My Ship was in Rotterdam

Some weeks ago thanks to a comment done to one posting in this weblog when I was talking about my name and other "Oriana's" that I found out there, I discovered that ORIANA was suposed to be a ship (The Orient liner ss Oriana of 1959).




Oriana was the fastest ship ever to sail to Sydney, making the passage from Southampton via Suez in only twenty-one days. 1959

"It would be all to easy to bemoan her subsequent fate, however, unlike her much admired running mate Canberra, she has survived in spite of the odds. Luridly lit with neon and variously touted as the "Titanic of Huangpu River", the sister ship of the Queen Elizabeth, a "British imperial cruiser " and "one of the four most famous luxury boats of the contemporary world," the old gal now graces an otherwise undistinguished waterfront at Shanghai. "

That was already quite impressive, but more impressive, to imagine that somewhere, somehow there was a ship with my name, was the fact that some weeks ago I went out of my house and just realized that in fron of the bridge here in Rotterdam I could see ORIANA, LIFE VERSION.

It was just gorgeous and one of this cool moments I'll never forget from Rotterdam. Every day I realize that my name is not that random in the end.

My Ship!!! Rotterdam July 2005