and sold for scrapping in Alang, India, where it arrived in January 2014 under the flag of St. Kitts and Nevis . The demolition of the 43-year-old ship was completed by autumn 2014.
literature
- Jaroslav Coplák, Pavol Pevný: passenger ships. Dausien 1996, ISBN 3-7684-0570-2
Web links
- The ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- technical data and pictures of the ship on shipparade.com (English)
Footnotes
- ^ Micke Asklander: M / S CUNARD AMBASSADOR. Retrieved November 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Peter Knego: Un-RHEA-lised: Ex CUNARD ADVENTURER To Scrap Heap - Updated. December 10, 2013, accessed January 9, 2016 .