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Thursday, May 13th, 2010HISTORY OF CRUISING – FROM THE 1830s TO THE LOVE BOAT: History of Cruising – Cruise Ship History
The earliest ocean-going vessels were not primarily concerned with passengers, but rather with the cargo that they could carry. Black Ball Line in New York, in 1818, was the first shipping company to offer regularly scheduled service from [...]
The RMS Empress of Ireland sinking resulted in the deaths of more passengers than the RMS Titanic disaster.
Monday, August 17th, 2009The RMS Empress of Ireland sinking resulted in the deaths of more passengers than the RMS Titanic disaster.
Why has the RMS Empress of Ireland tragedy been forgotten? The sinking of the RMS Empress Of Ireland hit Canada hard and was the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history. Occurring just two years after the RMS [...]
World War II Canadian Pacific Railway Coastal Night Boat Schedule.
Monday, May 25th, 2009World War II Canadian Pacific Princess Lines Schedule issued in 1944. Memorial Day cruising the past looks at probably the only coastal passengers ships operating during World War II. Seattle residents were fortunate because they could head north to Victoria and Vancouver by boat. These schedules show operations between Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria. Many of [...]
More passenger lives were lost on the 1914 sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland than the RMS Titanic.
Monday, May 11th, 2009Cruise History: More passenger lives were lost on the the 1914 sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland than the RMS Titanic. The story of the Canadian Pacific liner is not well known, since World War I broke out only a month later. Try asking someone, “Have you heard of the Empress of [...]
When ships had passenger lists.
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Cruise History: Looking back at passenger lists – “the bible” of travelers aboard the great liners and cruise ships.
Passenger lists were given to all those booked aboard liners and cruise ships up until the 1970s.
From Cunard to the French Line, the Lurline to the Queen Mary – these were an important source of information regarding [...]
Cruise Ship History: Memories of an Empress – Canadian Pacific’s Big White Ships
Monday, December 29th, 2008This nostalgic and highly detailed painting by Gordon Bauwens shows the liner anchored off Greenock in 1960.
The family of a serving officer watch from the Esplanade as the liner Empress of Britain, attended by a Clyde puffer, prepares for her imminent transatlantic departure. The turbine steamer Queen Mary II on a day-cruise ‘doon the watter’ [...]
Cruise History: Michael L. Grace’s story on the RMS EMPRESS OF JAPAN – Canadian Pacific’s “Blue Ribbon Holder” – The fastest ship on the Pacific and a liner with four life’s. From Empress of Japan to World War 2 vessel to Empress of Scotland to the Hanseatic.
Monday, August 4th, 2008More wonderful moments in cruise line and cruise ship history. The RMS Empress of Japan had four life’s. First as the trans-Pacific record holder liner, then serving during World War 2, followed by being renamed the Empress of Scotland on the trans-Atlantic run and then finally sailing under the German flag. It was ironic, the [...]
CANADIAN PACIFIC’S “EMPRESS OF RUSSIA” FEATURED IN FAMOUS 1933 JAPANESE FILM – Scenes of the EMPRESS OF RUSSIA sailing from Yokohama in the 1930s
Monday, June 9th, 2008This is the first in a series of steamships and cruise ships from the past featured in films or television.
These are scenes of Canadian Pacific’s liner EMPRESS OF RUSSIA leaving Yokohama, Japan, from Shimizu Hiroshi’s MINATO NO NIHON MUSUME (Japanese Girls at the Harbor) filmed in 1933. Until security restrictions in the 1990s, there [...]
CRUISE LINE HISTORY – “ALL ASHORE THAT’S GOING ASHORE” – A GREAT NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO ON THE GREAT LINERS
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Ocean liners were the primary mode of global travel for over a century, from the mid-19th century until they began to be supplanted by jet airliners in the 1960s. A wonderful new youTUBE video.
S.S. PRINCESS MARGURITE from Seattle to Victoria – 1960s…
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Canadian Pacific’s S.S. Princess Marguerite steaming to Victoria, B.C., Canada. The ship is sailing on the day run from Seattle, Washington, in the 1960s. Trial Island is seen in the background. The Canadian Pacific’s princess liners provided service between Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle. The small liners were called “night boats” and offered first class [...]
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