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This page is one of a series showing mainly shipping
and other transport images from a cruise on
Ocean Countess
in 2010 to Amsterdam, returning to Hull. This was the first cruise on
charter to Cruise & Maritime Voyages.
Launched by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen in 1974,
Cunard
Countess was moved to La Spezia for fitting out, entering service
with Cunard Line in August 1976.
Sistership was Cunard
Princess. She originally had a white funnel like the Cunard
Adventurer, which she replaced in service. In 1982/83 she was used as a
troop ship during the Falklands conflict.
Cunard
Countess was sold to Royal Olympic in 1997 becoming the
Olympic
Countess (later Olympia Countess). Following the collapse
of Royal Olympia in 2004, Olympia Countess was bought by Majestic
International Cruises who renamed her Ocean Countess. She was
chartered to Globalia in 2005, and to the German tour operator Holiday
Kreuzfahrten in 2006, as Lili Marleen. Holiday Kreuzfahrten failed
later in 2006 and returned to her owners. She was planned operate 3- and
4-day cruises out of Piraeus in 2007 as Ocean Countess for
subsidiary Monarch Cruises, on the schedule originally advertised for
Ocean Monarch. However, she was chartered for 2007 to Louis Hellenic
Cruise Lines and renamed Ruby, to replace the lost Sea Diamond.
Ocean Monarch was reactivated in her place. In 2009 she ran as
New Pacific with Quail Cruises. From 2010
Ocean Countess
operated for Cruise & Maritime Voyages
(CMV)
in the UK market. Replaced with CMV by Discovery, she was laid up
in Greece. She suffered a fire whilst being prepared for a 2014 charter on
30th November 2013.
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