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Cruises - REGENT SEVEN SEAS CRUISES - SEVEN SEAS EXPLORER the most luxurious cruise vessel?

Is this , the SEVEN SEAS EXPLORER, really the most luxurious cruise ship in the world?  by Earl of Cruise  Inside the US $450 ,000,000.00 vessel - Versace crockery, Murano glass fittings and an 18-hole putting green ... oh and it is All-Inclusive. And it is the first new ship for the cruise line in over a decade. It does look luxurious, yes, somehow. Billed as the most luxurious cruise ship ever built, the Seven Seas Explorer will be christened by Princess Charlene of Monaco Italy’s Fincantieri Sestri Ponente yard has officially handed over the vessel June 30th. Today July 13th was the christening which was done by SEVEN SEAS EXPLORER godmother Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene de Monaco. US $ 450mio, 750pax, 650 crew, ~55,000 GT, 223 m length, 32 m beam, 48 m air draft, 7 m draught, 23,5 kts,   750 guests, 650 crew (pax crew ratio 0,86) ... and some of them do the technical and nautical stuff ... so we may end at 550 ... ...

HISTORY - FRENCH LINE - COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE, a review - Part I

The COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE, known as FRENCH LINE in the English speaking world, or TRANSAT or CGT, had its origins in the victorious end of the Crimean War. S upported by the success and a wave of national consciousness emperor Napoléon III . wanted strengthening the French primacy on the oceans. by Earl of Cruise Houseflag of COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE S.A. - soure: ebay "On   limited space, we put our country on display", a crewmember declared once.  And no other line put in more of its national personality into its product than COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE . The company´s headquarter was situated in Paris, while the homeport of the vessels had been Le Havre . The French navy was gone face since their humiliating defeat by the British under Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805. Foreign lines served the most prestigious and permanent growing route on the Atlantic and delivered French Mail into the risi...

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