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This page includes photographs of ships in the news. If you have newsworthy photographs that you would like to share with other Maritime Matters readers, please email to Martin Cox at: MaritimeMatters.com
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Shipping news photos 2008
July 1, 2008: EURODAM naming at Rotterdam with Queen Beatrix, copyright Peter Knego 2008.
June 29 2008: EURODAM with Mute Swans, copyright Han Hoffman 2008.
June 11, 2008: BLUE LADY (ex NORWAY, FRANCE) copyright PK Productions/MidShipCentury.com 2007/2008 and not to be published elsewhere without explicit permission of Peter Knego.
May 17: TOPAZ arrives off Singapore and awaits at the Eastern Anchorage. Photo (c) Jonathan Boonzaier May 17, 2008.
May 16: 9AM departure, PRIDE OF ALOHA leaves Hawaii for the last time Photo (c) Kayle Harada May 16, 2008.
April 30: DELTA QUEEN wining the annual river boat race at Louisville, KY
DELTA QUEEN won the Golden Antler back from BELLE OF LOUISVILLE. Photo (c) Phillip Johnson 2008 April 30, 2008.
April 30: Last looks, TOPAZ laid up at the Daikoku pier, Yokohama before sailing today for Singapore.
Photo (c) Ken Murayama 2008 April 29, 2008.
April 24: P & O's new VENTURA pictured at Zeebrugge. Photo (c) Peter Knego Ian Fisackerly April 12 2008.
April 25: Lowering of the first NCL F3's keel plate into place France's St. Nazaire's Aker Yard shipyard.
Special coins pressed by each of the attendees were welded into the keel as part of the ceremony. Photo (c) Peter Knego 2008.
April 20: BLUE LADY (ex FRANCE, NORWAY) at Alang, India. Photo (c) www.midshipcentury.com 2008.
April 4: BLUE LADY (ex FRANCE, NORWAY) at Alang, India. Photo (c) midshipcentury.com 2008.
April 1: LUCKY (ex PRINCESA ISABEL, ODYSSEUS) at Alang, India. Photo (c) midshipcentury.com 2008.
March 30: QE2 at pier 92, Los Angeles, an hour before her final West Coast departure. Photo (c) Martin Cox 2008
March 27: QE2 at Honolulu's pier 2. Photo by Kyle Harada 2008
March 27: QE2 at Honolulu's pier 2. Photo by Kyle Harada 2008
March 24: Artist's rendering profile of the new Oceania Class vessel from Sestre-Ponente yards of Fincantieri.
March 13: GIORGIS struck a reef three miles off Poros yesterday during a Saronic Gulf cruise from Piraeus. Photo and copyright Peter Knego 2007.
BLUE LADY, taken on March 4, 2008 at Alang. The cutting has now reached the original FRANCE superstructure. Photo copyright www.midshipcentury.com Peter Knego 2008
XANADU 2 / FAITHFUL was towed and moored just south of Rio Vista, CA (On the Sacramento River) February 17, 2008. Photo (c) Michael Sharps 2008.
NORWEGIAN JADE (ex PRIDE OF HAWAI'I) on her first voyage from Los Angeles, February 16. Photo (c) Shawn Dake 2008.
Google satellite map showing former BRASIL MARU at Zhanjiang, China.
February 14: PEARL MARU (ex BRASIL MARU)
Former 1959-built Mitsui-OSK liner BRASIL MARU. The ship was reportedly broken up near Guangzhou, China but found further life preserved at Zhanjiang, China as a floating attraction. Photo (c) David Pollard 1998.
February 4: OCEANIC (ex INDEPENDENCE, SEA LUCK I, OCEANIC INDEPENDENCE, INDEPENDENCE)
receives and final salute from tug DELTA LINDA as she is towed toward the Golden Gate Bridge. Photo (c) Terry Blanchard 2008.
February 4: OCEANIC (ex INDEPENDENCE, SEA LUCK I, OCEANIC INDEPENDENCE, INDEPENDENCE) towed under the Golden Gate Bridge for the last time.
Photo copyright P.K. Productions 2008.
February 4: OCEANIC (ex INDEPENDENCE, SEA LUCK I, OCEANIC INDEPENDENCE, INDEPENDENCE) off Angel Island, Under the Golden Gate, and approaching Point Bonita in the Marin Headlands en route to her next destination.... Photo copyright P.K. Productions 2008.
February 4: OCEANIC (ex INDEPENDENCE, SEA LUCK I, OCEANIC INDEPENDENCE, INDEPENDENCE) is towed away from the shipyard in San Francisco in thick fog.
Photo copyright P.K. Productions 2008.
February 4, 2008: PRIDE OF HAWAII prepares to sail from Honolulu for Los Angeles where she will be transformed to become the NORWEGIAN JADE. Photo Kyle Harada (c) 2008.
February 4, 2008: QUEEN VICTORIA at Honolulu. Photo Kyle Harada (c) 2008.
SS BLUE LADY (ex FRANCE, NORWAY) at Alang, January 21, 2008. Photo copyright P.K. Productions 2008.
SS BLUE LADY (ex FRANCE, NORWAY) at Alang, January 21, 2008. Photo copyright P.K. Productions 2008.
Cunard liners arriving in New York Harbour, January 13, 2008. Photo Robert Bianco (c) 2008.
Cunard liners under fire works in New York Harbour, January 13, 2008. Photo courtesy Allan E. Jordan (c).
QUEEN ELIZABETH 2, January 7, 2008. Photo (c) Benjamin S. Lyons 2008 (from QUEEN VICTORIA).
Cunard liners QUEEN ELIZABETH 2, QUEEN VICTORIA and QUEEN MARY 2 gather for a photo op and fire works in New York Harbour, Jan 13, 2008 before departing on their respective voyages. Photos courtesy John McFarlane (c).
Cunard liners QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 and QUEEN VICTORIA, in New York, Jan 13, 2008. Photos courtesy John McFarlane (c).
Cunard liners cross the North Atlantic Ocean together. These photos courtesy Steve Swanson/LinersList were taken from each ship as they battle the huge swells January 7, 2008
Cunards's QUEEN VICTORIA at Rotterdam Dec 12, 2007. Photo: Aad Hoogesteger
P & O's ARTEMIS at Rotterdam. Dec 7, 2007. Photo: Aad Hoogesteger
These glass panels were recently rescued from the shipbreakers when the HARMONY (ex STATENDAM) was scrapped at Alang. Signed by artist D Ten Hoedt/Amsterdam, they have endured fifty years of Atlantic crossings, worldwide cruising, and shipping in a container from India to California. They have been consigned to X21 Modern of San Francisco who did a fantastic job of restoring their original luster. Sadly, although they have been offered to Holland America for "cost", there is no interest in returning them to sea on a newbuild despite their historic connection and vintage beauty. For more information on these panels, please visit www.midshipcentury.com or www.x21modern.com.
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