{"id":473,"date":"2011-02-06T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2011-02-06T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:45:00","slug":"queen-victoria-in-honolulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Queen Victoria in Honolulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/macprohawaii\/5423668558\/\" title=\"Queen Victoria in Honolulu by macprohawaii, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Queen Victoria in Honolulu\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5255\/5423668558_c6ae4211c9.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>This has been a good weekend for cruise ship spotters, the cruise ship industry and cruise ship tourism in Honnolulu. Over the last 3 days 4 cruise ships made port calls into Honolulu.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/macprohawaii.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/sapphire-princess.html\"><i><b>Sapphire Princess<\/b><\/i><\/a> and Cunard Line&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/macprohawaii.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/cunard-lines-ms-queen-elizabeth-stops.html\"><i><b>Queen Elizabeth<\/b><\/i><\/a>, both coming into the harbor 30 minutes apart. On Saturday, Honolulu&#8217;s weekly cruise ship arrive, NCL&#8217;s <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/macprohawaii\/2488390765\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\">Pride of America<\/a> <\/b><\/i>made her usual port call.<\/p>\n<p>Today Cunard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS_Queen_Victoria\"><i><b>Queen Victoria<\/b><\/i><\/a>, sister ship to the new <i><b>Queen Elizabeth<\/b><\/i> made her first stop of the year in Honolulu today. Her current cruise has taken her from Los Angeles to Mexico to Hawaii and back to Mexico and L.A. again. <br \/><i><b><br \/><\/b><\/i><br \/><i><b>Queen Victoria<\/b><\/i> is a regular visitor to Hawaii. She comes in at least once a year. This year she is scheduled to call into Honolulu again on February 23.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Queen Victoria<\/b><\/i> is a Vista Class liner, sharing many common design elements with other modern cruise ships from Holland America Line and P and O Cruises. The <i><b>Queen Victoria<\/b><\/i> is 964.5 feet long and stands 205 feet high from keel to funnel. She weighs 90,000 gross tons and 2,014 passenger and 900 crew.<i><b> Queen Victoria<\/b><\/i> was launched and put into service in 2007. She is one of three cruise ships operated by Cunard Line.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cunard.com\/Ships\/Queen-Victoria\/\"><b>Cunard Line Queen Victoria<\/b><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cunard.com\/Ships\/Queen-Victoria\/Bridge-Web-Cam\/\"><b>Cunard Line Queen Victoria Webcam<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/macprohawaii\/5422539508\/\" title=\"Queen Victoria in Honolulu by macprohawaii, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Queen Victoria in Honolulu\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5055\/5422539508_aa210db325.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Queen Victoria shortly before entering Honolulu Harbor this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/macprohawaii\/5421932985\/\" title=\"Queen Victoria in Honolulu by macprohawaii, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Queen Victoria in Honolulu\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5217\/5421932985_763df6a835.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Queen Victoria slowly making its way to Pier 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a good weekend for cruise ship spotters, the cruise ship industry and cruise ship tourism in Honnolulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}