Cagliari Sardinia Italy Photos
This page brings together the Cagliari, Sardinia photographs and M/V Maersk Alaska notes as their own travel page within the archive.
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Cagliari Sardinia, Italy / M/V Maersk Alaska — January 2006
Cagliari is the capital city of the Italian island of Sardinia. These January 2006 notes connect the port call with the M/V Maersk Alaska, a self-sustaining Container-RoRo vessel later sold to Ignazio Messina and renamed Jolly Nero. Cagliari is known for the hilltop Castello, a medieval walled quarter situated high over the rest of the town, along with Roman, medieval, and maritime history.
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Auditorium Comunale di Cagliari (Ex Collegio di Santa Teresa).
Ship Reference
The Maersk Alaska (IMO 7361233) was a US-flagged Container-RoRo ship built in 1976 by Blohm and Voss in Hamburg, Germany as Axel Maersk. She later sailed as Adrian Maersk, then Sp5 Eric J. Gibson, before becoming Maersk Alaska in 1999. The ship was self-sustaining with 40-ton cranes, carried about 1,730 TEU with 1,500 lane meters, and later had RoRo facilities. After service on US-Alaska routes, she was sold to Ignazio Messina and renamed Jolly Nero; under that later name, she was involved in the Port of Genoa pilot tower accident.