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~SHIPS~DORSET~ Images of the Month for July 2024 ~ 1of2 ~ ~ Queen Mary 2 & Renaissance - at Portland - June 2024
The 1st June was an unexpectedly busy day at Portland Port UK. Scheduled cruise call Renaissance arrived from ClydePort, Greenock at 07.00 to berth at the enticingly named Outer Coaling Pier with cable ship CS Sovereign occupying her customary berth on the Inner Coaling Pier. It wasn’t long before one of Portland’s regular bunker tankers, Monjasa Provider, positioned herself alongside Renaissance for refuelling. By 08.00 Cunard’s 2004 built flagship Queen Mary 2 was berthing at Portland's Deep Water Berth following a short notice diversion from her planned Le Havre call due to threats of industrial action in France. Portland Port UK set up their usual free shuttles to Weymouth where the Wessex Folk Festival was underway. The scene was captured by Ships Dorset contributor Paul Dallaway and his second image provides a great closeup of Renaissance allowing us to see how well CFC have refurbished this 1993 built cruise ship.
~SHIPS~DORSET~ Images of the Month for July 2024 ~ 2of2 ~ ~ Renaissance - at Portland - June 2024
Renaissance is the first ship to be owned by French cruise operator Compagnie Française de Croisières (CFC) who purchased her soon after the company was established in 2022. The ship had been built by, and served with, Holland America Line since 1993 as Maasdam until being withdrawn from service in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. It was sold to Greek operator Seajets the same year and remained in lay-up until September 2022 when CFC purchased the cruise ship and sent it to Damen Shipyards in Brest for refit.
Key Dimensions for Renaissance … Gross Tonnage = 55,575 … Length = 220m … Beam = 31m … Service speed = 14 knots / Maximum Speed = 22 knots … Capacity for 1,100 passengers in 629 cabins … Crew = 580 ... in service with HAL 1993 / in service with CFC since 2023.
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