Cruise & Maritime Voyages

From: European Cruise Guide

ABOVE: The Marco Polo, formerly the Soviet liner Alexandr Pushkin, at sea.

Cruise & Maritime Voyages is a privately-owned British cruise line that has offered "no fly" cruises from the UK for the last three years. The line has two ships:

• Marco Polo, a former Soviet ocean liner of Baltic Shipping Lines that entered service in 1965 and was rebuilt as a cruise ship in the 1990s. (We crossed from Bremerhaven to Montreal on the Pushkin in 1978. We were accompanied by our Old English Sheepdog, Muffin, and our Wire-Haired Fox Terrier, Yodel, who stayed in a large doghouse when they weren't enjoying the Sun Deck with the passengers and Soviet crew).

• Discovery, a 700-passenger ship that is being chartered from Voyages of Discovery for the 2013 season. Discovery entered service in 1972 and had a major refit in the early 2000s.

In 2013, Cruise & Maritime Voyages has an extensive calendar of cruises from London Tilbury, Newcastle, Liverpool, Hull, Harwich,  Edinburgh Leith, and Bristol Avonmouth. Destinations include ports in the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Baltic, Southern Europe, and the Canaries.

Cruise line's Web site:

Cruise & Maritime Voyages

Photo copyright © Orient Lines.