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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 06-08-2011 05:27 PM

Saw these two pictures of St. George's Harbour in the mid 1970's, and wondered what ship is docked there. I can make out one of the Ivan Franco class of Soviet Liners, but have no idea about the ship in front of her. Guessing it has to be a cruise ship, as none of the cargo ships really ever docked in St. George. Anyne have a clue? Sorry for the quality of the images..

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eroller
First Class Passenger
Member # 1649

posted 06-08-2011 06:13 PM

Looks like a Holland America ship but I can't tell for certain.

Ernie

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 06-08-2011 06:27 PM

To me it sort of looks like the Oriental Esmeralda or Oriental Carnival of the Orient OVerseas Lines. I know they did a around the world service in the mid seventies, but have no clue if they would have stopped in Bermuda

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rd77
First Class Passenger
Member # 2117

posted 06-09-2011 04:04 AM

Thad, ask Stephen Card, he would know!

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Sutho
First Class Passenger
Member # 6234

posted 06-09-2011 04:35 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Thad:
Saw these two pictures of St. George's Harbour in the mid 1970's, and wondered what ship is docked there. I can make out one of the Ivan Franco class of Soviet Liners, but have no idea about the ship in front of her. Guessing it has to be a cruise ship, as none of the cargo ships really ever docked in St. George. Anyne have a clue? Sorry for the quality of the images..

If they are your photos and I am suspecting scanned from a photo there is a way of improving them.

If you still have the negatives the technology exists in this day and age to have a professional lab scan the negative and give you a high quality digital image.

I have had some of my old negatives scanned professionally and some of the images are just as good as digital with a resolution of 1800pixesl wide.

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 06-09-2011 12:45 PM

Over on Liners List, the consensus answer appears to be the DDR Combi-Liner JG Fichte, along with the USSR Liner Alexander Pushkin.

Interesting to see two communist ships docked in St. George's Harbour.

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Brian_O
First Class Passenger
Member # 3910

posted 06-09-2011 03:11 PM

The Ivan Franco class liner is probably the Alexandr Pushkin on a cruise out of Montreal. But it could also be the Mikhail Lermontov on a cruise out of New York. Both ships offered such cruises in addition to their transatlantic service.

I doubt that it's one of the other Ivan Franko Class ships because they were rarely seen on this side of the Atlantic.

Brian

[ 06-09-2011: Message edited by: Brian_O ]

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