ALASKA STEAMSHIP LINES
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Wednesday, March 10th, 20101950s ALASKA CRUISE – Retro August 1954 look at the final days of the Alaska Steamship Company with a history of the famous organization that provided passenger service to the far north.
A fond farewell. The SS Denali ends the era of passenger service for the Alaska Steamship Company as she makes her final departure and [...]
1954 VIDEO CRUISE TO ALASKA – During the last year of the Alaska Steamship Company’s Passenger Operation.
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010alaska steamship company, ss alaska, inside passage, retro look at cruising, ships and the sea, passenger cruises, videos, cruise history
SS UNTIED STATES – New York wants the great ship to return. Great video of sailing on a cruise to the West Indies during 1964.
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Proposal to bring the SS UNITED STATES back to Manhattan.
Cruise Ship History: More steamship history with a video cruise aboard the SS United States. In 1964, former SS United States purser Jim Green returned to the ship as a passenger for a West Indies cruise along with his beloved wife Frieda. Here, set to the [...]
1950s ALASKA CRUISE – Retro August 1954 look at the final days of the Alaska Steamship Company
Wednesday, July 29th, 20091950s ALASKA CRUISE – Retro August 1954 look at the final days of the Alaska Steamship Company with a history of the famous organization that provided passenger service to the far north.
A fond farewell. The SS Denali ends the era of passenger service for the Alaska Steamship Company as she makes her final departure and [...]
Cruising The Past and Cruise Ship History features the maritime art of James A. Flood.
Sunday, July 12th, 2009RMS TITANIC at 1:00 AM – Lifeboat, rockets and the sinking liner by James A. Flood.
Cruising The Past and Cruise Ship History features the maritime art of James A. Flood.
His website features paintings of ships (RMS Titanic, SS Lurline, SS Rex, etc.).
There are ships biographies and photographs of some of his hand-built ship models.
Jim is [...]
Cruise Line History – July 4th menus featuring “Russian Caviar” and “Kangoroo Tail Soup” on the High Seas from 1900 until 1938 – aboard the SS Manhattan, SS Aleutian and the SS City of Rome.
Saturday, July 4th, 2009Cruise Line History – July 4th trans-Atlantic liner and Alaska cruise ship dinner menus from the past… featuring “Russian Caviar” and “Kangoroo Tail Soup” on the High Seas from 1900 until 1938 – aboard the SS Manhattan, SS Aleutian and the SS City of Rome.
Anchor Line’s SS CITY OF ROME – July 4th Menu – [...]
ALASKA CRUISE VIDEO – 1954 – $9.00 PER DAY
Thursday, June 11th, 20091954 ALASKA CRUISE from CRUISINGTHEPAST.COM on Vimeo.
ALASKA CRUISE – 1954 – $9.00 PER DAY. Cruising The Past presents an historical video of a 1954 sailing aboard the SS ALASKA on a cruise to Alaska and the Inside Passage. A retro 50s look at a style of cruising and travel now vanished. Views of the [...]
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 [...]
J. Pierpont Morgan’s yacht Corsair IV became a cruise ship to Mexico.
Friday, May 22nd, 2009J. Pierpont Morgan Jr. could never have imagined his yacht Corsair IV being converted into a deluxe cruise ship whose short career would end in tragedy but it happened on a sailing from California to Acapulco in 1949.
J.P. Morgan Jr. and his legendary business tycoon father, J. Pierpont Morgan, made cruise history, owning four magnificent [...]
Part One – Handbook of American-flag passenger ships in 1955.
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009In 1955 America’s fleet of ocean-going passenger ships was fast diminishing. The year before, Alaska Steamship Lines had gone out of business with the loss of four passenger ships and the Bull Line serving Puerto Rico laid up their last passenger ship. In examining cruise ship history in 1955, there were still 40 active [...]
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