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A great video on the lost liner – RMS EMPRESS OF IRELAND… Cruise and Social History: the ghost ships – RMS Titanic • RMS Lusitania • RMS Empress of Ireland Join famed “Titanic” discoverer, oceanographer and maritime geologist Robert Ballard on his last expedition to explore the ocean liners of ... Read More »

James Cameron and his collaborators have made more than 30 dives to the wreck of the Titanic, submerged in more than 2 miles (3.8 kilometers) of water beneath the North Atlantic. His voyages to this most famous shipwreck, enabled by his own technical innovations, such as remotely operated vehicles, have ... Read More »

Fall River’s Borden family helped fund the company.  They were mainly known for their famous family member: Lizzie Borden.  She was tried and acquitted in the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother… Cruise History – The Old Fall River Line – Everyone from presidents to swindlers sailed the ... Read More »

 Cunard Line Passenger Lists Cruise History: Passenger lists were the Bibles for shipboard travel.  Here is an excellent article from Cruise Travel Magazine by ship-expert Theodore W. Scull that discusses the subject in depth.  From French Line to Cunard to Matson – passenger lists were “bibles” aboard ship. Monaco’s Prince ... Read More »

J. Pierpont Morgan Jr. could never have imagined his yacht Corsair IV being converted into a deluxe cruise ship whose short career would end in tragedy but it happened on a sailing from California to Acapulco in 1949. J.P. Morgan Jr. and his legendary business tycoon father, J. Pierpont Morgan, ... Read More »

Alonso de Ercilla, Chilean Motorship TRAVEL AND SOCIAL HISTORY – THE CHILEAN LINE – NEW YORK TO CHILE via THE PANAMA CANAL – PERU AND ECUADOR Steamship History and Cruise History – South American Steamship Company (Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores – CSAV) – Their passenger service did not survive ... Read More »

SS United States arrives in New York – 1950 Travel and Social History: Two more months and the SS United States may head to the scrap yard.  Conservancy Hopes to Raise Enough to Save Ship With Help From Redevelopment Project. The SS United States, docked in Philadelphia, has been working towards ... Read More »

2013 “THE GREAT GATSBY” Film Review – Dumbing Down The Great Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann’s Spectacle Misses the Point! Baz Luhrmann’s new 3-D movie “The Great Gatsby” follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, ... Read More »

Social and Cruise History: Sinking feeling: unease about Titanic II plan… Titanic II… I agree with Hazel Gaynor’s piece in the Irish Examiner. The “Titanic II” is just another media gimmick. No one in their right mind is going to sail across the Atlantic on some seven day recreation of ... Read More »

Brooks Bros. collection for the new film The Great Gatsby – very 1929 cruising fashion…  The First Class Lounge on board MS Kungsholm – by many regarded as one of the most beautiful rooms afloat. The MS Kungsholm (II)/Italia – 1928 – 1965 The MS KUNGSHOLM was built in Hamburg, ... Read More »