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The company switched in the early 1970s (possibly 1971 - not sure the exact year) to the dark blue hulls that they still have today.
So if you're looking at a ship that entered service with HAL in the 1950s or later, and it looks black, it's not, it's just the very dark blue that they have been using for the past 30 years or so.
The color is very dark, and in many lighting conditions it appears black... In some photographs I have seen it looks like a very bright blue - a well-used HAL advertising photo of NOORDAM in the Caribbean comes to mind - but I have a feeling those were taken with a filter as in person, you can tell it is blue, but sometimes you might have to look twice as it is really, really dark.
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quote:Originally posted by Ðraikar:Dose anyone use real black anymore ?
Hmm... Cunard uses Federal Gray, which is very, very, very dark gray - I find it absolutely indistinguisable from black. It's the same color they've used since who knows when... For all I know BRITANNIA could have been painted with it .
QE2 was dark blue from 1994-1999 though. I didn't like it and am glad that they have returned to the "normal" hull color.
I can't think of anyone else who uses black any longer (for passenger ships). Apart from QE2, the last black hulls were probably FRANCE, STEFAN BATORY, and maybe some Soviet ships.
quote: Origanally Posted by cruiseny:I can't think of anyone else who uses black any longer (for passenger ships). Apart from QE2, the last black hulls were probably FRANCE, STEFAN BATORY, and maybe some Soviet ships.
Doesn't Disney Cruise Lines use black hulls???????
quote:Originally posted by Commodore:Doesn't Disney Cruise Lines use black hulls???????
I'm not sure (believe it or not I've never seen one in person) but you may well be right. I would think, from photos I've seen, that they do.
quote:Originally posted by Keitaro:Does the R-ships have a dark blue or black?
Dark blue.
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