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McNeece To Design Royal Clipper's 4-Masfed Barquentines •6 fViP^lnV

U.K. passenger ship interior design specialist

McNeece Ltd. secured the contract to carry out the complete interior and exterior public area design of two four-masted Barquentine passen- ger sail cruise liners to be built in Europe for

Royal Clippers of Antwerp, Belgium. McNeece's contract calls for the full design of the vessels' interiors and supervision during outfitting.

This is the first time that McNeece has been involved with sailing vessels.

The company has a proven track record from working on passenger cruise vessels: passenger ferries, passenger cruise liners and high speed ferries

The 397-ft. (121-m) Royal Clipper vessels, with a mast height of 233 ft. (71 m) and a sail area of 3,410-sq.-m., will reportedly be the largest "clas- sic" design sail cruise vessels in the world.

Designed for operation worldwide, the

Barquentine's shallow draft (19 ft. [5.73 m] maxi- mum) will enable them to enter ports and harbors not normally accessible by larger cruise vessels.

Both vessels will initially operate in the West

Indies. The vessel will be modeled after the large sailing yachts of the early 1900s. The hull will be steel throughout. Each vessel will accommodate about 150 passengers, and will be of a style of rounded section with a bold flair, Clipper bow, a long counter stern and little or no parallel mid- body.

Delivery of the first vessel is set for April 1996, with the second following a year later.

Carnival Returns FiestaMarina To

Epirotiki

Carnival Corporation said its charter of the cruise ship FiestaMarina has been terminated and the ship has been returned to its owner,

Epirotiki Cruise Lines, in which Carnival Corpo- ration holds a 43 percent interest.

The FiestaMarina sailed from the port of Mi- ami destined for Piraeus, Greece. Following a refurbishment there, it is to be renamed to the

MTS Olympic and, on April 7, 1995, begin oper- ating on Epirotiki's Aegean/Greek Isles Golden

Fleece itinerary — a seven-day cruise calling at

Istanbul, Kusadasi, Rhodes, Heraklion/Santorini,

Patmos and Mykonos. At 27,250-grt and carry- ing 950 passengers, the Olympic will be the largest vessel in the Epirotiki fleet.

FiestaMarina Cruises was launched late last year as a division of Carnival, and was the first cruise operation aimed exclusively at the Latin

American and Hispanic markets.

Athens, Greece-based Epirotiki Lines oper- ates 11 ships, primarily in the Aegean and Medi- terranean.

Carnival Corporation is comprised of Carnival

Cruise Line, reportedly the largest in the world;

Holland America Line; Windstar Cruises; and

Seabourn Cruise Line (25 percent owned); all of ivhich combined operate 21 ships. )ctober, 1994

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