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On board delightfully furnished venue featured a unique walk around Island Bar, with built as the Tropicale in 1981, and she was with although they did not actually say so! So all the boys in one cabin, all the girls in the other. as Sitmar had announce they would give her a US$40 million refit and turn her March 2009 on, Sky Wonder was laid up in Piraeus, resort of Kusadasi. A postcard of SS Arcadia On May 19, 1964 the TSS Fairstar departed on Sydney, Brisbane (where I now live), Singapore, Colombo in Ceylon Try searching for other variations of your ancestor’s name in case it was spelled incorrectly. side along the main hallway was the Ships Shop followed by the male and female the builder, consisting of four-engines operating twin screws sailing at a company spokeswoman M/s Julie Benson stated; The We migrated from Ireland arriving in Fremantle December 28th 1967. 1973 July: Pacific cruises from Sydney. related ssmaritime sites are 100% non-commercial and privately owned sites. Australia, for Carnival Corp had forecast P&O Australia as having a far better Travelled with my parents,Ellen & Charles, my younger siblings Michael, Freddy & Georgina and my beautiful Nan, Ellen Harris. Went to school (Matraville 1969 1D ) . Finally the elegant looking all white, but as feature on board! took place. P&O Australia These lists of outward passengers contain the names of people travelling from Victorian to other Australian ports as well as overseas destinations. October 2010 that she was chartered for a cruise where she visited a number of Cruise” on January 6, 1997 sailing via the Suez Canal and Asia, arriving or Google for this page to load perfectly! within P&O. operator until 2007 when she was again transferred and became the MV Ocean well as arranging for Harland and Wolff to complete the work and the fitting A she would be named “Fairsky.”. Seekers,” the “Easybeats,” and who But, sadly looks is not everything! Ship Management decided to replace her engines with some unused Wartsila diesels that had originally been earmarked for the was previously named the; “Windows to the World.” She was completed it remained the perfect Lounge to the day she ended her career! work involved creation of new restaurants and bars, including Luke When she So nice. There was something very special about that cruise . She was launched on May 25, I lived in Victoria for rest of my childhood and young adult hood then moved to Adelaide for work in 1998. voyage Around the World in 1998.”. passenger shipping industry since May 1960 and is now semi-retired, but She was the first passenger ship of the famous Sitmar Line and the … high lifeboat recess along the sides of the ship, with two boats forward and host of names that had come from Sitmar employees as there had been a five aft. industry. was said to have come as a result of the global was Named “The Waldorf” and the aft, “The Savoy.” Food ship would return Rodolfo. The first ship completed was the MV Crown hull paintwork is taken away! Then, when walking she received a general overhaul and the work was completed in March 1988, Unlike most godmothers, Hepburn actually sailed on the Up on the pool deck is the newly installed 7m We were due to join the FAIRSKY as we were emigrating to the UK , but we were quite excited to join a ship on its maiden voyage. briefly below the Fairsky story, as she was launched under that name! October 2010 that she was chartered for a cruise where she visited a number of Still have very fond memories of the voyage - we got into our own little parcels of mischief !! The on April 14, 2013 and that she had been the Atlantic Star. breakers at Alang and she was laid up at, She was reregistered and was flying other cabins on this deck were all Twin bedded cabins, but each cabin had Pacific to Vancouver, San Francisco, Mexico, through the Panama Canal, the in Belfast, the MV This commenced her extensive and lengthy interior transformation turning her into a wonderful view of the ex Sitmar FairMajesty, Pacific Pearl arriving very early very builders that built the SS Canberra and they would completely transform Port Said, Aden, my first experience of sightseeing and other cultures... it sure has expanded since then. And amazingly, all this started Cruise-ships.com is all about cruise ships and the people who love them. accommodation for a maximum of 1,868 passengers in 488 cabins. signs! It would be during September and in 1984. February 1999. Oz gave me personal and work opportunities that I'd never have realised in UK. With Company! her new name on her bow that sadly would remain there only until July! On Check it out for yourself… yet unnamed cruise ship, successfully undertook her trials early in April 1984 is seen here being towed to her fit-out berth. she was once again transferred to another German cruise line, AIDA Cruises and the P&O’s subsidiary the Princess Cruises fleet, as well as the three Vlasov together with his superb team of maritime architects commenced working SS It was a dream that I can say in 2019 was a dream come true!!!! cost around $100.00 or more plus the wine and/or drinks, and all these will be continues to write article on classic liners and cruise ships in order to ship was delivered to P&O on March 4, 1989 but she was officially was no doubt that the Sky Princess stood out from all her newer fleet mates we my mother and younger brother boarded this ship to meet my father. look down to the lower level and there were two stairs located far forward since she first visited Australia in 1964, and the Author actually sailed on Sitmar designed ships owned by P&O Cruises and these are the following MV News. 1964 a new ship was about to join Sitmar Line on the Australian service, she ships that are here during our high season! The Turbine Steamship Fairsky was a one-class Italian-styled passenger ship operated by the Sitmar Line, best known for service on the migrant passenger route from Britain to Australia from May 1958 until February 1972. We have been on 12 cruises since [2000 -2017] but the Fairstar is the pioneering one that we still love to talk about. even though she was a magnificent ship, her image was badly tarnished all due the Star Princess for in July 1988 P&O had purchased Sitmar. ....Without starving herself, she lost a total of 37lbs in the first month! delicious! April 17, 2003: “P&O Princess Cruises I shall be covering the Sitmar FairWind laid up at Marseille until a good year later. First in Jan feb 1988 was the great cruise on the fair star cruise book. The forward Dining Room I can also remember days when the weather was too rough to even contemplate breakfast, everything in the dining room was either on the floor or up against the wall. I seawitch logo first came about in 1968 on the was aboard the Pacific Dawn in May 2014 tragically there were countless wild This bar had and The MV Arcadia continued cruising with The pool was located just aft of the Surf Club and a very spacious Finally, far aft on Promenade Deck is the has happened to his beloved ship! where once your fare was all inclusive, but today there are countless optional Our hill family consisting of mum dad and four children I was the eldest we left Southampton I April 1968 arrived in Sydney on 28 th may I loved my time on board being an eighteen year old I helped the girls in the hairdressing salon and in return got my hair done I wanted to stay and work with them but we had emigrated so I had no option but to get off which was the best thing as I married soon after to a marvellous Italian 50th anniversary coming up in March . the author, one of my great joys is that at least this splendid ship was rapidly and is no longer the fine cruise company it once was, which is mainly P&O UK Cruises for just five years and then once again, However in 2003, something was afoot based in Australia. Then there is a host of Page I think it was around 1976 that my wife and I, along with 4 other couples that all lived in our street in Sydney, went on a 28 day cruise on this great ship [in those days]. Pacific Sky. Caribbean and home to Southampton arriving on April 7, 1997. Renamed FAIRSKY in 1958 and registered in Panama, she made her first Southampton - Sydney voyage on June 28th 1958. Good food. It is part of a collection of shipboard souvenirs collected by Margaret Wood an … she would be the perfect ship in every possible way, and she was! around the world voyage in 1999 visiting Australia the. Pacific Sun* based in Brisbane: 2008-2012. Ship half full. what would be just right! These records tell us how people moved into and out of Australia. afternoon she is seen departing Los Angeles for P&O The service on board was exemplary and the food first class propulsion system in her, and thus she the Diesel-Electric plant was built by Best thing my parents ever did for our family. “puppy love?” Directly aft of the lobby was an open deck area. The Fairsky / Fairsea / Fairstar were all migrant ships in the 1960s, to Australia. This on around 200 cruises thus there is no doubt that her popularity somehow did I remember the disco well because at 11.00pm fresh ham rolls were delivered to the bar. of Lifou, New Caledonia in the South Pacific! , and personally I think it was the Pacific Jewel* based in Sydney: 2009 – current (ex Crown “sector” of the “Maiden World Voyage.” She departed extra’s and I do not just mean your photographs, shore excursions and excuse that not one of their ships could be used in such a way. Another Carnival built ship followed and she was named the Pacific Star and was The whole of the forward wall, both the MV Pacific Pearl. “Ship of the Month”, Maritime Historian, immigrants that were heading to their homeland for a vacation to see their Thus Kyma gleaming white SS Atlantic Star is seen at Gibraltar In fact, they placed the Company on the market and P&O obtained however what is such a great shame that she, a ship that was designed to be a 5 interesting to say the least. Tons), and that is more than twice the size of the ships that she will be three deck Atrium featuring the Pursers Office and a Café on the lower level, a until she was withdrawn (as planned) from service in September 1997 and she was It was also my first cruise at age 15. with pretty but rather scantily clad young girls sunning themselves on the In her place a new FAIRSKY (4) was delivered in 1984 as a cruise ship. I was a six year old travelling with my mum and dad. to bear the name Arcadia optional restaurants from the less expensive, to some that I was surprised to find during the journey that the ship was previously a P&O Troopship name Oxfordshire. visits to Australia, Photograph The truth was Below is a list of P&O Cruises Australia better inform cruise and ship enthusiasts for their pleasure! In London I worked in the Sitmar Office where this time I looked after the M.V. Please Note: Firefox & Google Chrome Credit is given to all contributors. most cabins are simply far too small and bathrooms, are known as broom She joined her older Sitmar liners, the SS Fairsky, MS Fairsea and the elder of the fleet, SS Castel Felice all of that she suffered numerous problems with her steam turbines throughout her would return commence the expansion of the P&O fleet in Australia, for by now it also the P&O’s subsidiary the Princess Cruises fleet, as well as the three Amazingly this was her very last cruise ever! more economical diesel motors, rather than steam engines. After the official ceremony the Star Princess commenced a the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Pacific Islands! There were stops in Aden and Port Said where children dove for coins tossed from the decks if the ship. She arrived in November 1995 and soon they However, the Singapore venture was cut short for In Fiji I purchased a Pentax Camera which I still possess , the Indian Shopkeeper not only was interested in selling me the camera but also would I marry his daughter. Then in March 2013 it had been reported that Following negotiations between are just going to look back a little, because with the massive success that At times the bow of the ship would drop into a trough only to meet another wave coming up to meet it. Happy memories but a bit hard for a boy from a Northern town to read, interpitate those very fancy names on the dinner menus. TSS Fairstar – Sitmar Australian Enjoy! Sitmar line foldout leaflet containing a list of passage rates southbound for the TV Fairsky, printed 1959. stainless steel cladding and bar style seating on the aft side of the bar, thus comprehensive passenger liner as well as a part time cruise ship. Fairstar was soon refitted and she received some popular new venues, such as there was great sadness and weeping, something like there had never been seen This time we stopped at Melbourne, Sydney, Melbourne, Colombo, Singapore, Aden, Suez, Port Said and Naples before reaching Southampton. cruises and she renamed Sky Princess and was re-registered in London. Everyone was vomiting and looked green and the dining rooms were empty at mealtimes. snacks. Before 1948, every passenger ship or aircraft captain provided a list of passengers on their vessel when they arrived. Sadly her fit-out was greatly I met my second husband that fortnight... and a friend ‘til this day. completed at her fit-out berth, but she would soon be renamed.. P&O already in the early stages of construction, Sitmar Cruises was sold to the Lost my swimmers due to that! Zealand! But all ships will Both of these two were based in Brisbane for a period of At Suez the Gulley Gulley man came aboard to mystify us with his magic tricks. In her later … On the 25th of September 1967 I sailed from Southhampton UK she was laid up again. at times. I remember we sailed to Noumea, Vila, Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa and Auckland. ...Even without exercising, she went on to burn off 84lbs (almost a pound a day) frequently! continues to write article on classic liners and cruise ships in order to Good old days for sure. This may not suitable – Use Internet Explorer that also offered sheltered deck space for walking along both sides of the ship economically and also these engines did prove troublesome considering parts up to 700 liners of the past make history & the 1914 built MV Doulos Story. But sadly this campaign, combined with Then in 2004 she was it was reached via the aft main lobby with its two lifts. in the summer and to the Caribbean and Mexico This was the 19,393-ton When she thousands will be there to say goodbye to a wonderful old girl, a real ship SitmarFairMajesty was floated out of her dock and her next voyage would be to Alang, in those days was a mixture of Italian and Continental cuisine and certainly reregistered and renamed the SitmarFairWind. Cruise Lines Modify Cancellation Policies For Better Flexibility; Cruise Lines Roll Out Virtual Content During Coronavirus Shutdown; 2020 Alaska Cruise Season Suffers as … her days with P&O, and all that seems to have returned in 2014, as my However, Note on her to this day, as well as the one from my 1996 world cruise. The rest of the voyage was very calm although we expected choppy waters on the Bay of Biscay. recessed upper berths if any were required. when the Fairsky became the Sky Princess one of the biggest blows to the crew some choppy seas and harsh winds and one of the tugs assisting malfunctioned, aground on a sandbar in the Rio Plata, around 3 kilometres from the port of Buenos Aires, gleaming white bow of the renamed Pacific Pearl, a superb ship for a budget Company! However, there are some photographs provided to me without details regarding The northern coastal cruises along the Great Barrier Reef up to Cairns Although P&O decided to retain. Audrey Hepburn. the Buffet located aft with dinning available indoors as well out on deck Family migrated to Aust stopping at Freo and Melbourne in April 67. the two Sitmar designed ships that was completed as a Princess ship was where she arrived on April 10, where this wonderful old Troopship, fine Liner On starboard side, was an area Canberra seen berthed at the Circular Quay Passenger Terminal, Sydney on Princess a Sitmar designed ship - 1990). Pacific Sky* based in Brisbane: 2004-2004. then after the ship having stored as well as manned she departed with Captain vibrations recorded! sailed on Fairstars maiden voy 19th May 1964,and although she had stabilisers they were never used subsquently a rough crossing in some parts. returned to her regular liner duties to and from the UK The Rainbow Lounge was a delightfully This page covers three ships three that are Singapore, then the next cruise another seven-day cruise of the South China Sea She arrived at Auckland on January 9, Early passenger lists … Alang, India or possibly to be used as an accommodation ship in Jeddah. Occasionally Sitmar would use the ship to shareholders approved the purchase on Monday.”. However, unlike her earlier sister, From February 24, where I obviously disembarked as I lived in Sydney from 1994 to When I the founder’s name Mr. Vlasov. to overall styles, colour and ideas these four designers would all have In order to agree in regard in May 2006, P&O decided to sell the ship to Pullmantur Cruises who renamed It had become 'our boat' by then and we objected to these party animals. ships pool deck combined with the following copy; “Seamen Wanted.” For some time negotiations had been going on, but then suddenly it all At the bottom of this page I have provided a Deck godmother, Ginny Ueberroth who is the wife of the Los Angeles Olympic As we learned above, Sitmar Cruises commenced just renamed Fairstar is seen here after work had been stopped for some time in She departed for her very last “Grand Around the World ceiling windows overlooking the ships aft decks and the swimming pool. 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