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[ 12-08-2003: Message edited by: RobHolland ]
Of course Tim has a point that it could be Saga Rose.
Russ
[ 12-08-2003: Message edited by: linerguy ]
Thanks again.
Michael534
quote:Originally posted by RobHolland:Thanks. I'll let you know when I have uploaded the other 20 pics. I have some beautiful ones of her stern. I really like this ship! I am curious about her future at Cunard's as QM2 is arriving.. I think it will be a hard task for them to fill all the cabins of QM2 on a longer base. I suspect they will sell Caronia in the nearby future? What do you think?
Nice photos Rob, but personally I prefer the old gray hull of the ship as Vistafjord.Caronia will leave the Cunard fleet during Fall 2004. She should join Saga Cruises...Caronia appears in their summer 2004 cruise brochure in a brief report....claiming " new ship for Saga " ( I have obtained this brochure from my grandmother...I'm too young to cruise with Saga.... ).Now Saga Cruises is for sale so I ignore if the acquisition of the Caronia will be confirmed.
Regards, Rob
quote:Originally posted by RobHolland:That was a fast confirmation of my suspections ItalianCruiser! We'll see what happens with her.Do you have by any chance an image of her in that grey coloured hull?Regards, Rob
Never seen Vistafjord in her original configuration.I have just a Cunard 1999 brochure showing her with a very lighty hull.... I don't know if it depends from the low quality of the photo or if the Vistafjord was really painted in white before to be renamed Caronia.
[ 12-09-2003: Message edited by: Italian Cruiser ]
The present dark gray (almost black - it's called Federal Gray and has been Cunard's standard hull color for probably a century if not more) is actually her third hull color. Her first with NAL and then NAC was a sort of taupe color, somewhere between tan and gray:
As VISTAFJORD with Cunard she took on a really light gray color (maybe the same Pebble Gray as QE2's short lived light hull, which was applied at roughly the same time as Cunard bought NAC?):
If she ever gets to Saga (i.e. if their cruise business stays around) she will get a fourth hull color, a dark blue, modeled here by SAGA ROSE:
(Photos from the ever-useful Simplon Postcards)
Personally my favorite is her present classic Cunard livery, though physically the ship has been getting less attractive with every change from the original design.
[ 12-09-2003: Message edited by: cruiseny ]
quote: Now Saga Cruises is for sale so I ignore if the acquisition of the Caronia will be confirmed
Regards, Colin.
quote:Originally posted by cruiseny:[QB]As VISTAFJORD with Cunard she took on a really light gray color (maybe the same Pebble Gray as QE2's short lived light hull, which was applied at roughly the same time as Cunard bought NAC?):
QE2 had the light grey hull from August 1982 to June 1983. I believe the Cunard purchase of NAC came a year or so later, but I could be wrong.
Brian
I have now checked it out. Cunard purchased NAC in May 1983 and took delivery of Sagafjord and Vistafjord in October 1983, four months after QE2 had reverted to a dark hull.
[ 12-11-2003: Message edited by: Brian_O ]
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