Mona Lisa sailing off to the scrapyard

[Peter Blanche]

Just been looking on marinetraffic.com at shipping passing through the English Channel and noticed the Mona Lisa passing Eastbourne bound for Piraeus. Guess she must have been sold for scrap. Another old passenger ship falls foul of the new SOLAS regs I guess. Won't be any of them left soon.

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Peterb
Yes indeed a great pity if she is going to the old Scrapheap.
But then so many of the good oldies have been going there for ages now,and i wonder just why sometimes,as there are so amny other very large Passenger "Hotels" Ships being made that must cost a lot more to run!
But that said i suppose thats the signs of the times!
Poor old beggars!! I feel so sad!!!
Cheers

A lovely looking Ship too!

I am sure this was also the Sea Princess for some time,thats the one my late Uncle Dusty was on during the late 1970's and into the early 1980's!
Think she sailed with that name till late 1990's! ?
Cheers
Originally Kungsholm!
Also a while as Victoria and Oceanic 11

[Doc Vernon]

This is the Start of the Kungsholm later the Mona Lisa!
Cheers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6pzE...layer_embedded


http://www.salship.se/news.asp

I wonder indeed if she is going to the Scrapheap ??????

[Colin Hawken]

I saw her in Sydney in January 2008. I've checked and she was the P&O Liner Sea Princess. Many years ago she was in Southampton and Princess Anne visited her as Patron of the British Sailors Society. I was having a drink in a Bar I used to frequent and the 2nd Purser came in and his words were exactly as follows."All this b****y fuss about a Princess,we've got fifty Queens in the Crew." I promise you this story is true.

[happy daze john in oz]

Well mate I reckon he could not count if all he could find was 50 on a P&O liner. Could have been worse though, maybe a Castle liner??????

[Glenn Baker]

Its certainly quite sad to see the end of Life on the sea for these Great looking well designed Passenger ships that have been replaced by very Ugly Huge Floating Blocks of Flats . Ive even heard these new Cruise liners cannot sail in Heavy Winter sea,s as they dont have Deep Draft Engine room so they havent got the Depth to withstand Rough weather. I remember her as the Kungsholm when she regularly called at Wellington New Zealand on her World Cruises, i was on Wellington Pilot Staff then a lot of years ago. Glenn Baker

[Colin Hawken]

Well mate I reckon he could not count if all he could find was 50 on a P&O liner. Could have been worse though, maybe a Castle liner??????

: There were others in the Club that day who said the same thing.

[Peter Blanche]

Just checked on http://www.marinetraffic.com and the Mona Lisa is now anchored off Piraeus.