Ahoy there! Moored at Queen’s Wharf is a piece of maritime history. Built in 1914, two years after the Titanic, it’s MVDoulos - officially the world’s oldest ocean-going passenger ship. Nicknamed “the floating United Nations”, Doulos is home to 350 crew and volunteers from fifty different countries.
The ship is owned by a charitable Christian company called “Good Books For All” (which is what the letters GBA on the ship’s funnel stands for). At every port the Dolous visits they hold a book fair where they try to sell books and CDs for the cheapest price possible. The current sale has over 6,000 titles. Crew members from the different countries also offer amazing tours of the ship.
Doulos will be in port until July 23 as part of a farewell tour. Sadly, new maritime regulations mean that, after almost 100 years, the Doulos has to be taken out of action in 2010 
So don’t miss out on the tours and various programmes offered by the ‘Doulosians’ these holidays.
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