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« Previous EntriesHolland America Line’s MS NIEUW AMSTERDAM carries on liner and cruise history of the famed cruise line.
Friday, July 30th, 2010Holland America Line’s MS NIEUW AMSTERDAM carries on liner and cruise history of the famed cruise line.
Launched from Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Venice on July 4, 2010, the 86,000-ton Nieuw Amsterdam celebrates the glamour and history of New York City, formerly called Nieuw Amsterdam, with its inspired interior design and art collection.
Holland [...]
ALCOA TO THE CARIBBEAN
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Social and Travel History: Alcoa to the Caribbean. When ALCOA operated three passenger cargo liners to the West Indies. Modern ships – elegant yet casual service. A look to the cruising past.
Because of shipping shortages in World War I, Alcoa (formerly the Aluminum Company of America) developed its own shipping line to carry bauxite from [...]
THE FIRST CRUISE SHIP WAS A “PRINCESS”: – The Prinzessin Victoria Luise was the world’s first cruise ship.
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010THE FIRST CRUISE SHIP WAS A “PRINCESS”: – The Prinzessin Victoria Luise was the world’s first cruise ship.
The Prinzessin Victoria Luise was the world’s first cruise ship.
Cruise Ship History and Cruising The Past – The Prinzessin Victoria Luise was the world’s first cruise ship. Built for the Hamburg America Line, she was launched [...]
Cruise Line History and Social History– PANAMA PACIFIC LINES finished – New York to California via Havana and the Panama Canal – From 1938 TIME MAGAZINE
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Many American flag steamship lines — APL, Matson, Moore-McCormick, Grace, etc. — faced a similar fate as Panama Pacific Lines did when the US withdrew their mail and operating subsidies to carry military personnel in the 1960s. The same fate happened to the American railway system in the late 1960s when the US withdrew railway [...]
HISTORY OF THE CUNARD LINE
Friday, May 28th, 2010Social History: History of The Cunard Line
Cunard Line was the only company to continue regular transatlantic ocean crossings by liners after the 1970s. The French Line, Italian Line, the United States Line had gone out of business. Swedish America Line, Holland America Line along with Home Lines continued but only operating cruise ships. Liner service [...]
GREAT VIDEO BY CRUISE ENTERTAINERS – WHAT YOU DON’T SEE!
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Instead of those boring shows presented by the cruise lines – the ship’s should rely on their entertainers. This is a great video of cast members doing their own show instead of the slop created by dreary “stars” like Barry Manilow.
All those cruise lines advertise what great times the passengers are having. They’re [...]
A HISTORY OF SHIPBOARD EDUCATION – MV EXPLORER – 1910 TO 2010
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Holland-America Line History – In 1926 the University World Cruise set out from the New York harbor (Hoboken) aboard the Holland America Line Ryndam for a seven month odyssey that visited 35 countries
A History of Shipboard Education
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Nearly 100 years ago, the idea for a floating university [...]
Titanic History – TITANIC the movie vs. TITANIC the sinking.
Monday, February 8th, 2010TITANIC THE MOVIE vs RMS TITANIC THE SINKING. Titanic ( released – 1997) – Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Bill Paxton, Billy Zane based a screenplay by director James Cameron, whose fictional love story is intertwined with a chronicle of the April 1912 Titanic sinking.
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THE LAST VOYAGE – THE MS STELLA POLARIS – the most famous cruise ship of all time.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010THE LAST VOYAGE – THE MS STELLA POLARIS – the most famous cruise ship of all time.
THE MS STELLA POLARIS: A great video of the last voyage of the most famous cruise ship of the thirties, the inter war years and probably even in the history of cruising.
The ship was considered one of the most [...]
“CATCHER IN THE RYE” AUTHOR J. D. SALINGER, DEAD AT 91, SERVED AS CRUISE DIRECTOR ABOARD SWEDISH AMERICA LINE’S MS KUNGSHOLM.
Thursday, January 28th, 2010MS KUNGSHOLM on Carribean Cruise – by 1941, with the war in Europe, most liners were not crossing the Atlantic.
For the following informain we wish to thank Lars Hemingstam and his excellent website on the Swedish American Line – click here to visit.
“The young man—his name was Ray Kinsella, and he was a [...]