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Cruise - Luxus auf großen Schiffen

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Luxus auf großen Schiffen. Ist GRÖSSER besser? by Earl of Cruise Entwurfsrendering der COSTA Neubauten, welche identisch mit denen von AIDA sind.   Am 03.Juli 2015 annoncierte die CARNIVAL CORPORATION , zu der die Kreuzfahrtgesellschaften AIDA CRUISES , COSTA CROCIERE , HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE , CARNIVAL CRUISES (2014 US$ 15,884mrd), P&O CRUISES , P&O CRUISES AUSTRALIA , PRINCESS CRUISES - das sind die mit der US TV Serie LOVE BOAT , SEABORN CRUISE LINES , CUNARD LINE und FATHOM als neueste Gesellschaft ( Brand ) gehören, dass sie einen Neubauauftrag für 4 Schiffe fest, und 2 Schiffe in Option, vergeben haben. Die mit den zuvor genannten Reedereien größte Kreuzfahrtgesellschaft der Welt (102 Schiffe), will nicht nur LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) als Treibstoff für die für COSTA und AIDA bestimmten Neubauten verwenden, sondern will auch 6.600 Passagiere (7.000 bei Doppelbelegung) auf den rund 180.000 BRZ (engl. GT, gesamter Rauminhalt eines Schiffes) großen Schiff...
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Crewing - Wir feiern und die Crew?

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Heizer beim entschlacken der Kessel - S.R.Archiv Basel Die neue schwarze Gang by Earl of Cruise Wir haben Spaß. Wir feiern das Leben. Wir freuen uns über das Schiff, die Reise zur See, den Service, das Essen, die Drinks, die Entdeckungen, die Ausflüge und die Erlebnisse. Andere Menschen, die Mitreisenden, die Bewohner in den Zielgebieten sind Bereicherungen für unser Leben. Aber was ist mit der Crew, also der Mannschaft? Diese Menschen ermöglichen uns, den Passagieren, eine unbeschwerte Zeit an Bord des Kreuzfahrtschiffes. Sie lächeln uns an und sind hilfsbereit. Als die Schiffe noch mit Kohle befeuert wurden, war der größte Teil der Crew tief unten im Bauch der Dampfer und schaufelte Kohle aus den Bunkern (Lager für Kohle) in die Feuerbuchsen der Dampfkessel. Es war heiß dort unten und stickig. Nicht selten auch extrem schlecht belüftet. Das Feuer bekam zumeist mehr Sauerstoff als die Schwarze Gang (Black Gang). Sie schufteten sich buchstäblich die Lunge aus dem Lei...
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Design - Ist das Aussehen wichtig? Von Schiffen?

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ss NORMANDIE at sea (Quelle/Source: Wikipedia) Ist das Aussehen Wichtig? by Earl of Cruise Zuerst einmal für uns, die Spezies Homo Sapiens Sapiens (der moderne Mensch) - JA! Es erleichtert einem das Leben, den Lebensweg, die Partnerwahl ... Es gibt hinlänglich und ausreichend viele und gute Untersuchungen dazu. Und warum sonst stürzen wir uns in die Fitness Studios, boomen die Casting Shows für Super Models (wobei Models eigentlich eher auf anderen Wegen entdeckt werden), die Schönheitschirurgie ... ? Schönheit liegt aber immer im Auge des Betrachters. Natalia Vodianova by Mario Testino (Quelle/Source: ohlalalamag.com) So wie wir für uns, den Menschen, ist das Aussehen auch "verkaufsfördernd"- Schönheit steigert schlicht den Marktwert! Aber was nützt der beste Marktwert, wenn man nicht die Grundregeln der Courtoisie (Höflichkeit) und Respekt anderen gegenüber besitzt ... dann ist der schönste Teller ein blödes A... Was für uns gilt, gilt auch für all...
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Review - Le BLEU DE FRANCE la France en Mer

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La France en Mer, á bord de BLEU DE FRANCE - a swan song. I have made a wonderful cruise in spring 2009 on board BLEU DE FRANCE, which started her life as HAPAG-LLOYD´s EUROPA in 1981.  by Earl of Cruise BLEU DE FRANCE in Barcelona - own photography © Earl of Cruise Deep rain clouds hang over Marseille. The radiant white city, the gateway of France to the south, shows itself grey. The roads, trotoires and buildings still are wet from the last rainshower. Our car turns into the entrance of the Gare Maritime in the new port. And there she is, the BLEU DE FRANCE. Darkblue hull, white, wet glistening superstructure. The ship seemed to be covered with a layer of laquer. We are unloading the luggage at the check-in and have the boarding, we're early. A steward leads our small group of travellers to the final formalities at the reception in the cabins. that friendly "Bon voyage" from the reception is still echoing in the ears, and the steward opens the door to our Ri...
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Ocean Liners in Movies or Films at Sea (updated Nov 2017)

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For liners and the shipping companies movies and films had been a top marketing tool Movies or Films and liners at sea, had been intriguing me since I have read about in my youth in LUXUSLINER - BILDER EINER GROSSEN ZEIT by Lee Server ( THE GOLDEN AGE OF OCEAN LINERS ). But earlier, mot only since my first crossing, I was keen watching movies with liners in it, and disapointed, which was an understatement, when I realized the films have been made in a set ashore in some movie "factory". That was after my first crossing.   by Earl of Cruise an essay in progress `Sabrina´, Humphrey Bogart in the office, while LIBERTÉ is sailing out of New York harbor - screenshot Ocean liners, especially those of the luxury category, had been the location of dramas, love stories, thrillers, suspense and catastrophies sinde film was born, or nearly. In this list, the most descriptions are taken from Wikipedia, as I guess no one can expect having seen all these films ... otherwise I w...
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HISTORY - The CUNARD - WHITE STAR Liner rms QUEEN ELIZABETH (1938-1972)

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Over years, in my early youth, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was shaping my mind for the perfect ocean liner, despite having made my first experiences with a liner onboard the HANSEATIC (1), ex EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND, ex EMPRESS OF JAPAN. When leaning at the rail of HANSEATIC entering the port, my eyes where every where and I wished to by a camera, I took all in. And when seeing the QUEEN ELIZABETH with my own eyes, the nice behaving young boy turned into a tomboy, that my grandmére was no longer able to tame ... I did draw quite a lot of looks, back then. I found, while on research, this article and thought it interesting publishing in my blog: written and published by John Sheperd at liverpoolships.org editing and comments by Earl of Cruise I ( John Shepard ) joined the CUNARD LINE in March 1962 as an Assistant Purser and sailed the QUEEN ELIZABETH throughout that year, before transferring to the Liverpool-based CARINTHIA in November, where I remained as Crew Purser for the next five...
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Cruise - PULLMANTUR ceases CROISIÈRES DE FRANCE a Conundrum or Fait accompli?

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CDF is a 100% subsidiary of PULMANTUR and was catering the French cruise market with French styled and with French cuisine offering cruises.  by Earl of Cruise HORIZON of CROISIÈRES DE FRANCE - courtesy CROISIÈRES DE FRANCE You can´t serve a French anything else than French cuisine, as good quality food is one of the most essential needs for French. When money saving is needed the last will be food in France! CDF reported an average of 100,000 cruisers on board their ships HORIZON and ZENITH. CDF was in 3rd place in the French cruise market after COSTA (CARNIVAL subsidiary) and MSC (Italian, based in Switzerland). Both are surprisingly are everything but not French. Their food is acceptable Mediterranean. And the cruises are cheap. When once, 2008, sailing on board the BLEU DE FRANCE, ex EUROPA V, 1991, now SAGA´s SAPPHIRE , I was amazed by the cusine and the really French atmosphere on board the former German vessel, who´s heritage was still to be seen. Back then I ...
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HISTORY - HAMBURG-SÜD and the CAP express liner

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The CAP express liners of HAMBURG-SÜD, CAP FINISTERRE, CAP TRAFALGAR, CAP POLONIO and CAP ARCONA, are known worldwide for their luxury, renowned service on board and grandeur. Their successors of the 60s, the CAP SAN vessels, have not been that elegant, but truly first class and were known as the "White Swans" of the Atlantic. by Earl of Cruise HAMBURG-SÜD´s SANTA TERESA in Santos - courtesy HAMBURG-SÜD Since its formation in 1871, HAMBURG-SÜDAMERIKANISCHE DAMPFSCHIFFFAHRTS-GESELLSCHAFT ( HSDG or HAMBURG-SÜD ) has evolved from a conventional freight and passenger shipping company into a global operating transport logistics organisation. Today, it ranks among the world's ten largest container shipping lines and is one of the leading providers in the North-South trades. T ill recently it was a member of the successful Oetker Group, one of the largest and best-known family enterprises in Germany. The heirs and owners sold HAMBURG-SÜD to the Danish MAERSK Group ...
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Starting rms TITANIC from cold

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rms TITANIC, 1911, Cold Starting WHITES STAR LINE Ltd., Builders: HALAND & WOLFF, Belfast by Stephen Carey, engineer, editing by Earl of Cruise rms TITANIC, 1911 © Stephen Carey   Table of Contents 1     Overview of machinery spaces 1.1        Boiler rooms 1.2        Coal bunkers 1.3        Propulsion engines 1.4        Electrical power generation 1.4.1            Main generating sets 1.4.2            Emergency generating sets 2     Lighting up the boilers 2.1        Steam line redundancy 3     Starting the generators 3.1        Auxiliary seawater pump and condenser 3.2        Starting an emergency gener...
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HISTORY - Traveling with airliner LZ 129 HINDENBURG was the most luxurious airtravel

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The real airliner LZ 129 HINDENBURG enabled the most luxurious airtravel for decades. Imagine, gliding through the air while the landscape or the sea below can be seen ... LZ 129 HINDENBURG marks the climax of airship construction. On May 6, 1937, the story of civilian airship ended in a tragedy. In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the largest flying object and has been with the similar sized LZ 130 GRAF ZEPPELIN II the most luxurious of all time. How this came about can be reconstructed logically, a series of fatal physics concatenations . The airship LZ 129 HINDENBURG marks the climax of airship construction. It was in its time the fastest and most exclusive traveling object between Europe and America. The challenges of the construction of the giant of the heaven were immense. by Earl of Cruise LZ 129 HINDENBURG, 1936, in Lakehurst - digital copy of a coloured cover photo, originally by Bill Schneider, published in Dan Grossman´s book ` ZEPPELIN HINDENBURG: AN ILLUSTRATED HI...
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HISTORY - As HAPAG Director Albert Ballin invented the modern cruise 126 years ago

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As HAPAG Director Albert Ballin invented the modern cruise 126 years ago, vacation on a ship, an invention of Albert Ballin , 33, then director of sales at HAPAG - was like a revolution when Albert Ballin advertised his first Orient Expedition as vacation. It too is the starting point of expedition and exploration cruising. Just as at the beginning of 19th century in its first decades crossing the ocean with a steamboat was thought of as similar unachievable reaching the moon. And now someone was sending a floating hotel with passengers seeking for pleasure on the dangerous seas ... What many do not know, however, is that the modern days cruise exactly started in 1891 - on a HAPAG ship, the AUGUSTA VICTORIA .   by Earl of Cruise   AUGUSTA VICTORIA auf Reede vor Piräsue - drawing courtsey by Christian Wilhelm Allers , Backschisch Erinnerungen an die Reise der AUGUSTA VVICTORIA in den Orient Sure there had been since the beginning of steam liners, especially in the Un...
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Germany and HAPAG - A Journey through History

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HAMBURG-AMERIKANISCHEPACKETFAHRT ACTIEN GESELLSCHAFT - HAPAG or HAMBURG AMERICA LINE is reflecting, as Germany, the LLOYD of Bremen, two times of rsing and two times of devasting downfall and a third rise. BORUSSIA , 1856, First Day Cover 1956 of Deutsche Bundespost - own collection Once Germany´s biggest shipping line HAPAG / HAMBURG-AMERIKANISCHE PACKETFAHRT ACTIEN GESELLSCHAFT-LLOYD, merged with it former old Hanseatic rival NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD in 1970, to now HAPAG-LLOYD, had its peaks and downs, but rose each time on its own to new hights, without any state subsidies. As German mail subsidiaries did never cover the costs for purchasing or mainting the vessels ordered for the specific German mail lines.   by Earl of Cruise In this article I used most German Wikipedia links, as they proved to be mostly of better research quality, and surprisinf to me, some English lines and liners have only German written articles, for the others, English Wiki links are to ...
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HISTORY - One of the earliest steam ship companies in the world ÖSTERREICHISCHER LLOYD was founded in 1833 - II 1855-1914

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One of the "early bird" shipping companies start sailing with steam powered vessels, was 1833 LLOYD AUSTRIACO of Austria-Hungary. With the industrial and engineering progress, LLOYD AUSTRIACO begann with paddle wheel steamships and changed to screw driven vessels, when this technology was still young and innovative. Let´s not forgett, Josef Ressel, an Austrian state serviceman, was the first to test a screw as propulsion for ships. First convoy passing the SUEZ CANAL in 1869, among this convoy had been ships of LLOYD AUSTRIACO, as well the empirial yacht of Kaiser Franz Joseph - own collection And via its board member Pasquale Revoltella LLOYD AUSTRIACO became a shareholder of the SUEZ CANAL , one of the back bones for the British Empire ...  Honi soit qui mal y pense [ɔni swa ki mal i pɑ̃s] by Earl of Cruise Steamer PANDORA - Source: Civicp Museo del Mare Trieste As early as 1857, the Semmering was no longer an obstacle for the railroad, the first...
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