Ambassador

[Henry43]

Anyone beside me have the experience of cruising on the Cunard Ambassador ?

[Paul Motter]

No - your s was the first time I had ever heard of it, and so I looked it up. Quite an interesting history.

Built in 1972 she was one of the first "cruise" ships, as opposed to Ocean Liners, that Cunard ever built. At the time, of course, air travel accross the Atlantic was replacing sailing, and so Cunard had to change its business model.

There was a sister ship, the Adventurer. Both were only 14,000-tons, miniscule by today's standards. They cruised to Bermuda, our of San Juan and from Vancouver to Alaska.

I sailed on a ship that small last summer, the Silverseas Prince Albert II, and beleieve me, 14,000-tons is a small ship. You don't want to be on that ship crossing the North Sea, for example.

Where did you sail on her?

[Henry43]

In 1973 my wife and I were supposed to sail on the Amerikanis from Manhattan to Bermuda but the ship had problems and my TA offered either a full refund or the opportunity to cruise on the Cunard ,we opted for the latter .

[Paul Motter]

Henry - you sound like a VERY experienced cruiser. I hope you will stick around CruiseMates and talk about some more about cruising.

I am a guest every other Sunday on the Pierre Wolfe radio show, and he used to be a cook on the Cunard Caronia right after WW2. She was actually the first "cruise ship" in a sense since she wasn't really built for trans-Atlantic travel. She mostly did Med cruises and I believe she did a world cruise as well.

[Henry43]

Sorry that I did not see your reply until tonight . We've been on 3 cruises over a period of 35 years but our intent is to cruise a lot more often .