L2014_2367 MS ASTOR, Falmouth
ASTOR alongside County Wharf, Port of Falmouth on a cruise call on May 28, 2014.
For more photographs of Transocean Tours Ships please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Shipping/Shipping-Companies-Cruise/Trans...
Transocean Tours was a German company established in 1954 which operated cruises primarily in the German and British markets. It later became part of British based Cruise and Maritime Voyages.
In later years Transocean's principal ships were ASTOR and ASTORIA. Cruise and Maritime Voyages along with subsidiary Transocean Tours became insolvent during the Covid Pandemic and filed for insolvancy on July 20, 2020.
MS ASTORIA was a cruise ship of about 18,700 GT that was built in Germany by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft as the ASTOR in 1981. After short unsuccessful operations with two owners, she was bought by the East German government in 1985 and renamed ARKONA.
After 1990 the ship was operated by Seetours, which was acquired by P&O Princess Cruises in 1999, and then chartered to Transocean Tours as ASTORIA in 2002.
From 2009 until 2019 she was owned by Saga Cruises as SAGA PEARL II (and for a short period as QUEST FOR ADVENTURE), then withdrawn from service, laid up as Pearl II, and scrapped in 2022.
MS ASTOR was a cruise ship that most recently sailed for Cruise & Maritime Voyages' Transocean Cruises subsidiary, under which she operated voyages to Europe, South Africa, and Australia.
The ship was originally built in 1987 under the name ASTOR by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), Kiel in West Germany for the Mauritius-based Marlan Corporation, although originally ordered by the South African Safmarine as a combined ocean liner/cruise ship for the Southampton-Cape Town service.
In 1988, she was sold to the Soviet Union-based Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Fedor Dostoevskiy (some sources spell the name Fedor Dostoyevskiy, Russian: Фёдор Достое́вский), but spent her time under charter to various West German cruise lines.
In 1995, she reverted to the name, ASTOR. From 1996 until 2020, she operated under charter to Transocean Tours.
After Transocean Cruises' parent company, Cruise & Maritime Voyages, entered administration in 2020, Astor was sold at auction by C.W. Kellock London Ltd. on 15 October 2020 for US$1,710,000.
She was beached in Aliaga, Turkey, on 23 November 2020 for scrap. Scrapping started four days later and was completed by 30 March 2021.
L2014_2367 MS ASTOR, Falmouth
ASTOR alongside County Wharf, Port of Falmouth on a cruise call on May 28, 2014.
For more photographs of Transocean Tours Ships please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Shipping/Shipping-Companies-Cruise/Trans...
Transocean Tours was a German company established in 1954 which operated cruises primarily in the German and British markets. It later became part of British based Cruise and Maritime Voyages.
In later years Transocean's principal ships were ASTOR and ASTORIA. Cruise and Maritime Voyages along with subsidiary Transocean Tours became insolvent during the Covid Pandemic and filed for insolvancy on July 20, 2020.
MS ASTORIA was a cruise ship of about 18,700 GT that was built in Germany by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft as the ASTOR in 1981. After short unsuccessful operations with two owners, she was bought by the East German government in 1985 and renamed ARKONA.
After 1990 the ship was operated by Seetours, which was acquired by P&O Princess Cruises in 1999, and then chartered to Transocean Tours as ASTORIA in 2002.
From 2009 until 2019 she was owned by Saga Cruises as SAGA PEARL II (and for a short period as QUEST FOR ADVENTURE), then withdrawn from service, laid up as Pearl II, and scrapped in 2022.
MS ASTOR was a cruise ship that most recently sailed for Cruise & Maritime Voyages' Transocean Cruises subsidiary, under which she operated voyages to Europe, South Africa, and Australia.
The ship was originally built in 1987 under the name ASTOR by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), Kiel in West Germany for the Mauritius-based Marlan Corporation, although originally ordered by the South African Safmarine as a combined ocean liner/cruise ship for the Southampton-Cape Town service.
In 1988, she was sold to the Soviet Union-based Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Fedor Dostoevskiy (some sources spell the name Fedor Dostoyevskiy, Russian: Фёдор Достое́вский), but spent her time under charter to various West German cruise lines.
In 1995, she reverted to the name, ASTOR. From 1996 until 2020, she operated under charter to Transocean Tours.
After Transocean Cruises' parent company, Cruise & Maritime Voyages, entered administration in 2020, Astor was sold at auction by C.W. Kellock London Ltd. on 15 October 2020 for US$1,710,000.
She was beached in Aliaga, Turkey, on 23 November 2020 for scrap. Scrapping started four days later and was completed by 30 March 2021.