You Won't See The Sea
pp. 95-97 · Read in the full issue
For Cruise Ships
The growing importance of holi day cruises in the shipping lines’ economy is illustrated in the 1972 programmes released in July by Pacific Far East Line, P. & O. and the Sitmar Line.
Pacific Far East Line’s 1972 cruise schedule includes a round-world cruise by the 20,000-ton Mariposa starting from Sydney on April 4 and calling at 26 ports including Port
Moresby, Papeete, Moorea and Bay of Islands and Auckland in New Zealand.
Other highlights of PFEL’s cruise programme are eight cruises through the South Seas between California and Sydney and two cruises from California to Alaska.
P. & O.’s Canberra will sail on her first South Seas cruise in October, 1972, as part of P. & O.’s expanding holiday cruise programme for 1972 which consists of 32 cruises, ranging from four to 34 days. There will also be 18 sailings to the United Kingdom—lo of them through the Pacific and Panama Canal and eight via South Africa.
The longer cruises include a three week visit to Tahiti by Orcades in May and a Hawaiian cruise over Christmas and the New Year. There will be three cruises to the Orient— Orcades in March, Himalaya in June and Canberra in October.
Sitmar Cruises plan to operate two cruise ships in the Pacific from 1972 on. The ships, costing an estimated $50.5 million, are under construction at Trieste, and will be named the Fairwind and Fairsea.
The Fairsea will be first to operate, out of Los Angeles. The Fairwind will be based at Sydney. She will leave Southampton on her maiden voyage on January 9, arriving in Sydney on February 15.