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MV ''Azores'' is a Portuguese cruise ship operated by Portuscale Cruises. Until 2012, the ship was operated by Classic International Cruises, as the ''Athena''. In 2013, she was transferred to Portuscale Cruises and renamed ''Azores''. She will again be renamed, to ''Astoria'', at the end of the 2015 summer season. She was ordered in 1944, and launched 9 September 1946, as the ''Stockholm'' by Götaverken in Gothenburg for the Swedish America Line (SAL). Since her career with SAL, she has sailed under the names ''Völkerfreundschaft'', ''Volker'', ''Fridtjof Nansen'', ''Italia I'', ''Italia Prima'', ''Valtur Prima'', and ''Caribe'', before beginning service as the ''Athena''. As ''Stockholm'', she was best known for colliding with the ''Andrea Doria'' in 1956, resulting in the sinking of the latter ship. With the retirement of the ''Doulos Phos'' in 2010, the ''Azores'' is (as of May 2015) the world's oldest active oceangoing passenger ship. ==Service history== At with a gross register tonnage of 12,165 register tons, ''Stockholm'' was the smallest passenger ship operating on the North Atlantic route at the time. However, she was the largest passenger ship built in Sweden at the time. Originally designed to carry 395 people, a 1953 refit expanded ''Stockholm's'' capacity to 548 people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MV Azores」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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