The Life of Pacific Pearl/Columbus #cruiseship #ship #cruise #shiplife #australia #alang #cruising
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The ship had a lot of names so for the title I added her name when I boarded her & her last name before scrapping. MV Columbus was a cruise ship & was built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, at their shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France & launched in 1988 as Sitmar Fair Majesty. Originally ordered for Sitmar Cruises, with the merger of Sitmar Cruises into Princess, she first entered service with Princess Cruises as Star Princess in 1989. From 1997 to 2003, she served in the P&O Cruises fleet as MV Arcadia. She was renamed Ocean Village in 2003 when the brand was established. Ocean Village was the sole cruise ship of the Ocean Village brand after the Ocean Village Two became the Pacific Jewel. In 2010 the Ocean Village brand ceased its operations & she was transferred to P&O Cruises Australia & renamed Pacific Pearl. She served in the P&O Cruises Australia fleet until 2017 when she was sold to Cruise & Maritime Voyages & renamed MV Columbus. Following CMV entering administration in 2020 & some months later resold to scrap in Eleusis Bay. In 2021 she was sold for scrap in Alang, India where she was beached & dismantled. This was my first cruise ship. I’ve spent my 17th birthday onboard this ship as the Pacific Pearl with my parents & siblings on a 10 day cruise from Sydney, Australia to a few ports in New Zealand & back.