This 241-meter cruise ship was built in 1990 as “Crystal Harmony” by the
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard in Nagasaki, Japan. During her maiden voyage, the ship experienced a fire and drifted afloat for three days.
In 2006 the ship passed from
Crystal Cruises to the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha and underwent some renovations. She re-entered service as “
Asuka II”.
External links:
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries -
MS Asuka II -
Crystal Cruises -
Nippon Yusen (Wikipedia)
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22 comments:
Gosh! On her maiden voyage. What was THAT all about?
That is huge, VP!
I can never get over how big those ships are. I would imagine it must be scary for the passengers to have a fire aboard!
How strange!
They did a nice job fixing it up.
They look like something that would be fun to build out of Legos!
Janis
GDP
A floating city, beautiful images, VP !
I like the way you have photographed her and put the images together.
She is a beauty.
Not a very auspicious beginning for the ship.
But great photos.
It's good the ship was renamed so that most people would forget about the fire.
Very nice photos. It's embarrassing when your maiden cruise doesn't go so well! I've never been aboard one of these monsters, so I guess that will have to go on my bucket list, too!
Looks wonderful! So big.
Love a good cruise to warm destinations.
She's a beauty VP but I must admit I find the thought of cruising on these huge vessels a wee bit scary.. too many people in one place :)
oh wow, how scary!
Wow, a fire at sea is very serious. The cruise we went on wouldn't let you have a coffee pot or even a night light for fear of fire.
How crazy that she had a fire on her maiden voyage. She seems to have recovered well though!
In the last shot it really does look like a building!
She looks fine now!
That is a huge ship!
More and more of these come to Lisbon and vomit thousands of tourists who spend a couple of hours at souvenirs shops before going back to their monster. They usually say they have visited Lisbon... LOL!
HUGE!!
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