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2: Career with Greek Line & Carnival Cruises
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- This
is the second of three pages devoted to the Canadian Pacific
Liner Empress of Britain.
- Page 1 covered her Canadian Pacific career between 1956-63.
- This
page covers her career with Greek Line and Carnival Cruises 1963-94
- Page 3 covers her subsequent career with Royal Olympic
and Thomson Cruises from 1995.
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- The Empress
of Britain
was built in 1956 by Fairfields of Glasgow, preceding sister
Empress
of England
into service by one year. She was Britain's first fully air-conditioned
liner. Initially running on the North Atlantic from Liverpool,
she ran her first winter Caribbean cruise from New York in January
1960. As time passed, more of her time was spent cruising as
air travel hit the Atlantic market, and her final Atlantic voyage
was number 123, completed in October 1963, only seven years after
her maiden voyage.
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- She was sold
to the Greek
Line,
and re-entered service for them as Queen Anna Maria in 1965, running a fortnightly
service to New York calling at Naples and Lisbon. Following the
collapse of the Greek Line, she was sold to Carnival, joining
the the Mardi
Gras
(ex-Empress
of Canada)
in 1975 as the Carnivale. Following the numerous
new deliveries to Carnival, she was transferred to subsidiary
Fiesta Marine Cruises as Fiesta Marina. She was sold again in 1994 to Epirotiki as Olympic, and has recently been
on charter to British tour company Thomson as the Topaz. In 2002, Topaz received a new colour scheme. She is replaced in
the Thomson fleet in the spring of 2003, with the possibility
that she will then be chartered to Peace Boat.
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- Empress of Britain details: 25500
Gross Tons, Length: 640ft, 160 first class, 894 tourist passengers
(650 on cruising), Speed 20 knots, Engines: Steam turbines,
twin screw.
- Carnivale details: 21716
Gross Tons, 950 Cruise Passengers (1350 maximum berths)
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- Ship Names Carried:-
- Empress of Britain - Canadian Pacific Line
1956-63
- Queen
Anna Maria - Greek Line 1963-75
- Carnivale - Carnival Cruise Line
1975-94
- Fiesta
Marina
- Olympic - Epirotiki Line 1995-
- Topaz - Thomson Cruises 1998
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- Empress of Britain
Pages:-
- Empress
of Britain - Page 1 - Canadian Pacific Line 1956-63
- Empress
of Britain - Page 2 - Career following sale by Canadian
Pacific 1963
- this page!
- Empress
of Britain - Page 3 - Royal Olympic and Thomson Cruises
1995-
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- Queen Anna Maria
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Line: 1963-75)
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- Attractive
company postcard of Queen Anna Maria, scan supplied by
Ralph O'Hara.
- I
have yet to find this postcard for my own collection. If you
can help, please email: simplon@simplon.co.uk
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- Greek
Line
official card of Queen Anna Maria, and Olympia, showing the additional
superstructure added around the stern (printed in Italy). This
was the complete Greek Line fleet at the time of the financial
collapse of the line in 1975.
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- Carnivale
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Cruise: 1975-94)
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- Carnival official card of Carnivale,
with funnel logo modelled on the final CP colours. Still an attractive
looking ship.
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- Carnival
official card of Carnivale, showing Greek Line additions
aft, which at least followed the original lines.
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- Carnival
official card of Carnivale.
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- Carnival
official card of Carnivale (s/n 9).
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- Carnival
official card of Carnivale.
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- Editions
FISA card of Carnivale (s/n 10B).
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- The
front cover of the Carnival Cruise Lines official postcard album
of Carnivale. There are two tear-out card copies of each
photo, the larger at 'Continental ' size. The following 10 views
are from this booklet. (FISA, Barcelona, s/n: 50)
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- The
back cover of the Carnival Cruise Lines official postcard album
of Carnivale. (FISA, Barcelona, s/n: 59)
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- Fly
Aweigh Discotheque (FISA s/n 51)
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- Showplace
Lounge & Mardi Gras Night Club (FISA s/n 52)
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- Riverboat
Lounge (FISA s/n 53)
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- Riverboat
Club Casino (FISA s/n 54)
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- Stateroom
(s/n 55)
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- International
Dining Room & Gala Buffet (s/n 56)
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- Indoor
Pool etc (s/n 57)
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- Outdoor
Pool & Lido Bar (s/n 58)
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- An
unusual view for a cruise ship card! (s/n 59)
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- Fagan
Color Cards (Tidewater) card of Carnivale (FV-242).
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- Enlarged
view of the ship from the card above.
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- Caribe
Henco (Puerto Rico) card C33490 of Carnivale at San Juan,
Puerto Rico, Photo by Herbert E. Miller.
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- Chantry Classic card CC/S66 of Carnivale at Philadelphia,
Photo by A.O.Wilhelmi 3rd.
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- Fiesta Marina
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- FiestaMarina
Cruises (a division of Carnival) official oversized postcard
of FiestaMarina.
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- An
enlargement of the centre photograph from the official oversized
postcard of FiestaMarina shown above.
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