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[ 10-10-2010: Message edited by: joe at travelpage ]
I have a very good friend who now lives in Belgian and her late husband was one of the Officers on board. Her son who was only 5 at the time said he remembers it well. He now is an Officer on board a HAL ship - followed in his Father's foosteps & is an excellent Officer.
http://explorenorth.com/library/ships/prinsendam-1980.html
http://www.alaska.net/~jcassidy/pop-mech.htm
She actually finally sank on 10/11/80.
I am heading to Athens today to join Prinsendam for the voyage back to Fort Lauderdale. A much needed and past due Holiday.
quote:Originally posted by DAMBROSI2:I just found in my collection of brochures a 1981 mint condition brochure of her. If she were still around, she would have ended up with Louis or Thompson?? I'm thinking of putting this up for bids on Ebay.
Just sent you an e-mail as I may know someone who would buy it from you.Diane
quote:Originally posted by HALover:Today, 30 years ago...[ 10-10-2010: Message edited by: joe at travelpage ]
Wow. Never saw pics of her going under before. She's listing heavily here.
Deborah I have the same brochure it's lovely and a testimony that she was special within the 1970's HAL fleet. She was the last Dutch cruise ship build fore the Holland America Line (at the same time the Cunard twins where also under construction in the Netherlands) And the first purpose build cruise ship fore HAL. The Nieuw Amsterdam/Noordam twins of 1983/84 where based on here design. Sadly the Merwede yard lost the order after the Dutch government refused a loan to build them.
Greetings Ben.
[ 11-06-2010: Message edited by: Maasdam ]
quote:Originally posted by Thad:I have a great little 1:1250 scale model of the Prinsendam I, shown here with the Nieuw Amsterdam (1983), which displays their design similarities.
Put the deck plans side by side and you will see that the N ships were just enlarged versions of the Prinsendam. They had almost identical lay out of their lounge decks.
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