Archive for August, 2008
Cruise History – Alaska Cruise Inside Passage Video – Alaska Steamship Company’s SS ALASKA Cruise – Retro Cruise Video – 1954
Thursday, August 28th, 2008To play video – press the above play (>) button in center of photo…
This is a wonderful 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 ship leaving [...]
Cruise Ship History – Historic Steamboat DELTA QUEEN may find new home in Natchez!
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Cruise Ship History – Historic Steamboat DELTA QUEEN may find new home in Natchez, Mississippi!
Courtesy of the NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT
By Brian Reynolds (Contact) | The Natchez Democrat
Published Monday, August 25, 2008
Natchez — When the Delta Queen’s congressional exemption ends on Oct. 31, its history will live on if the city of Alexandria has [...]
Cruise Ship History – Cruise Line History – Maritime History – Website devoted to “Cruising the Past” – Photos, stories and videos.
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Cruise Ship History – Cruise Line History – Maritime History – Website devoted to “Cruising the Past” – Photos, stories and videos.
Please note: The website is being updated and new entries will be made later in the month. Trust you enjoy the many postings available now. Visit the index archives or [...]
Cruise Ship History: Holland America Line’s VOLENDAM crossing the pond – from New York to Europe – in 1937.
Monday, August 11th, 2008Experience the Holland America Liner Volendam through color home movies shot aboard a crossing in 1937. Bon Voyage!
The SS VOLENDAM…
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Cruise Ship History – Wonderful youTUBE video of the Rex – The Italian Line’s great liner.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008Please note: The website is being updated and new entries will be made later in the month. Trust you enjoy the many postings available now. Visit the index archives or search for various ships and lines. Thanks, the Editors…
The Italian Line’s SS Rex, launched in 1931, held the westbound Blue Ribbon between 1933 and [...]
Cruise Ship History: THE MIOTTEL COLLECTION – “The mother lode of liner collections and tributes to the S.S. Normandie and any liner…” – History of the French Line’s SS NORMANDIE
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
“If there’s a better or more lovingly displayed collection of S.S. Normandie material in the world (and that includes France), I don’t know of it. What Crash has assembled here is nothing less than the history of a legend. For people interested in transatlantic shipping in general and the Normandie in particular, it is [...]
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 [...]
Cruise Ship History: Editor Michael L. Grace’s story on the tragic life of J. P. Morgan’s luxury yacht CORSAIR IV is featured on New York Social Diary.
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008The steamer yacht Corsair IV, built for J.P. Morgan Jr. in 1930, after its postwar conversion into a cruise ship in the Pacific.
THE TRAGIC LIFE OF CORSAIR IV as featured this week on New York Social Diary…
By Michael L. Grace
J. Pierpont Morgan Jr. could never have imagined his yacht Corsair IV being converted into a [...]