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Minghua (ship)
Minghua (simplified Chinese: 明华; traditional Chinese: 明華; pinyin: Mínghuá; Jyutping: ming4 waa4), formerly MV Ancerville, is a 1962 French liner later converted to a cruise ship. Now landlocked, she is the centerpiece of the Sea World development in Shekou, Shenzhen, China.
She was designed as a liner for the Compagnie de Navigation Paquet (CNP) to serve their Marseille to Dakar, Senegal route and built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Saint-Nazaire. She had a yacht like streamed profile and a unique accommodation arrangement. Her cabins were mostly located forward and the public rooms aft.
As built, she had three classes of accommodation, 171 first class, 342 second and 243 third class passengers. First and Second in cabins, Third class in 4 to 10 berth dormitories. All the Cabins and Dormitories were facing outside so all had portholes or windows. There were open and enclosed promenades, bars, restaurants, a smoking room, library, children's playroom, photo lab, laundry and theatre. There were also two swimming pools aft and a small one forward, although the latter was short-lived. She was fitted with anti rolling stabilizers and air conditioned throughout.
Her main engines were two Burmeister & Wain 12-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines with a 620mm bore and 900mm stroke fitted with Brown-Boveri turbochargers. Each engine rated at 12,000 bhp at 200 rpm driving two propellers. During sea trials she reached 25 Knots, her service speed was 22.5 Knots.
She was launched on 5 April 1962 by the French President, Charles de Gaulle and entered service 5 September 1962, with a cruise to the Canary Islands.
Her original name comes from the town of Ancerville, Meuse in North-East France, the birthplace of Nicolas Paquet, the founder of CNP.
Her usual route was from Marseille to Dakar lasting 6 days in each direction, calling at Casablanca and Tenerife on the outward voyage and Las Palmas and Casablanca again on the return, with sailings twice a month. She would occasionally make other stopovers en route at Alicante, Madeira or Tangiers. She also operated as a cruise ship during part of each year, increasingly so after 1970. When cruising, she was configured as a one class ship with passenger numbers limited to 500, the 3rd class dormitories were not used. Cruises were usually around the Mediterranean, West Africa and later South America.
In 1970 her ownership was transferred from Compagnie de Navigation Paquet to a sister company, Nouvelle Compagnie de Paquebots (NCP), but continued on her usual routes. In July 1970, Ancerville rescued all passengers and crew of the burning and sinking liner Fulvia near the Canary Islands. The MV Ancerville appears in two Senegalese films: Black Girl (1966) and Touki Bouki (1973).
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Minghua (ship)
Minghua (simplified Chinese: 明华; traditional Chinese: 明華; pinyin: Mínghuá; Jyutping: ming4 waa4), formerly MV Ancerville, is a 1962 French liner later converted to a cruise ship. Now landlocked, she is the centerpiece of the Sea World development in Shekou, Shenzhen, China.
She was designed as a liner for the Compagnie de Navigation Paquet (CNP) to serve their Marseille to Dakar, Senegal route and built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Saint-Nazaire. She had a yacht like streamed profile and a unique accommodation arrangement. Her cabins were mostly located forward and the public rooms aft.
As built, she had three classes of accommodation, 171 first class, 342 second and 243 third class passengers. First and Second in cabins, Third class in 4 to 10 berth dormitories. All the Cabins and Dormitories were facing outside so all had portholes or windows. There were open and enclosed promenades, bars, restaurants, a smoking room, library, children's playroom, photo lab, laundry and theatre. There were also two swimming pools aft and a small one forward, although the latter was short-lived. She was fitted with anti rolling stabilizers and air conditioned throughout.
Her main engines were two Burmeister & Wain 12-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines with a 620mm bore and 900mm stroke fitted with Brown-Boveri turbochargers. Each engine rated at 12,000 bhp at 200 rpm driving two propellers. During sea trials she reached 25 Knots, her service speed was 22.5 Knots.
She was launched on 5 April 1962 by the French President, Charles de Gaulle and entered service 5 September 1962, with a cruise to the Canary Islands.
Her original name comes from the town of Ancerville, Meuse in North-East France, the birthplace of Nicolas Paquet, the founder of CNP.
Her usual route was from Marseille to Dakar lasting 6 days in each direction, calling at Casablanca and Tenerife on the outward voyage and Las Palmas and Casablanca again on the return, with sailings twice a month. She would occasionally make other stopovers en route at Alicante, Madeira or Tangiers. She also operated as a cruise ship during part of each year, increasingly so after 1970. When cruising, she was configured as a one class ship with passenger numbers limited to 500, the 3rd class dormitories were not used. Cruises were usually around the Mediterranean, West Africa and later South America.
In 1970 her ownership was transferred from Compagnie de Navigation Paquet to a sister company, Nouvelle Compagnie de Paquebots (NCP), but continued on her usual routes. In July 1970, Ancerville rescued all passengers and crew of the burning and sinking liner Fulvia near the Canary Islands. The MV Ancerville appears in two Senegalese films: Black Girl (1966) and Touki Bouki (1973).
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