PALOMA I (D&P Cruises) at Gibraltar on 13th April 2004

Names : Dmitriy Shostakovich (1980) > Paloma > Paloma I > Royale Star

Dmitriy Shostakovich was built in 1980, the first of a series of seven similar ships in the Dmitriy Shostakovich Class used by the Soviet shipping companies as ferries and passenger/cruise ships. She was built by Stocznia Szczecinska at Szczecin (Poland) for the Black Sea Shipping Company. Following the collapse of that company in 1996, she had a number of owners. In 2000 she was bought by Macro Maritime, and traded as Paloma for Columbus Leisure Line. In 2003 she was bought by the Italian company D&P Cruises, and renamed Paloma I. D&P Cruises sold her in 2007 for use as the gambling ship Royale Star in Singapore.

Photo: © 2004 Ian Boyle - www.simplonpc.co.uk