Cruise Ships 2011, The Year In Review: Costa Croiceire - Maritime Matters


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Cruise Ships 2011, The Year In Review: Costa Croiceire
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Essentially a “Carnival Conquest Class” ship, it can carry 3016 passengers based on double occupancy, or up to 3800 maximum. The new ship was christened in Trieste on July 2nd by Italian actress Margareth Made in a ceremony that was open to the public, ...

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A Short History Of The COSTA CONCORDIA - Maritime Matters


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A Short History Of The COSTA CONCORDIA
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The newer Costa ships are based on a common platform as vessels in parent company Carnival Cruise Line's fleet. The same basic design for the COSTA CONCORDIA, originated with the CARNIVAL CONQUEST class of ships beginning in 2002.

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Great outdoors beckons thrillseekers - The West Australian


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Great outdoors beckons thrillseekers
The West Australian
Fishing enthusiasts will be treated to a full day on the ocean aboard the spacious 55ft conquest Blue Lightning where all rods, bait and tackle are provided. Port Bouvard Charters has been fishing the region for nine years and charter participants ...

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Largest Passenger Ship Lost - Maritime Matters


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Largest Passenger Ship Lost
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A comment about lifeboats from a reader William, who says, “The CONCORDIA follows a modified design plan to Carnival's Conquest class of which I am a former ships staff officer. (I served on board and was on the newbuild of the CONQUEST, itself, ...

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New Orleans cruise traffic now higher than pre-Katrina levels - Examiner.com

New Orleans cruise traffic now higher than pre-Katrina levels
Examiner.com
With Carnival bringing in two ships, and Royal Caribbean one, more than one million passengers may sail from NOLA in 2012, 250000 more than before Katrina. Carnival currently has the Elation (2052 passengers) and the Conquest (2974 passengers) sailing ...

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Tilting at sea - phillyBurbs.com (blog)

Tilting at sea
phillyBurbs.com (blog)
8, and she, her cousin Anna Marie McKenna, and about 3000 other passengers and crew were happily aboard the Carnival Liberty, a gleaming, thousand-foot Conquest-class liner. The Liberty, built in 2005, was taking an eight-day winter sojourn to the ...

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Cruise ships revive New Orleans' port - Vancouver Sun

Cruise ships revive New Orleans' port
Vancouver Sun
The return late last year of three major ships - the 2052-passenger Elation and 2974-passenger Conquest, both from Carnival Cruise Lines, and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's 3114-passenger Voyager of the Seas - is driving up cruise business even beyond ...

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