Fair Princess
Alongside at Garden Island, the same afternoon Fairstar sailed on her last cruise. Although replacing that ship on the market she was actually around the same age but much better appointed.
Having been laid up at San Diego for some time after a sale fell through, she was said to have been personally selected by P&O's Lord Sterling as Fairstar's succesor.
The ship's infrastructure was still largely that of the old Carinthia of 1956, and this was becoming a problem in terms of reliability - both due to the physical age of a lot of her equipment and the obsolete technologies involved. Presumably spare parts and expertise were difficult to source and she was sold in 2000.
All this with the caveat that she was a beautiful ship! It's a shame it didn't work out better.
Fair Princess
Alongside at Garden Island, the same afternoon Fairstar sailed on her last cruise. Although replacing that ship on the market she was actually around the same age but much better appointed.
Having been laid up at San Diego for some time after a sale fell through, she was said to have been personally selected by P&O's Lord Sterling as Fairstar's succesor.
The ship's infrastructure was still largely that of the old Carinthia of 1956, and this was becoming a problem in terms of reliability - both due to the physical age of a lot of her equipment and the obsolete technologies involved. Presumably spare parts and expertise were difficult to source and she was sold in 2000.
All this with the caveat that she was a beautiful ship! It's a shame it didn't work out better.