A Day At Sea Aboard The REGENT SEA
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Happy Easter for those who celebrate!
On April 9, 1974, thirteen year old Peter Knego paid his fist visit to Swedish American Lines deluxe M.V. GRIPSHOLM when that ship called at Los Angeles on her South Seas, Far East and Pacific Cruise. The legendary liner would soon be sold to Karageorgis Lines to begin a relatively brief career as the NAVARINO before becoming Regency Cruises REGENT SEA. On October 7, 1993, Knego made his only cruise aboard the once pristine classic ship, a short afternoon voyage from Ensenada to San Diego. This video captures the still gorgeous liner from a water taxi in Ensenada and on board as REGENT SEA made her way up the Baja and Southern California coast. Within two years, the REGENT SEA would be laid up and sold off following the collapse of Regency. What came next was excruciatingly sad, so we'll save that and much more for our full Decked! history and top-to-bottom REGENT SEA tour that will be coming soon, fingers crossed that this less detailed tribute gets a warm reception.
To celebrate the 49th anniversary of Knego's first and only visit to the GRIPSHOLM, this video will premiere on April 9, 2023.
Licensed music from Artlist includes: "Just On Time" by Dono, "Go With The Flow" by Zac Nelson, "El Cognito" and "Getting Down" by Tzabutan, "Waltz In C Sharp Minor" and "Nocturne In E Flat" by Daviid Gives.
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Just found your video, what a treasure! My friend and I took the Regent Sea to Alaska in July 1993, about 3 months before you shot your video. We chose this ship specifically to be able to experience an actual ocean liner from 1957. A rare opportunity. Her history was what appealed to us. Once onboard, we were delighted to find so much of the original furnishings and decor. The mid-century modern chairs. The teakwood promenades. Our stateroom was just below the promenade deck, and our porthole windows actually opened.
The crew, staff and food were absolutely top-notch. The scale of the ship was wonderful, and the ratio of staff to passengers was the highest in the industry. Our steward always made sure we had fresh buckets of ice in our room. For dinner, the chef prepared fresh salmon caught that morning by our dining-table mates on their fishing excursion. Supposedly a “budget” cruise, but it turned out to be an unparalleled luxurious experience, thanks to the staff.
My friend and I both laughed when we saw the pool STILL didn’t have water, 3 months after we were there. Did they fix the ballast by the time you sailed? Our whole trip, she was listing to the port-side. When we hit stormy Pacific waves one night, everyone onboard was staggering except us. The two of us were well fortified, possibly inebriated: The secret trick of being able to walk a straight line in rough seas.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I could bore you for many paragraphs about all the great fun, amazing happenings, and hilarity of that trip. The good ship Regent Sea was always at the heart of it.
I absolutely love the Gripsholm and Kungsholm. They in my opinion were the most beautiful ships ever made in all the history of Maritime travel.
Hope you enjoy this next one, Travis! And I agree completely with you, of course. :)
I agree - especially Kungsholm...
I am Swedish and my father sailed with her to America 3 times. He loved that so much
Those last three SAL ships were among the most beautiful ever built. I was a kid but am so happy I got to visit both GRIPSHOLM and KUNGSHOLM 66 before they went on to other careers. Thanks so much for posting. :)
So happy to have seen this! I worked onboard the Regent Sea as a musician ('86 - '88, '91). This video brings back so many beautiful memories. I can almost smell the air, feel the deck beneath my feet, touch the salty handrails. Thank you!
Peter, well done commentary, Regency was the our first ship we brought back to life after a dry dock accident.
Takis Kyriakides
Ex Chairman
Dear Mr, Kyriakides, I'm so honored that you watched. I will be doing a much more detailed tour of her with her full history in the near future. Would you perchance have any photos of her in the drydock incident as SAMANTHA? That must have been quite a scare but I'm so happy you managed to salvage her and give her another decade or so of life. My best to you, Peter
I always loved the 1957 Gripsholm. Have many deck plans, brochures, etc. Visited her in NYC in September of 1964...she sailed at 11:30 a.m. I left the ship and then watched the Gripsholm sail past from the deck of the Cristoforo Colombo, which sailed at noon.
my friend Taki was the ships owner under regency in the 1980s, sadly he sold her (and the company) in the early 90s to a Business partner (Tony Lelakis, to whom the Starlite Ship you show early on also belonged) and due to a ton of poor financial decisions (regent sky being a big one) the company quickly collapsed by the mid 90s, eventually Taki tried to come back and restore order but it was sadly far too late for the firm
This was an incredible little video, I can only dream of being aboard ships of this breed but that's a long gone era sadly
also I always felt sad for the Catalina, she was quite an advanced little ship of her time with those incredibly low slung lifeboats
Thanks so much for all the support over the years -- yes, both were very special ships. Sad that they are both gone.
Thank you Peter for this ! I was on board 1989-90 from Alaska to Montreal. Met my daughter´s father on board - ship of destiny .. and now she can see it thanks to you
We sailed aboard the Regent Sea to Alaska from Vancouver. Obviously there was not enough room in the refrigerated storage, as boxes of lettuce were stacked under the aft fantail stairs for the first day. The dining room food was phenomenal, large portions of halibut were available most nights. I still have the menus from all seven nights of that cruise, so many things to choose from. Some very fond memories indeed.
Thanks so much for watching and posting, Ron. :)
Thanks for showing this! Swedish America Lines doesn’t get enough love🇸🇪
I remember seeing my parent's off from NYC on the Gripsholm in June 1973 for a 7 week North Cape cruise..it was a beautiful ship staffed by a dedicated crew.
Thank you very much for uploading this. I was on board the MSS Navarino in the summer of 1980 for a mediterranean cruise. I was only 10 years old then but instantly fell
in love with the ship (and also the greek cuisine). 3 years later we made another cruise on a russian ship, that was so bad an not comparable in any way, but the 2 weeks on the Navarino
starting vom Venice, Italy were the best holiday of my life. Many things on the Regent Sea were still looking identically for what I remember. Especially the sundeck and the promenade, I also remember those balconies were still there in 1980 and veranda deck, stairs and lounges look all very very familar. The auditorium back then was the cinema and the gymnasium and spa was the indoor swimming pool very low deck with underwater windows. I clearly remember the wall art octopus and stuff at 7:02 min. I also have some Super 8 footage but my dad mainly filmed the excursions, so there is only one scene on deck with the chairs and me in the pool as I remember. I also have to look up my photo album because somewhere I must also still have the brochure from Karageorgis and the group photo from the rescue exercise when all were wearing life jackets or me shaking hands with the captain when boarding, who some years later on my father learned at the time drove the ship onto a reef or something like that. One of the comments says "dry dock accident" so that's what happened, and decades later I've read on the internet how the ship's story went further on until the very end :(
Incredible memories! Thank you for keeping her "alive" here. :)
I was on the Regent Sea in fall of '90.....from LA......she seemed a lot more fresh then, which was only 3 years prior to your video. Swedish America line took the lead of the Caronia to create beautiful high standard ocean liners with the emphasis on luxury cruising.
Great that you got to do a proper cruise in this beauty. She was such a perfect ship. Thanks for posting.
Used to enjoy her visits to Port Castries St.Lucia ...Regent Sun was the weekly face but a call from Sea was definitely a treat.
The SUN was a nice ship but loved the SEA the most. Thanks for watching and posting.
What a gorgeous ship. From her beautiful teak decks to her understated interiors she was just a glorious craft. It's such a shame modern cruise ships are decorated as though they are a Las Vegas venue rather than a ship. The glitz and glamour is lost on me, as I prefer the wood-paneled, smaller and more cozy atmosphere that these mid-century ships offered in volumes. Thanks Peter for these marvelous trips back in time.
Thanks for posting. Totally with you on the smaller classic ships. Miss them very much.
Love those teak wood decks! It was great seeing the Viking Serenade. It was my first time cruise on that ship and I'd forgotten her name .
Thank you. :)
I can’t wait to see the video on her history
It's on the long list. I was hoping this video would stimulate more interest in that beauty but it seems to have fizzled out. I'll never quite get what gets the algorithms flowing.
This was amazing, Peter. Seems much more attention in general has been paid to her sister the Kungsholm, so this vid of yours was a real treat. I saw this ship in the late 90s when she was laid up in Tampa .. just before she was towed out on "that" trip. I was so sad to hear of her demise. Another wonderful vid of yours .. you continue to amaze!
FANTASTIC and this is just the start. I got to visit her when I was a travel agent when she was in Tampa. They had a marvelous lunch for us in the Caravelle Dining Room. I think we came down a nice staircase that was in the dining room, of I'm right.
The visit was just too fast, not much time to get photos 😢😢.
On our cruise on the CELEBRATION, we had seen her for the last time. She still looked grand and known as the SEA, on the distance was the sadly retired BRITANIS. I managed to get exterior photos of the SEA as we passed her.😢😢 As well as long distant shots of BRITANIS 😢😢.
Thanks so much for watching and for your kind comments, Deborah! Always appreciate it. On this ship, there was no staircase in the dining room but on REGENT RAINBOW, there was a balcony. Maybe that is what you are thinking of? :)
@@midshipcinema On the REGENT RAINBOW I recall and took photos of the nice staircase that came down from the lounge above the Lebistro buffet aft. It had a light grayish marble background, it was really pretty. I might be thinking of the NIEUW AMSTERDAM in the early '90's?? We visited her then. It's not the first time I've been confused about a staircase on a cruise ship that I thought was there LOL 😆😆.
I can smell it! What a strange memory after 32 years
LOL, smell and certain songs make the most indelible of memories. Thanks for posting.
Wonderful .
Thanks, as ever, Richard. :)
Ms Gripsholm was well proportioned ship, like Kungsholm. Two Gotaverken two stroke diesel driven Kungsholm at impressive 25 knots top speed!
just super, a wonderful video and brings back many happy memories of ships of yesteryear
That's very kind of you to post. So glad you enjoyed the video. :)
What an interesting video. I sailed on the Regent Star to the Panama Canal in 1993. It might have been considered a budget line at that time but service and food were much better than what you get on today's modern ships
People don't know what they are missing today. Thanks for posting. :)
Wonderful, as usual, Peter! Those wings on the funnels always looked like someone wearing a baseball cap, backwards.
Reminds me of Sagafjord & Vistafjord. Very classy curved hull. Regent gave it their best try, but wasn't able to gain commercial traction if I recall. By the 1980's it was hard for budding cruise lines to find success using older tonnage.
The HOLM's were direct competition with SAGA and VISTA and quite equal in stature. Regency went bankrupt after the owner spent too much converting the REGENT RAINBOW and attempting to build the REGENT SKY.
Excellent images of another timeless beauty. Thank you Peter 🙏
Thanks, as ever, Frank, for watching and posting!
When you have a chance please tell us any ideas you may have on traveling back in time. It would be lovely to take a dip in the aft pool and spend some time in the Sea Lounge before heading forward to dine well at the Caravelle!
Thanks, Grant! I like your time travel proposal! Let's do it! :)
My first cruise!!! Alaska, 1991 ❤
Fantastico vid ! Bellissima vessel. Miss her human scale. Such a sad end.
Thanks so much for watching and posting. She was one of my favorites, for sure.
Thank you, Peter! What a great trip and what a pleasure to go along with you on it. I've seen so little of this wonderful ship and even less of her interiors. I appreciate seeing the Regent Sea inside and out. A little detail that I particularly noticed andappreciated was in the second library shown: a couple of writing tables were against the wall and that I suspect go all the way back to when the Gripsholm debuted in '57. I like those tables that are made for two people and that have the partition down the middle so people can write letter and fill out postcards yet still have some privacy. I wonder if those tables originally had stationery and envelopes with the company logo on them. When the Gripsholm started service people still use fountain pens to write letters. I'm someone who still does that and I enjoy seeing the different kinds of writing tables on liners from the past.
Thanks so much, Andrew. That was a nice library. I remember during my first visit, there were GRIPSHOLM post cards and stationary available at those writing tables.
This is excellent! I missed her in her glory days but saw her faded beauty in around 2000 when she was laid up in the Tampa area. Love at first sight. Such a classic looking ship, breathtaking even in her dilapidated state.
Really looking forward to this .
I wonder if there would be a market today for a newbuilt non-luxury (three to four star) cruise ship with a classic look. All we get today are floating mega-resorts, small Boutique vessels for the ultra-luxury market and 'expedition' ships. Not much in-between. Maybe the Saga-ships from Meyer Werft come closest to what I think of...
Looking forward to it! 🚢🚢
Love all your works, Peter - looking forward to the deck by deck. I add my name to those that always admired GRIPSHOLM from afar - her exclusively outside cabin layout a rarity. Seeing photos of her attempted Florida refurb layup were wrenching. Hats off to you again. Fun watching people in this pre-smart phone era skedaddling out of camera view. That no longer happens!
Peter, thanks for this glimpse aboard Regent Sea. One has to try and be positive and look beyond the tacky furnishings and how the lovely smoke room was transformed into a casino, there was much aboard that still appeared to be original. I saw her when she was still Gripsholm when she made her very last call at Tilbury (for London) on 25th June 1975. She was on one of those long northern European cruises out of New York that Swedish American Line were so well known for. I saw her again a few years later, this time in Southampton, by which time she was Navarino, of Karageorgis Line. I was there to see friends off, they were sailing only as far as the Canary Islands but the ship was on her way to South Africa. I spent a very nice time on board enjoying her largely original interiors. That was the last time that I saw that beauty.
Always so happy to see you post here, Clive. So glad you enjoyed the video and agree about looking past the ugly upholstery, etc. There was still so much original beauty on board, even at this late point in her career. Sadly, it would all be destroyed in a year or so.
Another great video 😊
I worked on the Regent Sea 1991; Alaska, Panama Canal, South America.
She was, as built, one of the greatest beauties ever. A wonderful ship, even when she was in her final years.
Thanks again Peter. She was a fantastic ship. It is a shame they are all gone. I wonder what the career the Stockholm of 1940 would have had if it hadn’t been lost in the war. Happy Easter
Thank you so much, Frank. Appreciate your watching and posting.
Hey Pete! You may remember me from a previous video, I have some sad news, marine traffic reports the 70+ year old cruise ship Astoria (former Stockholm) is under the Portugese flag and is headed towards Alang, India this is a real shame to me because we already lost some vintage liners like the beautiful Marco Polo. At least she will continue to serve people is heaven.
Hi Random User. While she may eventually get sold for scrap, that report is not correct. She is still at Rotterdam laid up. All the best, Peter
@@midshipcinema Thank god!
ah man i missed it. But still this video is amazing. I love regent sea its sad she sank and scrap
Thanks so much -- glad you enjoyed the video. :)
You know it’s was probably love hate for him. Some mariners like to remember a ship as it was and not what it became. When I met the late Commodore Alexanderson at the museum at Fort Schuyler he said it was painful to see the SS United States in Philly. She was there but not really! My grandmother didn’t like the Regent Sea maybe cause she was a former rival to her beloved Norwegian America Line! She loved the Sea Princess for some reason, never understood her.
Very true but I think he loved her, regardless of her downtrodden stature.
It's very unfortunate that the Regent Sea sank, I wonder what would've happen to her if she didn't
She was on her way to be scrapped at Alang or Gadani Beach.
8:24 there’s her horn
2:28
Not sure if you know, Astoria is being beached at Alang on the 1st of May, I hope you can do a video on her before it is too late
Many thanks ASTORIA is still in Rotterdam. That info about beaching in Alang in two days is not only incorrect but impossible unless she is going to be delivered by spaceship. Just another rumor being spread about this old beauty. Hopefully, there is more life left in her. I have her fully documented and will tell her story one day, from top of house to shaft alley.
@@midshipcinema From my data, she left several days ago. It has 'apparently' been confirmed. But I'm not second guessing someone like you who knows so much about it all. I hope she lives a little longer
@@midshipcinema sorry to bother you again. She is confirmed to be en-route
@@pagmonreal By whom? The latest reports of her demise are as of yet rumors and are not confirmed. She is still tied up in Rotterdam. :)
@@midshipcinema What is your source that she is still in Rotterdam?
Peter, did you ever deck the Regent Sun?
was that the ss catalina at 8:13 before she sank?
Yes.
Any footage of viking serenade?
Just that glimpse. I have much more of the VS. Not my favorite ship by a long mile but may do something with it at some point down the road.
8:24
M.S Regent Sea Horn!!!!! OMG
Regent Sea’s voice is up there with one of the most rarest ship horns from the postmodern era. I appreciate this video for its history and interior shots and of course her lovely voice :)
Thank you. Why was her horn so rare?
@@midshipcinema I think the reason why it’s pretty rare is because before this video was uploaded, there were no other videos on CZcams where you were able to hear the voice of the Regent Sea. No one knew what it sounded like, but thanks to this video we are finally able to answer the question “What does the MV Regent Sea sound like?” I hope you understand :)
@@MaritimeNexus yea plus its my first time seeing footage of the ship because i rarely see her in films or footage
8:08
Another Horn Of M.S Viking Serenade?
Not in this video. It was an exchange between the pilot boat and the REGENT SEA. :)