Archive for February, 2008
« Previous EntriesCRUISE LINE HISTORY – The French Line’s SS FRANCE and SS LIBERTE on youTUBE…
Thursday, February 28th, 2008From the 1960s… home movie crossing the “pond” from New York to Europe and return…
Cruise Lines are Liars… the ship’s crews always have more fun…
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008This site just isn’t about the past…
And the following youTUBE video proves the crews are always having more fun. This was shot aboard the Norwegian Sun.
All those cruise lines advertise what great times the passengers are having. They’re wrong. You use to be able to hang out with crew. No more.
Most [...]
SS ATLANTIC – AMERICAN BANNER LINES – From a failed pioneering tourist liner to a celebrated university at sea…
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008American Banner Lines 1957-1958
Arnold Bernstein chartered in the summer of 1948 a passenger ship the CONTINENTAL (ex ANCON of 1902) for four round voyages from New York to Plymouth and Antwerp. In 1950-1951 Arnold Bernstein was involved with the Incres Line and their ship the EUROPA (ex MONGOLIA of 1923). She spent two seasons running [...]
CRUISE LINE HISTORY
Monday, February 25th, 2008The History of Cruising…
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 United States to England and to be concerned with the comfort of [...]
SS UNITED STATES – 1960s back stage tribute to the crews that served this famous liner…
Monday, February 25th, 2008There are no American cruise ships flying the US flag. They went the way of the American auto industry.
S.S. LA MARSEILLAISE – Messageries Maritimes’ “Orient & Indo China” route… from Saigon to the depths of Grenada…
Monday, February 25th, 2008Messageries Maritimes’ flag-ship ended up like mini-Titanic… read on…
MM ship leaving Saigon
Dating from 1862, Messageries Maritimes’ “Orient & Indo China” route was its premier route, serving as it did the Jewel in France’s Crown in the East: Indo-China.
Saigon during the golden age before the endless and [...]
SS UNITED STATES – “First Lady of the Seas…”
Sunday, February 24th, 2008This is a youtube video of SS UNITED STATES including song “First Lady of the Sea” written by Meyer Davis. Davis was a society orchestra leader out of New York. His dance bands performed on most of the American steamship lines operating out of New York. Including the US Lines, Moore-McCormack, Grace [...]
SS UNITED STATES nostalgic YOUTUBE newsreel and film of the famous American liner…
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008CLICK ON POSTCARD OF THE SS UNITED STATES TO VIEW A WONDERFUL NEWSREEL OF THE FAMOUS SHIP…
ELDER DEMPSTER LINES
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Here are a few pages of a wonderful site dealing with the Elder Demster Lines. The ship is the AUREOL… flagship of EDL.
Elder Dempster Lines was one of the UK’s largest shipping companies, and during its 150 year history it operated more than 500 ships. Based in the historic port of [...]