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The following section provides a summary of the various cruise ships sailing from Port Everglades and their diversified itineraries. For more detailed information, including rates and accommodations, please contact your travel agent Call 954-969-0069 or the cruise line's agent. Please note that cruise schedules are subject to change. For 2 night Bahamas cruises CLICK HERE
Bahamas Fast Ferry
Enjoyed a beautiful day aboard the casino boat! We went out last Sunday and had a great time. Really enjoyed playing blackjack. $5.00 min, it was enjoyable not being forced to play $25 a hand like at Hard Rock in Tampa. Staff was pleasurable. Its not a glamorous casino, so don’t expect it to be.
- Leave from Fort Lauderdale Port Everglades
- Goes to Freeport Bahamas
- The only other gambling cruise ship operating in South Florida is Genting's Bimini SuperFast, which sails to Bimini and back. The SuperFast, which launched last year, has full gambling on the ship.
- Island breeze casino cruise ship Oct 12, 2017 FEMA charters another cruise ship to house relief workers.
- Jan 14, 2018 Casino boat rescue PASCO COUNTY, Fla. Authorities said 50 people were rescued from a Sun Cruz casino boat that caught fire near Port Richey, Florida, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office told CBS.
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1 Day cruise, leaves every day (except wednesday), rates starting at $99 plus tax per person, for details please call 954-969-0069 To travel to the Bahamas you will need a valid passport and a re-entry VISA if applicable. Stay on the island for a while longer? Choose one of our exciting Grand Bahama resort packages. Itinerary Leaves every day except Wednesday from Fort Lauderdale at 10:00 AM Gets to Freeport Grand Bahama at 12:30 PM Leaves Freeport at 7:30 PM Returns to Fort Lauderdale at 10:00 PM Call 954-969-0069 Cruise to Grand Bahama Island, from Fort Lauderdale Florida, USA
Island Adventure
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Sea Escape 4 to 6 hour cruises CLOSED use 1daycruise.com instead| Owner: | Island AdventureNew SeaEscape |
| Ship Size: | 15,410 tons |
| Length: | 512 feet |
| Passenger Capacity: | 1,000 |
| Pass Space Ratio: | 13 |
| Crew: | 300 |
| Decks: | 7 |
| Crew Nationality: | Officers: Ukrainian / Crew: Multi-national |
| Beam: | 72 feet |
| Total Cabins: | 175 |
| Speed: | 19 Knots |
| Builder: | Wartsila Shipyard, Helsinki, Finland |
| Deliverd | 1976 |
| Refurbished: | 1995 |
| Country of Registry: | Ukraine |
| Port Agent: | Florida Transportation |
| Embark Debark: | Cruise Terminal 1 |
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SS Festivale docked in Barbados on 26 February 1987. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Bahamas | |
| Route: | Southampton, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban |
| Builder: | John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom[1] |
| Yard number: | 720[1] |
| Launched: | 17 January 1961[1] |
| Completed: | December 1961 |
| Maiden voyage: | 18 January 1962[1] |
| Out of service: | September 2000[1] |
| Identification: | IMO number: 5367623 |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Alang, India, 2003.[1] |
| General characteristics as built, 1961[1] | |
| Type: | ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 32,697 GRT |
| Displacement: | 16,604 t DWT |
| Length: | 760ft 2in (231.7m) |
| Beam: | 90ft 2in (27.5m) |
| Draught: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Decks: | 8 |
| Installed power: | 44,000shp (32,800kW) |
| Propulsion: | Geared turbines, twin screw |
| Speed: | 22.5 knots (41.67 km/h; 25.89 mph) |
| Capacity: | 728 passengers one class |
| Crew: | 426 |
| General characteristics as rebuilt, 1978 | |
| Type: | cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 26,632 GRT (Panamanian rules, c.38,000 by UK rules) |
| Capacity: | 1,432 passengers[1] |
| Crew: | 579 |
| Notes: | Otherwise the same as built |
RMS Transvaal Castle was a British ocean liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank for the Union-Castle Line for their mail service between Southampton and Durban. In 1966 she was sold to the South Africa-based Safmarine and renamed S.A. Vaal for further service on the same route. Following cessation of the service between the UK and South Africa in 1977 the ship was sold to Carnival Cruise Line and rebuilt in Japan as the cruise shipSS Festivale, re-entering service in 1978.[2]
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Concept and construction[edit]
Casino lienzo charro santa rosa. RMSTransvaal Castle was the last in a series of three ships planned by the Union-Castle Line in the 1950s as replacements for the company's oldest ships RMS Arundel Castle, RMS Carnarvon Castle and RMS Winchester Castle. The Transvaal Castle was preceded by the RMS Pendennis Castle (delivered in 1958) and RMS Windsor Castle (delivered in 1960). Pendennis Castle was an enlarged Pretoria Castle from the same builder, Harland & Wolff, but after the Union-Castle/Clan Line merger of 1956, Clan Line management predominated and no further Union-Castle ships were ordered from the Belfast yard. Transvaal Castle was similar to but smaller than Windsor Castle, built by Cammell, Laird & Co. the previous year. At 32,697 GRT, she was the company's second-largest ship.
Transvaal Castle was launched at Clydebank on 17 January 1961 by Lady Cayzer, wife of the chairman of British & Commonwealth Shipping, and delivered to Union-Castle on 16 December 1961.[1] Like Windsor Castle, she was fully air conditioned and was one of the first British built passenger ships to have a bulbous bow. However, the major difference between the new ship and her fleetmates was that she was conceived as an experimental 'hotel' ship, with all passenger accommodation in one class rather than the first and tourist split of the other mail ships. This concept had been used in the three round Africa service ships of the Rhodesia Castle class built in 1951/2, but this was its first (and only) application to the mail fleet. A further innovation was the use of female waiting staff, known as 'stewardettes'. These were later to be a feature of the other ships in the mail fleet, but the one class concept was restricted to this one ship, the others remaining two class to the end of their service.
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Service history[edit]
1961–1977: United Kingdom—South Africa liner service[edit]
Transvaal Castle set out on her maiden voyage from Southampton to Durban on 18 January 1962. In July 1965, the mail service was accelerated with the Southampton-Cape Town voyage cut from 13½ days to 11½ days. The previous departure from Southampton at 4 PM on Thursday, every week was altered to 1 PM every Friday.[2]
In order to meet South African demands for a greater share in the running of the mail service, the Transvaal Castle and her fleetmate RMS Pretoria Castle (respectively the youngest and oldest units of the fleet) were transferred to the South African Marine Corporation (Safmarine) in 1966.[2] The Transvaal Castle was taken over by Safmarine on 12 January 1966 and renamed S.A. Vaal. The ship's hull was repainted white and her funnel changed to Safmarine's mid-grey, with three thin lines of the then South African national colours: orange white and blue. Although now under Safmarine ownership, both ships were bareboat chartered back to Union-Castle and continued to be manned by the same crews as the other mail ships. RMS S.A. Vaal remained registered in London[1] and continued to operate on the same service as before. Thus the UK—South Africa service became a joint operation between Union-Castle and Safmarine.[2] In February 1969 the S.A. Vaal and S.A. Oranje were re-registered in Cape Town.[1] but continued to be managed and crewed by Union-Castle, with a few Safmarine officers in later years. The mail ship operation was always managed from London.
The Union-Castle/Safmarine joint mailship service declined heavily during the 1970s. This was due to a combination of adverse economic factors including the loss of earnings from high value cargoes, which were increasingly being carried in the more efficient, revolutionary new container ships. With the large increase in oil prices in 1973, the mail ship schedule was extended by one day to allow more economical steaming. After Pendennis Castle was withdrawn in June 1976 just two mailships remained on the route – Union-Castle's Windsor Castle and Safmarine's S.A. Vaal – in addition to Union-Castle's last cargo/passenger vessels RMMV Good Hope Castle and RMMV Southampton Castle (carrying just 12 passengers each) and other chartered cargo-only tonnage. The jointly owned passenger liner service ceased completely in October 1977, with the S.A. Vaal being the last to arrive in Southampton on 10 October 1977.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ abcdefghijkAsklander, Micke. 'T/S Transvaal Castle (1961)'. Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 December 2008.
- ^ abcdeMiller, William H (1986). The Last Blue Water Liners. London: Conway. pp. 55–58. ISBN0-85177-400-8.
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