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Topic: Pacific Princess P&O 1975-76

Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 08-05-2010 12:15 PM

Does anyone have any pictures of the Pacific Princess during her brief time in Australia / NEw Zealand in 1975-76? I have seen this rendering and this one picture of her with a "half" buff painted stack, with the P&O logo covering the Sea Witch.

Any more shots out there?

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hilifta
First Class Passenger
Member # 14861

posted 08-07-2010 06:00 AM

Yes here is a photo that I took in Auckland on the 13th December 1975 on her first visit to Auckland as the Pacific Princess.
She never had a buff funnel, it was always white.

Rgds Mike

I've written the message, I know I'm thick, but how the hell do I add the photo.

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Aussie1
First Class Passenger
Member # 25

posted 08-11-2010 02:49 AM

During her first season cruising from Australia the ship had hybrid funnel colours. I am looking at a shot of the ship a friend took at the time of her going under the Sydney harbour bridge. The fowrad part of the funnel is painted white including the princess sea witch things. The sea witch extension has the name P&O printed on. The rest of the funnel however is painted P&O buff including all the after portion of the funnel. The funnel top is painted torquiose green. The shot of her passing Oriana clearly shows what part of the funnel was painted buff. If I knew how to post pictures I would add it here.

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 08-11-2010 09:19 AM

if you guys email me the pictures at thadconstantine@hotmail.com, I will host them and then post them here as well. Will be cool to see her in a color picture of the hybrid livery.

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Noordam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3811

posted 08-11-2010 05:55 PM

This is very interesting to me. I knew the Pacific Princess spent time down in the South Pacific in the 70s, but always thought it was for Princess, on US cruises.

Why was she down there for P&O? I thought the Arcadia was there Australian ship during that period? How many seasons did she go down for? Was her scheduling similar to Pacific Princess II? Winters in Sydney and summers in Vancouver?

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Aussie1
First Class Passenger
Member # 25

posted 08-12-2010 12:56 AM

She first came down to supplement the Arcadia and Oriana during the Southern summer, our peak cruising time. She also very much came advertised as a P&O ship bearing a Princess name hence the P&O on the funnel. Somewhere I still have the brouchure for that season, she was advertised as an absolute wonder ship and in one area, cabins, was. At the time most of the cabins aboard Arcadia lacked their own bathrooms but the Arcadia was overall a far more spacious and gracious ship once you left your 4 or 6 berth cabin with a shower and toilet down the corridoor.

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 08-12-2010 10:59 AM

Thanks to Aussie1 for the image. She looks well, though I am not sure the Buff does not clash a little with the blue funnel top.

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SSTRAVELER
First Class Passenger
Member # 15170

posted 08-12-2010 11:27 AM

Why does she have fire hoses draining(?) spraying off the stern in this last picture?

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Vaccaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 465

posted 08-12-2010 01:56 PM

Perhaps for preventing some stupid pleasure boat's skippers to follow her too closely because of the danger of the propellers?

[ 08-12-2010: Message edited by: Vaccaro ]

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 08-18-2010 04:40 PM

So as Mike said, here she is in Auckland with an all white stack, the sea witch having been painted out. So between December in Auckland and February in Sydney, P&O must have painted the aft section of her stack buff colored.

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Aussie1
First Class Passenger
Member # 25

posted 08-18-2010 10:59 PM

I think the firehoses spraying may have been because this was the occasion of her first departure from Sydney altough I can't confirm this as the photos aren't dated. Pictures of her leaving Sydney taken on other occasions during that first season downunder don't have the water spraying.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 09-29-2010 10:27 AM

Here she is rescuing the QE2 when all of her boilers went out at once.

Last I heard she was partially through a refit, Quail Cruises went belly up, could not pay the bill and she is rotting away.

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 09-30-2010 04:24 AM

quote:
Originally posted by desirod7:
[...]
Last I heard she was partially through a refit, Quail Cruises went belly up, could not pay the bill and she is rotting away.

I would be very careful with such rumours.

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 09-30-2010 05:33 AM

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Desirod 7

I agree with Ernie.

It has been known for some time, by people in the travel industry, that there is a dispute about the condition of the mv Pacific when it was purchased and who should pay for the repairs.

Reports suggested that some of the lifeboat davits needed to be refitted, due to corrosion in the areas where they are mounted, besides the corrosion found in other areas of the ship.
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