Thanks for the info, dedge. I was just about to ask why she had a somewhat short life...

Proving that beauty is in the eye of the beholder I always thought her a fine looking ship, especially as built. Unfortunately she was built for the needs of the day, not the needs of the future and given steam turbines which became a death sentence after the first oil crisis.

Tom400, is that opinion based upon the appearance of the Reina Del Mar as she is in the above photograph, or as she was when she first entered service for PSNC - or indeed in both guises?

Sorry Malcolm,

this is -again - a very good photograph as almost all of your excellent postings.

The REINA DEL MAR (Queen of the Seas) to me is the most ugly passenger ship of the post war period I know. Comparing her with American, Italian, French, Dutch, Scandinavian or other British vessels, I feel she has no balanced lines, no style. Her design is just going nowhere.

Malcolm,
Went on a cruise on her to Tenerife, Casablanca and Lisbon which would have been about that time, she rolled quite heavily but it didn't put me off joining Blue Star a few years later so I suppose this is the ship that started my sea career.
Thanks for the post.
Dave.