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Celebrity Cruises
Page 4: Le Havre - 3rd May 2012
Ship Name: CELEBRITY ECLIPSE -
Ship type: Passenger/Cruise - Year of Build: 2010
IMO Ship No:
9404314 - Gross Tonnage: 122,000 - Deadweight 9,500
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This page is one of a series showing images from a 13
night transatlantic positioning cruise on
Celebrity Eclipse
in April 2012 from Miami to
Southampton.
Celebrity Eclipse
is a Solstice-class cruise ship, operated by
Celebrity Cruises. She is the
sister ship of
Celebrity
Solstice and
Celebrity Equinox,
which entered service in November 2008 and July 2009, respectively.
Celebrity Eclipse
measures 122,000 gross tons and carries 2,852 passengers (double occupancy)
plus crew.
Two further ships Celebrity Silhouette (Meyer yard number 679) and
Celebrity Reflection (Meyer yard number 691) were delivered
in 2011 and 2012.
Celebrity Eclipse sailed
from Southampton during Summer 2010 offering itineraries in the
Mediterranean and Northern Europe. She returned to sailing from
Southampton in Summers 2011 and 2102, sailing from Miami in the winters.
In response to the shutdown of UK airspace due to the eruption of Iceland's
Eyjafjallajökull volcano, the newly completed
Celebrity Eclipse was used to
rescue 2000 British tourists stranded in Spain as "an act of goodwill" by
the owners. The ship departed from Southampton for Bilbao on April 21, and
returned on April 23. Celebrity Eclipse
official maiden voyage was on April 29, 2010, departing Southampton to Cobh,
Ireland.
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Celebrity Cruises
Page 4: Le Havre - 3rd May 2012
Ship Name: CELEBRITY ECLIPSE -
Ship type: Passenger/Cruise - Year of Build: 2010
IMO Ship No:
9404314 - Gross Tonnage: 122,000 - Deadweight 9,500
Each image links to a larger copy which opens in a
new window/tab
Independence of the Seas
Royal Caribbean: 2008-
Ship Name: Independence of the Seas - Ship Type:
Passenger - Year Built: 2008 - Length x Breadth: 339m x 38m
Dead Weight: 10600 t - Flag: Bahamas - Call Sign: C6WW4 - IMO: 9349681 -
MMSI: 309374000
Celebrity Eclipse hung reversed into her
berth and was alongside by 5:30am. It was dark and pouring with rain.
Independence of the Seas passed us at around 6:30am before swinging
around and berthing towards the sea. She was then far too close to us to get
any pictures of the whole ship until we left our berth at 8:00pm, by which
time is was virtually dark again. Therefore none of the images below are
very good quality.
Independence of the Seas at Le Havre
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2012
Norman Voyager arrived at Le Havre early
morning from her overnight sailing from Portsmouth. She remained berthed
until 5pm when set returns to Portsmouth. Weather on her arrival was too
poor for photographs, but it cleared a bit minutes before her departure./
Norman Voyager leaving Le Havre at 5pm
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2012
In 1832 a horse omnibus service began between the
Musée and the Octroi de Rouen (Boulevard de Graville). By 1860, the town is
served by two lines. In 1872, a Belgium businessman Frédéric de la Hault
presented a tramway project to the municipal council. After authorisation
was given, construction began with the first horse drawn tramway opening on
1 February 1874 between Musée and the Barrière d’Or (Octroi de Rouen). A
second line opened on the 15th of the same month between the town hall and
the Rond-Point. Le Havre was the fourth city in France to possess a tramway
network after Paris, Lille and Nancy. The tramways were run by the
Compagnie générale française de tramways (CGFT), an association between
Frédéric de la Hault and the Banque Française et Italienne. CGFT
also ran tramways in Nancy, Orléans and Marseille. The system grew and in
1894 electrification of all lines was completed, the first major city in
France to achieve this. 40 trams were acquired from the Compagnie
française de matériel de chemin de fer in Yvry. Numbered 1-40, the
first 24 trams had a single 25hp motor. The remaining 16 had two identical
motors for use on hilly routes. Eight similar trams were acquired later.
Additional extensions were opened until 1912, by which time the system was
carrying 23.6 million passengers per year over 42km of routes. Trams 70-93
were delivered for the coast routes from 1896-99. In 1913, trams 93-104,
built by CGFT for Marseille, were transferred to le Havre.
In independent rival to CGFT started operations in 1899 with a single-track
meter gauge electric tramway starting from the pier at Le Havre to the small
industrial town Montivilliers and serving the station, and Graville
Harfleur, a distance of 14.3km. It was operated with 20 60hp motor trams and
10 trailers. Passenger numbers were not high and services were steadily
reduced. It was taken over by CGFT in 1908. The Montivilliers trams were
numbered 50-69 by CGFT.
The CGFT lines received little maintenance during WW1 and the company could
not afford the necessary investment to rehabilitate the system. A new
contract to operate the lines was negotiated allowing fare increases and
reduced services. Line closures began in 1920. The municipality introduced
its first motor buses in 1928, and trolleybuses followed in 1938. The only
new trams were 104-109, delivered in 1932 by the Société Auxiliaire
Française de Tramways (SAFT) for use on the Gare-Sanvic-Bléville route.
The tram system closed after the German occupation in WW2, but was later
restarted at the request of the occupiers. There were over 120 Allied
bombing raids between 1941 and 1944 which caused huge damage to the city and
its tramways. The worst raids were flown Allied aircraft on 5 and 6
September 1944 , which transformed the centre of Le Havre into a heap of
ruins and destroyed almost all of the facilities CGFT. Of the 107 trams and
26 trailers existing before war, only 25 and 10 respectively were still
usable by its end. In 1947, 37 trams were modernised and, I believe,
renumbered from 105-142, since images exist of these numbers. However the
last tram ran on 4th June 1951.
Map of the old tramway at its peak
Map of the new tramway, due to open late in 2012
Postcards of the original electric tramway which ran
between 1894-1951
Tramway at Le Havre Gare
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2012
Postcards of the 1933 station the original clock tower
(destroyed in WW2?)
The first card features one of the old trams, looking very strange in front
of the modern building
Postcards of the pre-1933 station
Postcards of an accident at Le Havre station on 17th
June 1907
Le Havre - Palais de Justice
Tramway works at Le Havre - Palais de justice
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2012
Postcards showing the earlier tramway at the Palais de
Justice
Le Havre rubber-tyred funiculaire in 2012
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2012
Postcards of the original funiculaire
Other Celebrity Eclipse 2012 Cruise Pages:-
Miami -
sea
days -
Punta Delgado
- sea days
- La Coruna -
sea day
-
Le Havre - pages
still under construction
- Simplon Postcards facebook page
