Floating bookshop to visit Subic free port
SUBIC FREEPORT—The popular floating bookshop m/v Doulos is set to visit this free port in December after undergoing dry dock maintenance in Batangas.
The Doulos, which had just come from Brunei last week, is now at a dry dock in Batangas and will proceed to this former United States naval base for a port call from Dec. 28 until Jan. 14, according to regional director Ronaldo Tiotuico of the Department of Tourism.
Tiotuico said one of the highlights of the Doulos’ port call here will be the traditional ‘‘International Festival’’ that its 350-member volunteer crew has held in about 100 countries for more than 17 million visitors.
The Doulos, which also visited Manila in January, is a boat owned by the German charity Gute Bücher für Alle (Good Books for All) and is used as a floating bookshop to promote international understanding and worldwide education.
The ship carries of over half a million books representing over 6,000 book titles and covering a wide range of subjects such as science, technology, sports, hobbies, cookery, the arts, and philosophy. A large selection of these books is devoted especially to the educational needs of schoolchildren.
While docked at a port, some of its multinational crew also hold humanitarian relief missions in areas of need and tragedy. This includes supplying material aid, renovating educational facilities, providing primary health care and donating educational literature to schoolchildren.
The Doulos, reputedly the world’s oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship, was built in 1914 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. for the Mallory Steamship Co. of the United States as a freighter serving the Atlantic route. She was then known as the m/v Medina.
During World War II, she served with the United States Coast Guard but was acquired by the Panamanian company Naviera San Miguel SA in 1948 and renamed the ship the SS Roma, a passenger ship with cabins for 287 people and dormitories for an additional 694 people.
In 1952 Naviera San Miguel resold the Roma to Linea Costa, an Italian company, which renamed it m/v Franca C which carried passengers between Italy and Argentina. In 1959, the Franca C was adapted into a cruise liner, principally cruising the Mediterranean.
In 1977, Gute Bücher für Alle acquired the Franca C, and renamed her the Doulos. In her current role, she is manned by a volunteer crew and visits sea ports world-wide, carrying the biggest floating library in the world. Rendy Isip - Manila Standard Today
The Doulos, which had just come from Brunei last week, is now at a dry dock in Batangas and will proceed to this former United States naval base for a port call from Dec. 28 until Jan. 14, according to regional director Ronaldo Tiotuico of the Department of Tourism.
Tiotuico said one of the highlights of the Doulos’ port call here will be the traditional ‘‘International Festival’’ that its 350-member volunteer crew has held in about 100 countries for more than 17 million visitors.
The Doulos, which also visited Manila in January, is a boat owned by the German charity Gute Bücher für Alle (Good Books for All) and is used as a floating bookshop to promote international understanding and worldwide education.
The ship carries of over half a million books representing over 6,000 book titles and covering a wide range of subjects such as science, technology, sports, hobbies, cookery, the arts, and philosophy. A large selection of these books is devoted especially to the educational needs of schoolchildren.
While docked at a port, some of its multinational crew also hold humanitarian relief missions in areas of need and tragedy. This includes supplying material aid, renovating educational facilities, providing primary health care and donating educational literature to schoolchildren.
The Doulos, reputedly the world’s oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship, was built in 1914 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. for the Mallory Steamship Co. of the United States as a freighter serving the Atlantic route. She was then known as the m/v Medina.
During World War II, she served with the United States Coast Guard but was acquired by the Panamanian company Naviera San Miguel SA in 1948 and renamed the ship the SS Roma, a passenger ship with cabins for 287 people and dormitories for an additional 694 people.
In 1952 Naviera San Miguel resold the Roma to Linea Costa, an Italian company, which renamed it m/v Franca C which carried passengers between Italy and Argentina. In 1959, the Franca C was adapted into a cruise liner, principally cruising the Mediterranean.
In 1977, Gute Bücher für Alle acquired the Franca C, and renamed her the Doulos. In her current role, she is manned by a volunteer crew and visits sea ports world-wide, carrying the biggest floating library in the world. Rendy Isip - Manila Standard Today
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