BLACK PRINCE

 

            Owner/Operator : Fred Olsen Cruise Line

            Flag : Bahamas

            Homeport : Nassau

            Buildt : 1966 at Lubecer Flender-Werke Lubeck,Germany

            Length : 141,6 m

            Width : 20,0 m

            Depth : 6,1 m

            Brt : 11209

            Passengers : 527

 

            Ex names :

            BLACK PRINCE ( 1966-1970 ) Fred Olsen Cruise Line

            VENUS ( 1970-1970 ) Bergenske Dampskip Selskap

            BLACK PRINCE ( 1970-1971 ) Fred Olsen Cruise Line

            VENUS ( 1971-1983 ) Bergenske Dampskip Selskap ( In summer season)

            BLACK PRINCE ( 1971-1983 ) Fred Olsen Cruise Line ( In winter season)

            BLACK PRINCE ( 1983 - 2009 ) Fred Olsen Cruise Line

            PRINCE ( 2009 - 2009 ) SAVECA

            OLA ESMERALDA ( 2009 --> ) Ola Cruises

 

            Sister Ships :

            CROWN - ( Scraped 2008 )

 

            05.2009 : Sold to Servicios Acuaticos de Venezuela CA ( SAVECA )

            02.10 - 16.10.2009 : Last voyage for Black Prince under Fred Olsen Cruise Line.

            16.10.2009 : Starting the work to take away name marks and paint the funnel.

            20.10.2009 : Hand-over to her new owners.

            11.2009 : Renamed to " PRINCE " 

            06.11.2009 : " PRINCE " leave Southampton for a last time.

            11.2009 : Renamed to OLA ESMERALDA and reflaged to Sierra Leone whit homeport Freetown

        02.2010 : Reflagged from Sierra Leone to Venezuela,La Guaira.

            03.2010 : Chartred by UN to house earthquake aid workers in Haiti for six moths.

        10.2012 : Arrive Ozema River,Dominican Republic.

        11.2012 : Sold for scapping.

        10.2013 : Scrapped at Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic.