Transocean Tours - Simplon Postcards



This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of German cruise operator Transocean Tours. An alphabetical list of ships shown on this page is shown below. The Table beneath gives links to complete history pages on selected individual ships. Below the table are Fleet Lists of Ocean Cruise Ships and River Cruise ships in chronological order.

Transocean Tours Touristik was formed in 1954, eventually operating ocean and river cruises for the German market using chartered vessels. The company was formed by the ship broker D.Oltmann as Transocean Passagierdienst D.Oltmann & Co. From 1967, Transocean acted as the German general agents of the Baltic Shipping Company of Leningrad, and they began selling cruises on the Aleksandr Pushkin and later the Estonia. The first full ship charter the company took was with the Estonia in 1972, which was rebuilt as a full cruise ship in Marseille, with full air conditioning and facilities in all cabins. She had been built in 1960 for both liner and cruising voyages. Transocean used the Estonia until 1985. She was joined between 1979 and 1984 by the Aleksandr Pushkin, which returned to the fleet in 2008 as the Marco Polo. The Odessa joined the fleet in 1982, and remained (although possibly with a break in 1987) until 1995. The Black Sea Shipping Company vessel Lev Tolstoi was chartered between 1986-1988. She was replaced by another Black Sea Shipping Company vessel Fedor Dostoevskiy (originally the second Astor), between 1988-1990. Fedor Dostoevskiy later reverted to her original name, and returned to Transocean Tours in 1996, remaining in the fleet in 2008.

In 1990 the Transocean Tours fleet consisted of Fedor Dostoevskiy and Odessa, plus the river cruisers Moldavia and Ukraina. Later in the year, Fedor Dostoevskiy was replaced by the return of the Lev Tolstoi. She was then joined by the small Columbus Caravelle (7560 grt), making a three ship ocean fleet of Odessa, Lev Tolstoi and Columbus Caravelle. Odessa was arrested in April 1995, and replaced by the Calypso. In 1996 there were plans to charter the Regent Sea which was due to revert to her original name of Gripsholm. The problems at Regency Cruises caused the charter to be cancelled (Transocean had already had there fair share of with the problems at Black Sea Shipping) and so they took the Sagafjord instead for the 1996 season only. She was also renamed Gripsholm since publicity under this name had already been published. For 1997, Lev Tolstoi and Ukraina had been released, and the Fedor Dostoevskiy returned as Astor. Calypso was also released, and the fleet consisted of just Astor and Moldavia until 2001 when Ukraina returned. Astoria, originally the first 1981 Astor, joined the fleet in 2002, chartered until April 2009. In 2003, river cruise ship Swiss Crown joined the fleet, replacing Ukraina. She was joined by near sister Swiss Corona in 2005.

Arielle was chartered from Louis Cruise Lines for 2006 and 2007. She was originally the Nordic Prince of Royal Caribbean, later the Carousel and Aquamarine. She was replaced by the Marco Polo in 2008. In 2006 and 2007 Transocean Tours offered a number of UK market cruises from Tilbury with the Arielle. These were extended in 2008 with the Marco Polo.


Sections on This Page:-
Ocean Cruise Ships
River Cruise ships

Ships on This Page:-
Aleksandr Pushkin (Built: 1966 - Transocean Tours 1979-84) - later: Marco Polo
Arielle (Built: 1971 - Transocean Tours charter: 2006- )
Astor (2) (Built: 1987 - Transocean Tours charter: 1996- )
Astoria (Built: 1981 - Transocean Tours charter: 2002- )
Calypso (Built: 1967 - Transocean Tours charter: 1994-1998)
Columbus Caravelle (Built: 1990 - Transocean Tours charter: 1992-1994)
Estonia (Built: 1960 - Transocean Tours charter: 1972-1985)
Fedor Dostoevskiy (Built: 1987 - Transocean Tours charter: 1988-90) ex-Astor (2), later Astor again
Gripsholm (1) (Built: 1957 - Transocean Tours proposed charter 1996)
Gripsholm (2) (Built: 1965 - Transocean Tours charter: 1996)
Lev Tolstoi (Built: 1981 - Transocean Tours charter: 1986-1988)
Marco Polo (Built: 1966 - Transocean Tours 2008- ) - ex-Aleksandr Pushkin
Moldavija/Moldavia (Built: 1979 - Transocean Tours charter: 19??- )
Odessa (Built: 1974 - Transocean Tours charter: 1982-1995)
Swiss Coral (Built: 1998 - Transocean Tours charter: 19??- )
Swiss Corona (Built: 2004 - Transocean Tours charter: 19??- )
Swiss Crown (Built: 2000 - Transocean Tours charter: 19??- )
Ukraina (Built: 1979 - Transocean Tours charter: 19??-19??)

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Liners & Cruises Ships - Some Notable Smaller Vessels - by Anthony Cooke - Carmania Press 1996
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Table of Ship Histories
Name Other names Built Arielle Nordic Prince, Carousel, Aquamarine 1971 Calypso Canguro Verde, Durr, Ionian Harmony, Sun Fiesta, Regent Jewel 1967 Gripsholm (1) Navarino, Regent Sea 1957 Gripsholm (2) Sagafjord, Saga Rose 1965 Lev Tolstoi Natasha, Palmira, The Jasmine, Farah 1981 Marco Polo Alexandr Pushkin 1966 Transocean Tours Fleet List

Ocean Cruise Ships

Estonia
(Built: 1960 - Transocean Tours charter: 1972-1985)

From 1967, Transocean acted as the German general agents of the Baltic Shipping Company of Leningrad, and they began selling cruises on the Aleksandr Pushkin and later the Estonia. The first full ship charter the company took was with the Estonia in 1972, which was rebuilt as a full cruise ship in Marseille, with full air conditioning and facilities in all cabins. She had been built in 1960 for both liner and cruising voyages. Transocean used the Estonia until 1985.


German postcard of Estonia at Bremerhaven on Transocean charter
Aleksandr Pushkin (also Transocean charter) and Maxim Gorkiy (Neckermann Seereisen charter) in the background
Aleksandr Pushkin (Built: 1966 - Transocean Tours 1979-84)
Marco Polo (Transocean Tours 2008- )

Marco Polo was built as the Soviet liner Aleksandr Pushkin, which became the Orient Lines' Marco Polo in 1992. The Aleksandr Pushkin was constructed at V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft Shipyard in East Germany and she entered service in 1966 with the Baltic Shipping Company on their regular trans-Atlantic service between Montreal and Leningrad. From 1967, Transocean acted as the German general agents of the Baltic Shipping Company of Leningrad, and they began selling cruises on the Aleksandr Pushkin. She became a full-time cruise ship in 1975. Between 1979-1985 Aleksandr Pushkin was chartered to Transocean Tours, after which she was transferred to the Far Eastern Shipping Company, with occasional charters to UK-based CTC. Aleksandr Pushkin was laid up in Singapore in 1990, but was bought a year later by Gerry Herrod, who had just sold his Ocean Cruise Lines to Paquet. Aleksandr Pushkin was renamed Marco Polo and began a lengthy rebuilding period. Marco Polo re-entered service with Orient Lines in 1993 on varied programme of cruises around the world. Orient Lines considered purchasing her sister Ivan Franko in 1991, but the increasing cost of the Marco Polo rebuilding deterred them. In 1998, Orient Lines was acquired by Norwegian Cruise Line, who retained the Orient Lines brand. In June 2007 it was announced that NCL would retire Marco Polo and the Orient Lines brand in March 2008 when Marco Polo arrived in Lisbon from Rio de Janeiro. Marco Polo was sold to Transocean Tours and operated a series of cruises from Tilbury and Dover during the summer of 2008 for the UK market.

Aleksandr Pushkin was the second ship of the Ivan Franko Class to be built, and the only one to survive in 2008. Her sisters were Ivan Franko (built 1964, scrapped 1997), Shota Rustaveli (built 1966, scrapped 2003), Taras Shevchenko (built 1967, scrapped 2005) and Mikhail Lermontov (built 1972, sunk 1986).


Official postcard of Aleksandr Pushkin
Scan: Ken Murayama
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury on a Norwegian Cruise
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury on a Norwegian Cruise
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Marco Polo arriving at Tilbury
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 18th July 2008
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Marco Polo arriving at Tilbury, with new blue hull riband
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Marco Polo arriving at Tilbury, with new blue hull riband
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Marco Polo arriving at Tilbury
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Marco Polo at Tilbury
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Marco Polo at Tilbury
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Marco Polo at Tilbury
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Marco Polo at Tilbury
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Marco Polo leaving Tilbury
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Odessa
(Built: 1974 - Transocean Tours charter: 1982-1995)

Odessa was ordered in 1969 from Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness as the Prins Henrik of Danmark. She was designed by Knud E.Hansen as one of four planned cruise ships for use by K/S Nordline A/S on the American West Coast. The building costs increased and Nordline put her up for sale. This did not happen and she was eventually launched without name or ceremony in December 1972. In March 1973 she was towed to the Tyne for further work by Swan, Hunter. The ship was completed, now named Copenhagen, in March 1974. She was finally sold to the Black Sea Shipping Company in June 1975 as the Odessa. She mainly operated cruises in the US market until 1982, when Soviet passenger ships were banned. Odessa subsequently ran charters with German operators and CTC, a UK subsidiary of the Soviet fleet. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Odessa passed to the Ukraine flag and lost her hammer & sickle funnel colours for a blue band with a yellow/black logo. Her final charter was with Transocean Tours, which ran until 11th April 1995 when she was arrested at Capri. Odessa was moved to Naples where she remained for some years, before being towed to the port of Odessa. She sailed to Alang for breaking up in January 2007.


Transocean Tours postcard of Odessa
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Transocean Tours postcard of Odessa
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Lev Tolstoi
(Built: 1981 - Transocean Tours charter: 1986-1988, )

Lev Tolstoi was built in 1981, one of a series of seven similar ships in the Dmitriy Shostakovich Class used by the Soviet shipping companies as ferries and passenger/cruise ships. Lev Tolstoi received a major rebuild in 1986 in Germany and was chartered to German operator Transocean Tours. In 1988 she was renamed Natasha and then Palmira for further German charters. She passed to Mano Cruise in 2001 as The Jasmine. The Jasmine was sold in August 2006 and was renamed Farah, believed for trading in the Far East.

Complete history of Lev Tolstoi


Black Sea Shipping Company postcard of Lev Tolstoi with Transocean Tours logo
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Transocean Tours postcard of Lev Tolstoi
Card back overprinted for later use on the Palmira
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Fedor Dostoevskiy (Transocean Tours charter: 1988-1990)
Astor (2) (Transocean Tours charter: 1996- )

21000 grt - 176.5 m long - 590 passengers - 15400 kW - 18 knots

Astor is the second of two near sisters of this name built by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Hamburg. She was ordered by Safmarine to replace the first Astor, later Astoria, on UK-South Africa liner voyages. Although outwardly very similar to the earlier ship, she is 12 metres longer (identifiable by the extra bank of four large windows below the first lifeboat) and far more powerful - 15400 kW compared to 9700 kW. Although her service speed remained at 18 knots, the extra power was deemed necessary to maintain the liner schedules. However, this was not to be, since Safmarine abandoned their liner voyage plans and sold her to the Marlin Corporation in 1986. She was delivered with red, white and blue funnels featuring an ML symbol (Marlin Line?), and began cruising in January 1987. She was sold the following year to the Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Fedor Dostoevskiy. In December 1988 she was chartered to Transocean Tours until March 1990, when the charter passed to Neckermann Seereisen. In 1995 she was renamed back to Astor, and chartered to Aquamarin. In 1996 Astor was registered to Astor Shipping and chartered to Transocean Tours.


Postcard of Fedor Dostoevskiy
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Transocean Tours postcard of Astor
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Transocean Tours postcard of Astor and Astoria (left)
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Transocean Tours photograph supposedly of Astoria - although the image is the Astor and was used for the postcard above
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Transocean Tours photograph supposedly of Astor and Astoria - although both ships are the Astoria
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Columbus Caravelle
(Built: 1990 - Transocean Tours charter: 1992-1994)

7560 grt - 381 ft long - 17 knots

Columbus Caravelle was built as Delphin Caravelle in 1990 for the Finnish owned Delphin Cruises. The ship's builders, Rauma Yards, also held an interest. She joined the Delphin Caravelle (1989 - 5000 grt) on short summer Baltic cruises and longer winter expedition trips. Her career with Delphin was short-lived - having joined them in June 1990, the company failed in the autumn. The ships passed back to their builders, who arranged a summer 1991 charter with Sally Line as Sally Caravelle. Rauma found a manager for Sally Caravelle with a subsidiary of the Black Sea Shipping Company (BLASCO), and BLASCO in turn arranged a charter with Transocean Tours from January 1992 as Columbus Caravelle. The charter ceased suddenly in August 1994, and Columbus Caravelle returned again to her builders, who had maintained a 95% ownership in her throughout. She subsequently had an inauspicious career as a far eastern gambling ship.


Transocean Tours postcard of Columbus Caravelle
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Transocean Tours sticker postcard of Columbus Caravelle
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Ramsey postcard of Columbus Caravelle at Harwich
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Calypso
(Built: 1967 - Transocean Tours charter: 1994-1998)

Calypso was built in 1967 by Italcantieri S.p.A., Castellammare di Stabia, as the Canguro Verde. Entered service for Navigazion Traghetti Sardi between Genoa-Barcelona-Cagliari-Porto Torres. In 1974 Canguro Verde was sold to Società Linee Canguro. In 1981 she was sold to Saudi Arabian owners as the Durr, for service between Suez and Jeddah. In 1989, Durr was sold to Strintzis Lines as the Ionian Harmony, for a Patras-Dubrovnik-Ancona service. In 1990 Ionian Harmony was sold for use as Sun Fiesta between Puerto Rico and St Thomas, but did not enter service. Instead, she was sold in 1992 to A.Lelakis for conversion to a cruise ship for his Regency Cruises. She began cruising in 1994 from New York as Regent Jewel, but Regency Cruises folded shortly afterwards. Regent Jewel was sold again to Jule Cruises, and chartered to Transocean Tours as the Calypso. In 1998 she was laid up, until sold in 2000 to Louis Cruise Lines, retaining the name Calypso.

Complete history of Calypso


Transocean Tours postcard of Calypso, still in Regency colours
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Transocean Tours postcard of Calypso
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Calypso at Bergen - Calypso passing Astor.
Photo: © Ian Boyle, July 1998
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Calypso at Bergen
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Calypso at Bergen
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Calypso at Bergen
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Calypso at Bergen
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Calypso at Bergen
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Calypso at Bergen
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Calypso at Bergen
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Calypso at Bergen
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Calypso at Bergen
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Calypso at Bergen
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Gripsholm
(Built: 1957 - Transocean Tours proposed charter 1996)

Regent Sea was sailing for the Lelakis Group's Regency Cruises in the early 1990s, when the group began to experience financial problems, and sought charter work for their ships. A charter was arranged for the Regent Sea with Transocean Tours. It was intended to rename her back to her original name Gripsholm, and this postcard was produced in anticipation. Unfortunately, the financial problems of Regency caused Transocean to cancel the charter, and Gripsholm never appeared in these colours. Transocean Tours proceeded to charter the Sagafjord from Cunard, which they also renamed Gripsholm.

Built in Italy in 1957, Gripsholm was a near sister to Kungsholm (3). She was sold to Karageorgis Lines in 1975, becoming their Navarino. She suffered a major fire in 1981, but returned to service as Regent Sea of Lelakis' Regency Cruises in 1984. She did not work again following the bankruptcy of Regency, and was lost on the way to the breakers in 2001.

In 2001 Regent Sea was sold for scrap but was lost on the delivery voyage. She was travelling with the name of Sea when she sank on the 13th July in a position 83 miles SSW of Cape Recife on the Cape south coast. The Regent Sea and the towing tug Simoon had reportedly been hove to in this position for some days, after permission to enter Algoa Bay was refused by the South African authorities. Reasons for refusing entry into the calmer waters of Algoa Bay were given as a concern over the 30 degree list of the vessel, plus the presence of 60 tons of gasoil aboard. These were deemed to be a threat to the pristine beaches of the area. The Regent Sea sank in 4,200 metres of water.

Complete history of Gripsholm


Official Transocean Tours card issued for the proposed charter of Gripsholm
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Gripsholm
(Built: 1965 - Transocean Tours charter: 1996)

Transocean Tours chartered the Sagafjord as the Gripsholm in 1996, following the cancellation of the charter of the original Gripsholm above.

Sagafjord was completed in May 1965 by Soc. des Forges de la Méditerranée (La Seyne sur Mer). The builders lost so much money on her construction that they went into liquidation the following year. Sagafjord was 24002 grt and carried 85 First and 704 Tourist passengers on Atlantic crossings, 462 in one class when cruising. She was powered by two 9 cyl Sulzer diesels totalling 27000 shp. In 1980, she and Vistafjord passed to Norwegian American Cruises (NAC), 90% owned by NAL. In 1983, Trafalgar House acquired NAC, and the ships joined the Cunard fleet, Sagafjord retaining her name. In 1996 was chartered to Transocean Tours as the Gripsholm, followed in the same year by sale to Saga Cruises as the Saga Rose.

Complete history of Gripsholm


Transocean Tours official postcard of the chartered Gripsholm (ex-Sagafjord).



Antonio Giacomelli postcard NE17 of Gripsholm
Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, 18/01/97
Astoria
(Built: 1981 - Transocean Tours charter: 2002- )

18591 grt - 164.5 m long - 500 passengers - 9700 kW - 18 knots

Astoria was the first of two near sisters named Astor built by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Hamburg. She was delivered to the Hadag Cruise Line, Hamburg, in December 1981, and was originally to have been named Hammonia (patron goddess of Hamburg). She was sold in 1984 to Safmarine, who planned to use her to re-establish UK-South Africa liner voyages. She was found to be under-powered for this, and was sold Deutsche Seerederei (though various intermediaries) in 1985. They renamed her Arkona. Ownership passed to Deutsche Seetouristik in 1994, and Arkona Touristik in in 1998. She passed on charter to Transocean Tours in 2001 (who already had the other Astor), and renamed Astoria. The charter ends in April 2009, and she has been sold to Saga to become Quest for Adventure, joining Spirit of Adventure with Saga's Spirit of Adventure brand (open to over-21s, unlike Saga Cruises which are for 50+ passengers).


Transocean Tours postcard of Astoria
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Transocean Tours postcard of Astor and Astoria (left)
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Transocean Tours publicity photograph supposedly of Astor and Astoria - although both ships are the Astoria
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Transocean Tours photograph supposedly of Astoria - although the ship is the Astor
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Transocean Tours publicity photograph of Astoria
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Astoria early morning arrival at Tilbury
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Astoria arriving at Tilbury
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Astoria arriving at Tilbury
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Astoria arriving at Tilbury
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Astoria arriving at Tilbury
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Astoria arriving at Tilbury
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Astoria arriving at Tilbury
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Arielle
(Built: 1971 - Transocean Tours charter: 2006-2008)

Arielle was the second of two sisters built for Royal Caribbean, being delivered from Helsinki builders Wartsila in 1971 as Nordic Prince. Her sister was the Song of Norway. She was 18000 tons as built, and carried 724 passengers. In 1980, Nordic Prince was lengthened by 85 feet, to carry a total of 1024 passengers and increase size to 23000 gross tons. She initially operated on 7 and 14-day cruise out of Miami, but later served throughout the world, breaking new territories for RCCL, when superseded by larger ships in the Caribbean. Nordic Prince was sold to Airtours for their Sun Cruises fleet in 1994, becoming the Carousel. The distinctive sky lounge on the funnel was removed as part of the deal, greatly improving her appearance. Her sister Song of Norway became the Sundream with Airtours. In later years, Carousel received a revised MyTravel colour scheme. In April 2004, it was announced that she would join the Louis Cruise Lines fleet, under the name Aquamarine. She was initially chartered back to MyTravel, and continued with them until May 2005, the last MyTravel ship to remain in service. From June 2005 Aquamarine cruised out of Genoa on a 7-day Mediterranean itinerary, under the Louis Hellenic Cruises banner. From April 2006, Aquamarine was chartered for five years for use by Transocean Tours, who have renamed her Arielle. She returned to Louis Cruise Lines in 2008 and reverted to previous name Aquamarine.

Complete history of Arielle


Transocean Tours postcard of Arielle
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Arielle at Dubrovnik
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Arielle at Dubrovnik
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Arielle arriving at Tilbury (early morning)
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Arielle arriving at Tilbury
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Arielle arriving at Tilbury
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Arielle at Tilbury
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Arielle at Tilbury
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Arielle at Tilbury
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Arielle at Tilbury
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Arielle at Tilbury
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Arielle at Tilbury
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River Cruise Ships

Moldavija (Built: 1979 - Transocean Tours: 19??- )
Ukraina (Built: 1979 - Transocean Tours: 19??-19??)

3200 grt - 116 m long - 170 passengers

Moldavija and Ukraina are sister river cruise vessels chartered by Transocean Tours from before 1990. Moldavija remains in the 2008 fleet, now spelt Moldavia. They are owned by Ukrainian Danube Shipping.


Transocean Tours postcard of Moldavija
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Swiss Coral (Built: 1998 - Transocean Tours: 19??- )
Swiss Crown (Built: 2000 - Transocean Tours: 19??- )
Swiss Corona (Built: 2004 - Transocean Tours: 19??- )

Chartered Transocean Tours river cruise vessels. Swiss Corona and Swiss Crown are near sisters, at 110 m long and carrying 150 passengers. Swiss Coral is smaller, 82 m long and 86 passengers.


Transocean Tours postcard of Swiss Crown
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Transocean Tours postcard of Swiss Corona
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Name	Other names	Built
Arielle	Nordic Prince, Carousel, Aquamarine	1971
Calypso	Canguro Verde, Durr, Ionian Harmony, Sun Fiesta, Regent Jewel	1967
Gripsholm (1)	Navarino, Regent Sea	1957
Gripsholm (2)	Sagafjord, Saga Rose	1965
Lev Tolstoi	Natasha, Palmira, The Jasmine, Farah	1981
Marco Polo	Alexandr Pushkin	1966