Discovery (ship, 1971)
 The Discovery , 2009 in Trondheim
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The Discovery was a cruise ship that was built in 1970/71 by Rheinstahl Nordseewerke in Emden as an island venture for the shipping company Norwegian Cruiseships.
Between 1972 and 1999 she sailed for P&O Princess Cruises as Island Princess and at that time served as an alternative location for the American TV series Love Boat alongside the sister ship Pacific Princess .
history
The construction of the ship was commissioned by the shipping company Norwegian Cruiseships at the North Sea Works at the end of the 1960s, together with the sister ship Sea Venture . Norwegian Cruiseships was half owned by the Norwegian shipowner Øivind Lorentzen and half by the Oslo shipping company Fearnley & Eger . Even during the construction of the first ship, there was such a massive miscalculation that a prefabricated construction under the agreed conditions would have led to the closure of the shipyard. After several managing directors of the shipyard were dismissed in autumn 1969 because of the high losses of millions, the new management, chaired by Rainer Wollmann, succeeded in renegotiating higher prices, whereupon the ships could be continued.
The launching of Iceland venture took place on March 6, 1971. and baptism by Rut Brandt followed on 14 December 1971 in Oslo. On January 4, 1972, the ship was handed over to the client Norwegian Cruiseships and used from 1972 on cruises between the USA and Bermuda .
In April 1975 the ship was sold to P&O Princess Cruises together with the sister ship Sea Venture . The couple was renamed Pacific Princess and Island Princess . The Island Princess was sold to the Hyundai Merchant Marine Company in 1999 and renamed Hyundai Pungak . In the following years it was used to transport South Korean pilgrims. In 2001 it was sold again to Fiducia Shipping and renamed to Platinum .
The ship was owned by Discovery Cruises in late 2001, and the name changed to Discovery the following year . From 2004 the ship was directed by V Ships Leisure Sam and in 2005 the ship was transferred to the company Voyages of Discovery (All Leisure Group). In 2009 Half Moon Island was a stop on an Antarctic cruise in the South Shetland Islands .
From February 2013 to October 2014 the ship sailed for Cruise & Maritime Voyages , where the ship was replaced by the Azores in 2015 . On October 6, 2014, the ship finished its last voyage in Bristol . The Discovery was renamed Amen in October 2014 and registered in St. Kitts and Nevis . On October 16, 2014, the owner, All Leisure Group, announced the sale of the ship to Liberty Resources Inc. of Nassau, Bahamas, which announced the impending scrapping on October 14, 2014. On December 8th, the Amen was beached in Alang and subsequently scrapped.
The Island Princess as "Love Boat"
In addition to the Pacific Princess , which was shown in almost every episode of the ABC series Love Boat, which was broadcast in the USA from 1977 , the sister ship Island Princess and other cruise ships in the series were also seen more often . The term Love Boat was very prominent in the advertising of Princess Cruises.
literature
- "Island Venture" from RNSW . In: Hansa . Vol. 109, No. 1 , January 1972, p. 12 .
Web links
- Information about the ship , Ship-DB
Individual evidence
- ^ M / S Island Venture. Retrieved October 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Newspaper tears at the FDP Emden ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Voyages of Discovery. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 5, 2014 ; Retrieved November 30, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
