Cruise Ship Odyssey

Mona Lisa (1966 – 2015) Holiday Kreuzfahrten

Kungsholm (4) was built by John Brown, Clydebank in 1966 for owners Swedish America Line. After the demise of liner service to America she was sold to Flagship Cruises in 1975, she was not renamed. In 1979 P&O acquired her to replace the aging Arcadia. She was  rebuilt in Bremen, lost one of her funnels in the process. Many thought it ruined her classic liner appearance. Renamed Sea Princess she was initially operated by P&O Cruises but was  later transferred to the US market to P&O subsidiary Princess Cruises. She then returned to P&O and was renamed Victoria. P&O announced in February 2001 that she would be withdrawn. Victoria was sold to Leonardo Shipping, who chartered her to Holiday Kreuzfahrten as Mona Lisa. Holiday Kreuzfahrten went bankrupt in 2006 and she was used as an accommodation ship for the Asian Games in Doha. Leonardo then chartered her for two 8-month periods in 2007/2008 to The Scholar Ship for use as a floating student ship. In between she spent the summer of 2007 sailing for Pullmantur Cruises being renamed Oceanic II. For the remainder of the 2008 season she was chartered to German operator Lord Nelson Seereisen, in 2009 and 2010 she made cultural world cruises for the Japanese Peace Boat Organisation before returning to Lord Nelson until 2010 reverting to her former name of Mona Lisa. Because it would be too costly to upgrade her for the new 2010 SOLAS safety rules she was taken out of service and sold in 210 to DSME-Oman for use as a the floating hotel Veronica in Oman until 2013. After having been laid up for two years she was scrapped in 2015.

67 photographs (2003 weekend cruise from Kiel to Hamburg)

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