MS Cunard Princess

MS Cunard Princess was a cruise ship, previously owned an operated by the Israel-based Mano Maritime.

[1] Following re-delivery from Navali Mechaniche Affini in 1977 the ship was renamed MS Cunard Princess.

[5] In 2009 she was sold to Mano Maritime and sailed as Golden Iris until 2018, when she was laid up at Chalkis Shipyard, Greece.

Following delivery to Cunard in early 1977[2] the ship sailed to New York City, where she was renamed and christened by Princess Grace of Monaco.

[2][9] At the time the Cunard Princess was registered in Southampton, but in 1980 she was moved to the Bahamian registry, with Nassau as her homeport.

[1] Initially the plan was to operate the ship on three-day cruises around the Persian Gulf, but for economic reasons she was permanently moored in Bahrain instead.

[3] Shortly after acquisition of the Rhapsody StarLauro was rebranded as Mediterranean Shipping Cruises on 1 October 1995.

[4] She operated from her home port of Haifa to Cyprus, the Greek Islands, Montenegro, Italy, and Croatia.

[13] In November 2021 she was renamed Gold Club, and in 2022 sold for demolition in Turkey, arriving at a scrapping yard at Aliağa, on 11 July.

In StarLauro service her funnel was repainted in that company's livery of blue with a black top and a white five-pointed star in the centre.

Cunard Princess in Juneau, Alaska in 1986.
Cunard Princess in 1991
Rhapsody in Trondheim , Norway in 2007.
Golden Iris