The SS Lurline docking at San Diego’s Broadway pier in the 1930s.
The SS Lurline was the third Matson vessel to hold that name and the last of four fast and luxurious ocean liners that Matson built for the Hawaii and Australasia runs from the West Coast of the United States. Lurline’s sister ships were SS Malolo, SS Mariposa and SS Monterey. [Read more...]
Our new video of a 1954 sailing aboard the SS ALASKA on a cruise to Alaska and the Inside Passage.
1954 ALASKA CRUISE from CRUISINGTHEPAST.COM on Vimeo.
1954 ALASKA CRUISE – a retro 50s look at a style of cruising and travel now vanished.
Video Includes: Views of the ship leaving the Port of Seattle, with streamers, confetti and visitors waving goodbye – something rarely scene today. See the ship sail up the inside passage… with passengers dancing, dining, playing shuffleboard and man nostalgic scenes of an Alaska steamship far different from the massive ships sailing the Inland Passage today. The Alaska Steamship Company operated passenger service from Seattle to all ports in Alaska from 1895 until 1954. During the summer weekly sailings visited the Inside Passage. The line challenged all kinds of winter conditions and operated year round offering regular sailings as far north as Nome. These are family films and footage taken during the 1920s through the 1950s.
