Sunday, 15 January 2012

Look what i stubbled on


Last year in a Local Auction i accidently bidded on a collection of souvenir spoons in a lot containing lots of interesting spoons.
This one spoon lead me to look up its history that sure seems interesting if you dont mind me saying so.
Take a look at my spoon bellow:


Look how this ship resembles a time when its paint job  was the same as this scale model bellow.


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Now take a look at this old bottle opener that i have found randomly online in brazil

 REINA DEL MAR

 REINA DEL MAR
Here is some of her History


S.S. REINA DEL MAR
~ The Queen of the Sea ~
A website dedicated to the History of  Reina del Mar says:. She was the last passenger ship built for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and their South American service. At the time she was the largest, fastest and only fully air-conditioned passenger liner operating a regular service between the UK, France, Spain and the west coast of South America via the Panama Canal.
In 1964 she was withdrawn from the South American service and chartered to the Travel Savings Association (TSA) and converted into a cruise ship. She was sold to Union-Castle Line in 1973 after they had taken full ownership of the TSA. She became their only cruise ship. She was finally withdrawn from service in 1975 and scrapped in Taiwan.

I have found that there is other versions of the story of what happened to this ship:
~ Reina Del Mar ~

Reina del Mar was a 13,824 GRT cruise ship which was built by Vickers-Armstrongs in 1950. She served with Furness Withy for fifteen years, then with a Bulgarian company for three years, renamed Varna. She spent much of the 1970s laid up, and was renamed Venus and then Riviera. In the early 1980s, she was renamed Reina del Mar and refitted for further use as a cruise ship but a fire gutted her, and she was scuttled on 1 June 1981 when a further fire broke out.


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