SAGA PEARL

12,331 grt, Saga Cruises, 428 passengers.

Built as Russian Research Ship OKEAN, converted to cruise ship 1996. Minerva, Swan Hellenic Cruises; 2003 operated half the year as Explorer II for Abercrombie and Kent, other half for Saga Cruises.  2005 renamed Alexander von Humboldt (see under 'A')

14th August 2004  Leith

SAGA ROSE  (A)

24,528 grt, Saga Cruises, 589 passenger.

Built 1965 as Sagafjord, Norwegian America Line, 1983 bought by Cunard, same name; 1996-97 chartered name Gripsholm; 1997 Saga Cruises.

23rd August 2005, Leith

SAGA ROSE  (B)

SAGA ROSE (C)

Off Hound Point, 24th August 2006

SAGA RUBY

24,492 grt, Saga Ruby, 690 passengers.

Built 1973 as Vistafjord, Norwegian America Line, 1983 bought by Cunard, same name, renamed Caronia 1999; sold 2005 Saga Cruises.

18th July 2005, Leith

SAGA ROSE (GS)

photograph by Graeme Simpson

SEABOURN PRIDE (A)

9,975 grt Seabourn Cruises, 212 passengers

18th June 2004

SEABOURN PRIDE (B)

SEA CLOUD II (A)

3,878 grt, Sea Cloud Cruises, 2000, 96 passengers

15th JULY 2005, Leith

SEA CLOUD II (B)

6th July 2004

SERENADE of the SEAS

90,090grt, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, 2,500 passengers, 2003

Strait of Georgia, July 2007

SEVEN SEAS VOYAGER (Leith)

Regent Seven Seas Cruises, 2003, (Radisson Seven Seas Cruises), 41,827grt, 714 passengers

28th August 2006

SEVEN SEAS VOYAGER (Hound Point)

3rd September 2007

SEVEN SEAS VOYAGER and Forth Rail Bridge

3rd September 2007

SILVER CLOUD (A)

16,927 grt, Silversea Cruises Ltd, 1994, 314 passengers

 2005, Leith

SILVER CLOUD (B)

SILVER WIND

16,927 t, Silversea Cruises Ltd, 1995, 314 passengers

Leith, 7th September 2008, replacing the one of 23rd  August 2007

SPIRIT of ADVENTURE

Saga Holidays,  9,570 grt, 352 passengers, built 1980

ex Orange Melody 2006, ex Berlin 2005, ex Princess Mahsuri 1985, ex Berlin 1982

16th May 2008 Leith

SUN  PRINCESS

77,441grt, Princess Cruises, 1995, 1,950 passengers

photograph by Graeme Simpson

TAHITIAN PRINCESSS [IMO 9187899]

Cruise Liner, Princess Cruises, 30,277 tons, built 1999 as R- FOUR, renamed 2002.  Forth Rail Bridge 28^th May 2009

Thomson Spirit {8024014}

Cruise Liner, Wind Surf (Bahamas)/Louis Group, 33,930 gt, built 1983.  Built as Nieuw Amsterdam, renamed Patriot (1999), Nieuw Amsterdam (2001), Spirit / Thomson Spirit (2003). 

River Tyne 10^th July 2009

Thomson Spirit (Stern view)

VAN GOGH at Forth Rail Bridge

Travelscope, 15,402 grt built, 640 passengers. 1975 as Gruziya, Black Sea Shipping Co., converted to Cruise ship 1992, renamed ODESSA SKY, renamed Club Cruise 1.

Firth of Forth, 15th May 2007

VISION OF THE SEAS

Cruise Ship, Royal Caribbean International, 78,340 grt, 2,416 passengers. Built 1998. 

off Hound Point 12th May2010

VISTAMAR

Plantours, 1989,  7,479 grt,  330 passengers

Leith 16th August 2006

WINDSURF

16,927 grt, WINDSTAR CRUISES, 1989, 312 passengers

Ex- CLUB MED 1

29th AUGUST 2004, Leith

WINDSURF (GS)

photograph by Graeme Simpson

23rd Feb 2005

ZUIDERDAM ~ Skagway

85,920 grt, Holland America Line, 2,272 passengers, 2002

3rd July 2007