Cruise ship FUNCHAL of 1961

FUNCHAL refitting in Lisbon

2011-03-22T03:29:00.000-07:00

FUNCHAL has been undergoing a very extensive refit in Lisbon in order to comply with SOLAS 2010 and to improve her passenger facilities as well as crew quarters and general technical survey and facelift.

Refit work is going on in Lisbon and following a month at the drydock nº.1 of NAVALROCHA shipyard, the FUNCHAL returned on 5 March at 16.00PM to the Matinha Pier where she is going to stay until May.

Photographs taken on 19 March 2011 in Lisbon by Luís Miguel Correia

FUNCHAL in Lisbon 23-08-2009

2009-08-25T06:19:00.000-07:00

The FUNCHAL departing from Lisbon at 5.00 PM on 23 August 2009 at the star of the Lisbon based summer cruises...
Copyright photograph by Luís Miguel Correia

T/S FUNCHAL at Istambul 28 June 1972

2009-08-25T05:02:00.001-07:00

In June 1972 the T/S FUNCHAL made a long cruise from Lisbon across the Mediterranean up to Istambul where the photograph was taken on 28 June by Bert Lammers.
It was FUNCHAL's first visit to Istambul.
The black hull without the lower white line is no longer in place after she was painted blue during the February - March refit at Lisnave Rocha shipyard. She was repainted blue for the charter voyage as ship of state with Portugal's President Admiral Thomaz to Brazil in April - May. On her return she did a voyage to the Azores still with blue hull and on the following stay in Lisbon the hull was repainted black again but with the white list as boot topping
Photo by Bert Lammers (L. M. Correia collection).

FUNCHAL cruises 1972

2009-08-25T04:40:00.000-07:00

Brochure of FUNCHAL Madeira and Canary Islands 1972 summer cruises from Lisbon.
She also did a long Mediterranean cruise, visiting Istambul for the first time in June 1972 as well as several Madeira and Azores cruises.
However boilers trouble led to her lay up in Lisbon in September 1972 and it was decided to replace the steam turbines by more economical Diesel engines.
Brochure and pictures from the Luís Miguel Correia collection

FUNCHAL REFIT 10-2008 to 04-2009

2009-04-30T00:55:00.000-07:00

Close ups of the Classic International Cruises passenger liner FUNCHAL undergoing extensive refiting work in Lisbon where she arrived 12 October 2008.
Next return to service on 5 April 2009 from Lisbon on a Canary Islands 7-day Easter cruise.
FUNCHAL was the first cruise ship to be operated by Mr George Potamianos' Lisbon-based Classic International Cruises. She was purchased frm CTM in August 1985 and started her first CIC cruise in December 1985.
In November 1986 a second ship was purchased, the INFANTE DOM HENRIQUE, rebuilt in Lisbon and Greece 1986-1988 and introduced in November 1988 as VASCO DA GAMA.
This famous former Portuguese flagship was sold in 1995 to Cruise Holdings and replaced in 1996 by PRINCESS DANAE.
The fleet was further expanded with the purchase in 1999 of ARION, built 1965 as ISTRA, followed in 2004 by ATHENA, the former ITALIA PRIMA of 1994 (a ship rebuilt in Italy using the hul of the former STOCKHOLM of 1948) and in 2007 the PRINCESS DAPHNE ex-OCEAN MONARCH.
Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to enlarged the images. Thanks for your visit and comm

FUNCHAL arriving at Lisbon Pilots May 2007

2009-04-23T06:20:00.000-07:00

The FUNCHAL arriving at the Lisbon Pilots' station off Algés, in the river Tagus, early in the morning, on her way to Lisbon on 17 May 2007. More images in the Portuguese version of this site.
Copyright photos and text by Luís Miguel Correia. Thanks for your visit and comments

INTRODUCTION

2006-03-20T06:21:00.000-08:00

The Portuguese cruise ship FUNCHAL of 1961 cruising under the colours of CTM - Companhia Portuguesa de Transportes Marítimos, of Lisbon. The FUNCHAL was owned by CTM between February 1974 and August 1985
Luís Miguel Correia collection copyright photograph