Oldest Cruise Ship Afloat

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Oldest cruise ship afloat. Cruiselinerdublin Dublin Port Company today cruised into the history books with the arrival of the 333m long MSC Splendida cruise liner the longest ship to ever call at Dublin Port. I also saw a news release about the new Queen Mary II being built. The Astoria and the Funchal now the oldest active cruiseships afloat were originally built as ocean liners designed to carry passengers on point-to-point voyages across the Atlantic in the case of the Astoria and to the Azores in the case of the Funchal.

The Pesse canoe is the worlds oldest known ship dating. Sea Cloud 1931 Sea Cloud was commissioned. Further the yacht was known as Angelita Patria and served as a presidential yacht and a school ship.

The oldest ship on this list the Astoria has been around since 1948 sailing for 72 years. Ad Get the latest cruise offers. She is one of 83 cruise calls confirmed for Dublin Port this year which will see a total of 140000 passengers arriving to sample the sights of Dublin.

The Star of India was launched in 1863 and is the oldest ship in the world that still maintains a regular sailing schedule. The other ship ended up sinking. I think huge ships are really cool.

Now she offers sailings in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. What is the largest ship afloat today. MV Astoria was built in 1948 as a transatlantic liner MS Stockholm for Swedish American Line and rebuilt as a cruise ship in 1993.

This is the list of five oldest cruise ships still sailing. Its had a long history one that includes a collision with another ship that the Astoria came away from largely unscathed at least comparatively. Royal Caribbean International sweeps this category with their Oasis-class cruise ships the Allure of the Seas Oasis of the Seas and upcoming Harmony of the Seas.