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THE SS SANTA MARIA IS LAND LOCKED – GRACE LINE – 1930s
By Michael L. Grace | September 14, 2009
Cruise Ship History: The SS Santa Maria – a Grace Line ship – seems land locked while docked in New York. Grace Line operated year round service to the Caribbean and South America into the 1970s.
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November 30th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Sorry, guys, that is NEITHER the SANTA MARIA nor a Grace Line vessel. Rather, the ship pictured is the SANTA MARTA, one of thirteen similar ships, the “5,000 ton” class of the United Fruit Company. I wrote extensively of that class of ship in my 1993 book “GOING BANANAS” 100 Year of American Fruit Ships in the Caribbean, Vol. 3 of my American Merchant Marine History Series. Pretty ship, nonetheless!