Strand Voyages

From: European Cruise Guide

ABOVE: A tramp steamer. INSET BELOW: An owner's suite on a freighter, and the THV Patricia of Trinity House.

Strand Voyages, "the first name in freighter travel," has been booking passengers on tramp steamers, containerships, bulk carriers, and other cargo vessels since 1987. The parent company, Strand Travel, is a full-service travel agency. This allows Strand Voyages to customize freighter-based travel itineraries that include ship passage, flights, hotels, etc.

Strand also books passengers onto THV Patricia, the flagship of Trinity House (the UK's General Lighthouse Authority), which services offshore lighthouses, lightships, and navigational buoys and handles maritime emergencies along the coasts of England, Wales, and the Channel Islands.

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Strand Voyages

Photos copyright © Strand Travel. Used by permission.

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