Built as a passenger vessel under yard No 728 by John Brown and Co, (Clydebank) Ltd, Clydebank, U.K. for the A/B Svenska Amerika Linien, Gothenburg, Sweden.
02 January 1964 keel laid down.
14 April 1965, launched under the name KUNGSHOLM.
Tonnage 26.678 gross, 13.842 net, 5.572 dwt., dim. 201.23 x 26.57 x 15.42m., draught 8.56m.
Powered by two 9-cyl. S.C. SA oil engines, manufactured by A/B Götaverken, Göteborg, 25.200bhp, speed 19.5 knots, twin screws.
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Passenger accommodation for 108 first and 642 tourist passengers, when on the North Atlantic liner service, when cruising accommodation for 450 passengers in one class. Crew 430.
17 March 1966 delivered to owners.
22 April 1966 sailed for her maiden voyage from Göteborg to New York.
From 1968 mostly used for cruising with a few North Atlantic crossings.
August 1975 Sold to Flagship Cruises Ltd., Liberia, and handed over on 06 October, thereafter cruising from New York.
Tonnage 18.174 gross.
14 January 1978 grounded at Port France, Martinique, refloated 19 January 1978.
05 September 1978 Sold to Finance for Shipping Ltd., London, and leased to P&O Cruises Ltd. (P&O Passenger Division.)
15 January 1979 renamed in SEA PRINCESS, tonnage increased to 27.670 gross ton.
26 January 1979 taken over by P&O at the Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau und Maschinenfabrik, Vegesack, West Germany, where she was refitted, and passenger accommodation increased with 80 cabins to 750 passengers.
Her forward funnel was removed and aft funnel enlarged.
16 February 1979 her first voyage after her refit with paying guests was from Hong Kong to Sydney, thereafter cruising in the Far East and Australian waters.
1982 Passenger accommodation increased by Vosper Ltd. at Southampton to 840 passengers. Then used for cruising in European waters.
1984 Registered under Investors in Industry Plc.
11 February 1986 P&O Lines appointed as managers.
1995 renamed in VICTORIA.
1999 Chartered by Union Castle Line for a Millennium round Africa voyage, making calls at many of the old Union Castle ports. Her funnel was painted in the old Union Castle colours.
After her return in 2000 at Southampton returned to the P&O and funnel again painted in the P&O colour.
Spring 2001 P&O Cruises decided to retire the VICTORIA and she was bought by an Italian investment group, with a charter back to the P&O until November 2002.
The actual buyer, however was Captain Paris Katsoufis, Miamy based Kyma Ship Management Inc.
After the P&O charter expired he arranged a charter with the German tour operator Holiday Kreuzfahrten for five years.
After a rebuilding in Genoa, Italy renamed in 2002 in MONA LISA, she features a funnel mural depicting the Mona Lisa. She is owned then by Leonardo Shipping at Miami Fl., and managed by Technical Marine at Piraeus, Greece.
20 December 2002 she sailed out for her first cruise for Holiday Kreuzfahrten from Genoa, can carry maximum 782 passengers in 389 cabins. Crew 436.
25 July 2003 during a Norwegian cruise she damaged her hull and propellers in the Magdalen Fjord, Spitsbergen.
12 May 2004 she grounded by entering the port of Venice, but was refloated the same day with the help of tugs. Not any damage or injures reported at the time.
October 2006 laid up at Piraeus, Greece.
01 November 2006 chartered for floating hotel ship at Qatar, sailed the next day from Piraeus for Qatar.
20 November 2006 till 01 January 2007 in use as a floating hotel for the Asian Games at Qatar.
2007 Chartered by Pullmantur Cruises, Spain for cruises in the Mediterranean.
April 2007 Renamed in OCEANIC II.
April 2007 till 28 May 2007 chartered by Louis Cruise Lines.
September 2007 chartered by “The Scholar Ship” (Royal Caribbean International) as a floating university vessel.
23 April 2008 Renamed in MONA LISA.
04 May 2008 on a voyage to Riga and Tallinn she grounded on a sandbank.
07 May refloated and for survey to a shipyard in Ventspils.
08 May 2008 in service again after not any damage was found.
http://www.equasis.org gives in 2008: Bahamas registered. IMO No. 6512354. Call sign C6RU6. Gross tonnage 28.891 ton.
On Germany 1970 20pf sg 1528 under the name KUNGSHOLM.
On Barbados 1984 $1 sg 753 as SEA PRINCESS.
On St Helena 2000 $2 sg ? as VICTORIA.
Source: North Atlantic Seaways. Great Passengers Ships of the World. P&O a fleet history. Sea Breeze
April 2000. Marine News.