AMERICAN EXPORT LINES
Labor Day – SS United States, SS America and SS Constitution
Saturday, September 5th, 2009Labor Day – SS United States, SS America and SS Constitution – From our collection of photos – busy liners – New York City in the 1950s:
SS United States (US Lines) sailing from New York Harbor.
SS America (US lines) docked in New York.
SS Constitution (American Export Lines) docked in New York.
Cruise History: American Export Line’s SS CONSTITUTION. The trans-Atlantic ship was featured in “I Love Lucy” and in the classic film “An Affair To Remember” – the famous liner also carried Grace Kelly from New York to Europe where she would go from American movie star to Princesse de Monaco.
Saturday, January 3rd, 20091955: Officers and crew assemble aboard the SS Constitution docked in Manhattan.
The SS Constitution was a passenger ship owned by American Export Lines. She was commissioned in 1951. She sailed on the New York-Genoa-Naples and Gibraltar route to Europe. The Constitution was a sister ship to the SS Independence. The ships were two of [...]
Cruise History – The Last Ocean Liners: When you could go around the world by taking a liner voyage and not a cruise!
Monday, December 15th, 2008
American Export Line’s SS CONSTITUTION
Courtesy of a wonderful website called LAST OCEAN LINERS
Until the early 1970s, it was routinely possible to schedule extensive world journeys by transferring between three, four or more different ocean liners on point-to-point line voyages. The services were promoted to take advantage of a coordinated system of fares and schedules [...]