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Cruise Line ship Nordic
Prince. Nordic Prince was the second of two
sisters built for Royal Caribbean, being delivered from Helsinki
builders Wartsila in 1971. 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the world, breaking new territories for RCCL, when superseded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 was due to continue 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.
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2004-
- Arielle - Transocean Tours (charter):
2006-
- Carousel - Airtours/Sun Cruises/MyTravel:
1994-2004
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Prince
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- Nordic Prince
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1971-1994)
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- Nordic
Prince
was the second of two sisters built for Royal Caribbean, being
delivered from Helsinki builders Wartsila in 1971. She was 18000
tons as built, and carried 724 passengers. In 1980, she 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new territories for RCCL, when superseded by larger ships in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. She was sold to Airtours (now largely owned by main rivals Carnival) in 1994, becoming their
Carousel. The distinctive sky
lounge on the funnel was removed as part of the deal, greatly
improving her appearance.
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- This
card by Gulfstream (Miami) shows Nordic Prince in original
condition (plus Sun Viking and three NCL ships) at Miami
(serial GS1016/2)
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- Astral
Graphics postcard 670 of Nordic Prince following lengthening.
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- Carousel
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1994-2004)
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- Carousel was built in 1971 as
the Nordic Prince, the second of three Royal Caribbean sisterships. She was
lengthened in 1978, and bought by Airtours in 1994. Part of the
sale agreement with RCI was that the distinctive
'Sky Lounge' around the funnel was removed, improving the ship's
appearance in the process. In later years she received a revised
MyTravel colour scheme.
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- In April
2004, it was announced that Carousel would join the Louis Cruise
Lines
fleet, under the name Aquamarine. She was initially chartered back to
MyTravel, and was due to continue with them until May 2005, the
last MyTravel ship to remain in service. From June 2005 she cruised
out of Genoa on a 7-day Mediterranean itinerary, under the Louis
Hellenic Cruises banner.
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- Official
Sun Cruises card C16784X of Carousel.
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- Official
Sun Cruises card C16792X of Carousel.
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- An
unusual official Sun Cruises card of Carousel, advertising
her winter Caribbean circuit.
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- Official
Sun Cruises multi-view card AIR/SC/01 of Carousel.
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- Latest
official Sun Cruises card of Carousel.
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- Edicions
Images (Menorca) card of Carousel at Port de Mao, Menorca.
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- Postcard of Carousel in MyTravel
colours at Madeira.
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- Aquamarine - Arielle
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Cruise Lines: 2004- )
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- In April
2004, it was announced that Carousel would join the Louis Cruise Lines fleet, under the name
Aquamarine. She was initially chartered back to MyTravel,
and was due to continue with them until May 2005, the last MyTravel
ship to remain in service. From June 2005 she 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.
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- Louis
image of Aquamarine.
- Scan:
Marika Millar
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- Arielle at Dubrovnik
- Photo:
© Neven Jerkovic
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- Arielle at Dubrovnik
- Photo:
© Neven Jerkovic
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- Arielle arriving at Tilbury
on a Norwegian Cruise
- Photo:
© Ian Boyle, 25th May 2007
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