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Old 11-08-14, 07:25 AM
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Default QUEEN OF THE ISLES Imo 6501783

QUEEN OF THE ISLES,1965, - Isles of Scilly SS Co Ltd, GBR Scilly. 529 grt x Hill & Sons, C.,Bristol.

Pool of London,21/6/1969.

Subsequent History:71 OLOVAHA - 82 GULF EXPLORER - 87 QUEEN OF THE ISLES - 94 ISLAND PRINCESS - 94 WESTERN QUEEN

Disposal Data:derelict at Honiara, Solomon Is by 2001

Rick Cox collection,unknown photographer.
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Remember this vessel very well and even took out a 4 hour flight from Melbourne to Cairns at the time (1987) whilst the vessel was handed over to Royal Tropic Cruise Line.
Also saw the vessel in Auckland few years prior to this when she was named GULF EXPLORER
Some more details to follow later.
Meanwhile hereby some photos and I guess I may also use the photo ex Rick since he has not got the source.
For those who are interested:
www.queenoftheisles.com
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Jan
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Old 18-08-14, 10:58 AM
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Going back a few years now, then I received following story from Andy who also controls the website as mentioned earlier.

quoted as follows:
Queen of the Isles/Olovaha/Gulf Explorer/Western Queen
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I hope this excellent site and its visitors can help me with a little project!

Back in 1989 I worked as purser on the Queen of the Isles, a mini cruise ship doing 5 day runs up and down the Barrier Reef between Cairns and Thursday Island.
I have very fond memories of those days and it prompted me to create a little project to track the old Queen's history.

In a nutshell, it's as follows:

Built 1964 by Charles Hill
Sailed between Penzance and the Scilly Isles (+ charters) as QUEEN OF THE ISLES
Sold (donated) to Tonga in 1970, name changed to OLOVAHA
Bought by Trans Tours/Greyline to be a floating Casino in NZ, as GULF EXPLORER around 1980
Sold to cruise the Barrier Reef in 1986 back as QUEEN OF THE ISLES
May/may not have had a short stint as ISLAND PRINCESS
Ended up in the Solomons as WESTERN QUEEN in 1993
Ran aground in a cyclone in 1997....

And there she still sits, on Ranadi Beach just east of Honiara.

Full story is on my website

www.queenoftheisles.com

Anyway, reason for the post is to see if there are any more crew out there who served in any of her different lives.
It would be great to hear from you and to get the chance to keep developing the site!
I've had some great feedback already and it would nice to see it develop further.
Cheers
Andy
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you will find a series of photos on the website which is quite interesting.
Jan
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