Usually ships have emblems or flags painted on their funnels. Not in the case of the cruise liner Mona Lisa which has a massive copy of Leonardo da Vinci's world famous painting on her funnel.
This classic ocean liner arrived for a cruise call and anchored in the Cross Channel on her Round Britain cruise that began from Bremerhaven.
British built at John Brown's on the Clyde in 1976 as the Kungsholm for Swedish America Lines she is an impressive ship. P&O bought her in 1979 renaming the ship Sea Princess. Then she transferred back into the P&O Cruises fleet as the Victoria.
The German company Holiday Kreuzfahrten now charter the ship. She ran aground in Spitsbergen during her first trip with her new Greek owners in 2002 sustaining bottom and propeller damage.
Earlier this year she grounded again in Venice when in thick fog she ran out of the channel.
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