Maritime History

• Sovereign Class (Royal Caribbean Line)

Listener Question

• Brilliant content I love the weekly upload. Baz your do a great job making the news interesting I love the little history snippets Chris brings each week! I notice Chris refers to ocean liners or cruise ships but what’s the technical difference? Is Pacific Aria a superliner as it is painted like the old ships of the past while Pacific Dawn and Pacific Explored are painted like cruise ships?

Cruise News:

• Holland America Line Extends pause until 15 Dec 2020
• Seabourn’s extended pause is ship specific, Seabourn Encore: 25 Nov, Seabourn Ovation: 20 Dec 2020 and Seabourn Sojourn effective through 24 May 24, 2021.
• Viking cancelled remaining cruise departures through year’s end.
• Silversea Cruises’ Silver Spirit is being chartered by Red Sea Cruises (Saudi Arabia)
• Royal Caribbean Group announce Celebrity Beyond and Wonder of the Seas delayed to 2022.
• Viking Cruises reveal the name of next new ship to be Viking Mars
• Veendam is in Katakolo (Greece) where according to marine traffic her name has been changed to Aegean Majesty

CLIA

• Pete recommends 5 ports of call where shore excursions are highly recommended
•               Alaska
•               Reykjavik, Iceland
•               Ho Chi Minh, (Saigon) Vietnam
•               Alexandria, Egypt
•               St. Petersburg, Russia  

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