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Murder At Sea Aboard A Carnival Cruise To Mexico and a liner voyage aboard Union Castle Lines in the 1947 – Where are re-runs of The Love Boat when you need them?

Cruising the Past and Cruise Ship History. Murder At Sea Aboard A Carnival Cruise To Mexico and another aboard Union Castle Lines in the 1947 – Where are re-runs of The Love Boat when you need them?

Murders aboard cruise ships and liners are nothing new. This one happened last week on Carnival and another one took place aboard a Union Castle decades ago.

Where are re-runs of The Love Boat when you most need them? Cruise travelers these days have never had it so difficult, what with the threat of possible Norovirus and Swine Flu outbreaks, not to mention the occasional occurrence of people mysteriously falling overboard. The latest news, that a man has stabbed his wife to death this week while onboard the Carnival ship Elation, doesn’t threaten the whole ship but it does make for one creepy cruise. [Read more...]

Murder, suspicious deaths and disappearing at sea aboard liners and cruiseships of the past.

Actress Gay Gibson, the victim, steward James Camb, the killer and the “death ship” Durban Castle. A first class passage from South Africa that turned from lust to murder aboard a cruise ship of the past.

Murder, suspicious deaths and disappearing at sea aboard liners from Cunard to Union-Castle have made cruise history. The romantic decks of “The Love Boat” can be a very dangerous place. And crimes still happen today aboard cruise ships. The International Cruise Victims organization is an advocate group with many suspicious deaths listed.

As for cruising the past, history finds there were two or three murders supposedly linked to Cunard Line’s RMS Queen Mary before WW 2. Another murder druing the during the winter of 1933 a certain Mr Poderjay most likely smuggled his dead wife aboard the liner RMS Olympic in a trunk and disposed of her out of a porthole.

Then in 1947, a decade later, another ship, another porthole and another body hit the headlines. This time there were be no doubts about what really happened.

Porthole As Evidence – The porthole from Eileen Gibson’s cabin on the Union-Castle Line vessel Durban Castle is carried into Winchester Assizes during the murder trial of James Camb, 23rd March 1948. Camb was later convicted of murdering Gibson, an English actress, during a voyage from South Africa to England in October 1947. At the trial Camb admitted disposing of Gibson’s body through the porthole. [Read more...]