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 Astoria
is small cruise ship, property and operated by Transocean Tours.
The ship has gross tonnage of 18,591 gross tons. The ship is not
large and also not modern. The vessel Astoria is part of those cruise
ships, which were built in 20th century mostly for offering cheap
cruises. Astoria was built in 1980 in Germany in the ship-yard of
Howaltswerke Deutsche Werft, Kiel. The ship Astoria was built for
the new company Hadag Cruise Line, which quickly decided that the
cruise ships are not so profitable and stopped its work. The ship
Astoria was sold to Safmarine, newly formed South African company
and ship started operating between South Africa and Europe on regular
routes. Later the vessel changed owners much time, to reach the
situation from nowadays to be part from the fleet of Transocean
Tours. The ship Astoria has length of 164.30 meters (or about 539.2
feet) and beam of 22.60 meters (or about 74.1 feet). The cruise
ship has normal capacity of 512 passengers, while the maximum capacity
is 602 passengers. These guests will be served by 220 crew members,
who are offering some of the highest rated service. The cruise ship
has four main engines Sulzer- Wartsila
with total power of 15,400 kW. The service speed of the vessel is
20.4 knots, which is quite high speed for such old vessel, which
is Astoria.
The
history of the vessel is quite long, but the high quality materials
used for building of this luxury cruise ship give her life of more
than 40 years. The ship is now operating in Europe and sailing in
some of the most beautiful parts of the old continent. The passengers
of Astoria are visiting fiords of Norway, Gibraltar, United Kingdom
or Italy. The ship is offering great luxury and very nice vacation
for the guests on board. The ship has 7 passengers decks and more
than 25 percents from cabins have own balconies, while more than
65 percents have sea-view. Really the cabins are offering everything,
which passengers may want from one hotel, and even more. The cruise
ship offers large number of attractions – restaurants, bars,
barbeques, a pool and of course a large number of shops. Except
the good attractions on board, the passengers can visit some of
the most beautiful places of the world. The cruise ship Astoria
is really amazing place, where you can get nice moments, visit good
places and have the most exciting vacation, in spite of the low
class cruise.
date: 16th September, 2009 |
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