Tuesday, July 14, 2009

ROYAL ODYSSEY in Funchal

Another classic ship portrait by Vitor Rodrigues Faria with the Greek cruise steamer ROYAL ODYSSEY leaving Funchal, Madeira, on 8 December 1985, while doing her transatlantic positioning voyage westbound.
Copyright photograph from the Luís Miguel Correia collection

Sunday, July 12, 2009

FEDOR SHALYAPIN in Madeira


Black Sea Shipping Company of Odessa operated the largest passenger liners and cruise ships under the flag of the URSS. In this Vitor Rodrigues Faria photograph the FEDOR SHALYAPIN has just arrived on 31 December 1985. A fomer Cunarder, she was the IVERNIA of 1955 renamed FRANCONIA in 1962. Photograph from the Luís Miguel Correia collection

Saturday, July 11, 2009

DANAE in Funchal August 1985


Cruise ship DANAE arriving in Funchal on 31 August 1985 on a Summer cruise. Photograph by Vitor Rodrigues Faria. Luís Miguel Correia collection