Archive for February, 2010
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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 [...]
SS ATLANTIC – AMERICAN BANNER LINES – From a failed pioneering tourist liner to a celebrated university at sea.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Cruise History – Steamship History – SS ATLANTIC – AMERICAN BANNER LINES – From a failed pioneering tourist liner to a celebrated university at sea.
American 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. [...]
Airships: A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History Site is honored as Cruising the Past’s Website of the Month.
Friday, February 19th, 2010The Hindenburg at Lakehurst , New Jersey. Nazi colors – months before its fatal crash.
Airships: A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History Site is honored as Cruising the Past’s Website of the Month. The Hindenburg was the “Titanic” of the sky.
Dan Grossman’s excellent website – www.airships.net – features the best historical look at this fascinating area [...]
FINNISH LAKE STEAMER SS TARJANNE
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Cruise History – Steamship History: FINNISH LAKE STEAMER SS TARJANNE
Great YOUTUBE video of the Lake steamer Tarjanne
Lake steamer Tarjanne was launched in May 1908 and still today sails the same route through Näsijärvi lake to the town of Virrat.
Tarjanne Näsijärvi has served passengers and freight. Today, the ship operates on alternate days between the Tampere [...]
Is the former Cunard Line QE 2 up for sale again?
Friday, February 12th, 2010Is the former Cunard Line Queen Elizabeth II (known as the QE 2) up for sale again?
The QE2. Will she end up as a hotel or sent to India to be scrapped? As Dubai goes broke – we look at more steamship history.
When Cunard began operating the Queen Mary 2, the venerable Queen Elizabeth [...]
Brief History of the Passenger Ship and Cruise Industry
Friday, February 12th, 2010Cruising the Past – History of Passenger Ships – History of the Cruise Industry
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, Advertisement in 1818, was the first shipping company to offer regularly scheduled service from the United States [...]
RMS QUEEN MARY AND THE BLUE RIBBON
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Cunard Line History: RMS QUEEN MARY AND THE BLUE RIBBON
RMS QUEEN MARY – Edges Up in Race For Blue Ribbon, POV plane Queen Mary sailing on ocean. We see inside the bridge, operating signal to engine room, officers at map table, tugboats pushing it into dock and MS ship’s commander. A glimpse of [...]
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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TITANIC HISTORY – THE ONLY EXISTING FILM FOOTAGE OF THE TRAGIC LINER
Sunday, February 7th, 2010TITANIC HISTORY – The history of the RMS Titanic – Cunard History
TITANIC HISTORY – THE ONLY EXISTING FILM FOOTAGE OF THE TRAGIC LINER
PART 1 – EXCELLENT TITANIC DOCUMENTARY
PART 2 – EXCELLENT TITANIC DOCUMENTARY
The history of the RMS Titanic has enthralled the world quite unlike any other shipwreck known to man. A number of books, articles [...]
Holland-America Line History – SS NIEUW AMSTERDAM – THE MOST GRACIOUS OF ALL THE TRANSATLANTIC LINERS.
Friday, February 5th, 2010Holland-America Line History – SS NIEUW AMSTERDAM – THE MOST GRACIOUS OF ALL THE TRANSATLANTIC LINERS.
Queen Wilhelmina launches the Nieuw Amsterdam in the late 1930s. Video includes newsreel footage of the pre-war liner. Along with a trans-Atlantic crossing from Holland to New York. Then shots of the ship during WW II. [...]
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