What's in a name, part 2. Or would this be better in RED?

If you have read my blog before your will have seen a previous article 'What's in a name', but that made me think about ships names and whether they change.

Would this be better in RED?

Got you thinking now, so read on....

My article was about the way some companies change the name of their products after launch to match their requirements and wondered whether the cruise lines did the same. Well, the easy answer is yes and not always after launch.

So one for the memory, Renaissance Cruises a company which folded some time ago and where are their 8 ships now? Well, 2 are with Azamara Club Cruises and 3 are with Oceania Cruises and have all been renamed, no surprise there you say if a ship moves from one line to another the name will change.

But what about the other 3, well they all went to Princess Cruises and were named Tahitian, Royal and Pacific Princess. However now, Royal Princess is P&O's Adonia and to suit the type of cruise that the ship does Tahitian Princess has become the Ocean Princess; but there was an Ocean Princess now P&O Oceana!

Gets more complicated with Sea Princess, which was launched as this in 1998 but in 2003 transferred to P&O and named Adonia, but transferring back to Princess in 2005 becoming again Sea Princess. All because of movements of ships to Ocean Village and waiting for the delivery of Arcadia in 2005.

What about the strange case of Diamond and Sapphire Princess, or is it Sapphire and Diamond Princess? 

With the Diamond Princess, the ship's hull was originally due to be called the Sapphire Princess, however during construction a huge fire swept through the ships deck during construction. Because the ship's completion would be delayed for some time, her sister ship, Diamond Princess,  which was being constructed at the same time assumed the role of the Sapphire. This name swap helped to keep the delivery date of the Sapphire on time, while delaying the delivery of the Diamond....... Follow that if you can!

So why the picture above, if you have not yet guessed it is P&O Arcadia. When the keel was originally laid she was due to be Queen Victoria but close to launch was transferred to P&O as Arcadia, so she has a funnel which is more Cunard like than P&O like.

So the answer to the question of 'What's in a name', is nothing in reality as ships are transferred or have name changes based on the capacity needs of the cruise lines, so we shouldn't really get attached should we?

And would that funnel look better in Red, having sailed on both ships I do think that Carnival have got it right with both ships now having the correct corporate feel to them.

Which is my favourite, well out of the 2 it has to be Queen Victoria.