Cruise Liner News – Viking Cruises will relaunch Mediterranean cruise with two ships operating from Malta starting from July 2021
The 2021 built VIKING VENUS and the 2016 built VIKING SEA will both homeport at Valletta, Malta and offer two different 11-day itineraries between July and early October. Delivered in April, 2021 the VIKING VENUS is Viking’s newest ocean ship and will be christened in England on 17th May . In fact first time to see her […]
Maltese Islands – Toy Museum at Valletta
The Toy Museum at Malta is located in the capital city – Valletta in Republic Street opposite Casa Rosa Piccola which is a beautiful palace owned by the 9th Marquis de Piro, and is the only private palazzo open to the public in Valletta. The Toy Museum spreads over three floors. The Toy Museum houses a very […]
Scuttling Operation – LADY SANDRA aft found and scuttled by Tunisian Navy – 25.05.2020
The aft part of the 89.90 metre inland tanker LADY SANDRA that was split in two on Wednesday 25th March, 2020 was found drifting 8 miles off Djerba Island on Tuesday 12th May. 501 TNS LA GALITE offshore Malta back to 30th May, 2014. On Monday 25th May the Tunisian Navy towed the aft part from the […]
Maltese Islands – Bugibba Perched Beach
The only sandy beach in St. Paul’s Bay Area is the BUGIBBA PERCHED BEACH located on the side of the promenade in Dawret il-Gzejjer, in the main area between Qawra and Bugibba which is a complete touristic area. In June 2006 a project to build a sandy beach at Bugibba started which was planned for completion […]
Preserved Ships – CUTTY SARK (1869) – UK
One of the only three remaining original composite construction (wooden hull on an iron frame) clipper ships from the nineteenth century in part or whole is the clipper ship CUTTY SARK. Listed by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet (the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building). She was built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 […]
