洋上書店のDOULOSが、博物館に...

シリーズ書庫:客船関連その他

今日は船の話題。

2007/06に日本にも来た"洋上書店" MV DOULOS

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船ファンの間では、コスタの"Franca C"として認識されている船で、とてもとても古い船です。
（なんと1914年製。100年になろうかという船。）
SOLASという、厳しい現実を前に、ついに博物館になってしまうようです。

Pioneer Cruise Ship Old Franca C to Become Museum Ship

The Mallory Line's last surviving ship, meanwhile, is the former Medina, launched in 1914. She later became the Costa cruise ship Franca C and in 1978 the mission ship Doulos. Between 1953 and 1977, the Franca C was one of Costa's pioneer ships, having crossed the Atlantic to South America and the Caribbean, cruised in the Mediterranean and out of Port Everglades, Florida, in the 1960s, and operated one of the first fly/cruise programs out of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1966. Withdrawn from service in 2010 because of new Safety of Life at Seas (SOLAS) regulations, the Doulos is now in Singapore, where as the Doulos Phos she is being converted into a heritage maritime museum. This pioneer cruise ship, converted from a cargo ship and then migrant ship, now looks reasonably certain of reaching her 100th birthday in two years' time.