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Holiday Kreuzfahrten

 

 

This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of Holiday Kreuzfahrten. 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 is a Fleet List in chronological order.

 

Holiday Kreuzfahrten started cruises with the chartered Mona Lisa in 2002. Mona Lisa had been built as Kungsholm (4) in 1966, and later served with P&O as Sea Princess and Victoria. She was joined by Lili Marleen in 2006, originally Cunard Countess. However, the company went bankrupt in September that year, and the two ships were returned to their owners.

 

 

Ships on This Page:-

Mona Lisa - Holiday Kreuzfahrten: 2002-2006

Lili Marleen - Holiday Kreuzfahrten: 2006

 

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Table of Ship Histories

Name	Other names	Built
Lili Marleen	Cunard Countess, Olympic Countess, Olympia Countess, Ocean Countess	1975
Mona Lisa	Kungsholm (4), Sea Princess, Victoria	1966

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mona Lisa

(Holiday Kreuzfahrten charter: 2002-2006)

 

Kungsholm (4) was built by John Brown, Clydebank in 1966, and entered service with Swedish America. She was sold to Flagship Cruises in 1975, retaining her name. The Kungsholm (4) was then bought by P&O in 1979 to replace the aging Arcadia. She was given a major overhaul in Bremen, which ruined her classic liner appearance, and renamed Sea Princess. Initially operated by P&O Cruises in the Australian, then British markets, she was later transferred to the US market and appeared in Princess Cruises colours. She eventually returned to P&O Cruises, and has subsequently been renamed Victoria. In Winter 1999/2000 Victoria operated a cruise on charter to the Union-Castle Line, and received a red/black funnel. It was announced in February 2001 that Victoria would be withdrawn and replaced in the P&O Cruises fleet from November 2002 with the Princess Cruises ship Ocean Princess, which would be renamed Oceana from November 2002. Victoria was sold to Leonardo Shipping, who chartered her to Holiday Kreuzfahrten as Mona Lisa.

 

Complete history of Mona Lisa

 

 

An official postcard of Mona Lisa, with initial funnel colours.

 

 

Mona Lisa, with initial funnel colours.

 

 

Mona Lisa at Dubrovnik.

Photo: © Ivo Batricevic

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Mona Lisa at Dubrovnik.

Photo: © Ivo Batricevic

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Mona Lisa at Dubrovnik.

Photo: © Ivo Batricevic

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Mona Lisa, showing later red funnel.

Photo: © Peter Therkildsen, 2003.

 

 

Mona Lisa at Dubrovnik.

Photo: © Ivo Batricevic

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Mona Lisa at Dubrovnik.

Photo: © Ivo Batricevic

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Mona Lisa at Dover, on one of her last cruises before the failure of Holiday Kreuzfahrten.

Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1st September 2006

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Mona Lisa at Dover.

Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1st September 2006

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Mona Lisa at Dover.

Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1st September 2006

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Mona Lisa at Dover.

Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1st September 2006

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Mona Lisa at Dover.

Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1st September 2006

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Mona Lisa at Dover.

Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1st September 2006

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Mona Lisa at Dover.

Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1st September 2006

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Mona Lisa at Dover.

Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1st September 2006

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Mona Lisa at Dover.

Photo: © Ian Boyle, 1st September 2006

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Lili Marleen

(Holiday Kreuzfahrten charter: 2006)

 

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. Cunard Countess was given Cunard funnel colours in 1980. 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 Lili Marleen was returned to her owners, Majestic International Cruises. She will operate 3- and 4-day cruises out of Piraeus in 2007 for subsidiary Monarch Cruises, possibly in place of the advertised Ocean Monarch?

 

Complete history of Ocean Countess

 

 

Majestic International Cruises official card of Ocean Countess

 

 

Official Holiday Kreuzfahrten postcard of Lili Marleen

Scan: Dimas Almada

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Collage from a Lili Marleen cruise.

Photos: © Tien-Lun Yao, 2006

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Lili Marleen on a Baltic cruise.

Photos: © Tien-Lun Yao, 2006

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Lili Marleen on a Baltic cruise.

Photos: © Tien-Lun Yao, 2006

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Lili Marleen at Helsinki.

Photos: © Tien-Lun Yao, 2006

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Lili Marleen at Helsinki.

Photos: © Tien-Lun Yao, 2006

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Lili Marleen funnel.

Whilst the Mona Lisa has a replica of the famous painting, Lili Marleen looks more like Princess Diana, which seems a little tasteless.

Photos: © Tien-Lun Yao, 2006

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Lili Marleen at Dubrovnik.

Photos: © Ivo Batricevic

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Lili Marleen at Dubrovnik.

Photos: © Ivo Batricevic

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