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Paul Swift sent us the following great photos. The ship is departing. Crowds, streamers and farewells. Paul couldn’t exactly state where the ship was departing from and had no record in connection with these photos. He suspected it was Sydney, Australia. I consulted maritime expert Peter Knego, Maritime Matters, and ... Read More »

The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929. First conceived by Dr. Claudius Dornier in 1924, planning started in late 1925 and after over 240,000 work hours it was completed ... Read More »

A little known shipping service – THE AROSA LINE – it provided Trans-Atlantic service for immigrants, students and families seeking lower fares. The company carried thousands of German and European immigrants to Canada and the USA during the 1950s. Although the company was known as a Swiss organization, all the ... Read More »

Harold Lloyd, wife Mildred Davis, granddaughter Suzanne and dogs returning from a European vacation in the 1950s aboard the SS United States sailing from Europe to New York. Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his ... Read More »

THE M/V HIKAWA MARU was operated by the NYK Line (now Crystal Cruises). She was the only Japanese passenger vessel to survive WW 2. In her 30 years of service, the HIKAWA MARU crossed the pacific 254 times, carrying around 25,000 passengers and a great volume of cargo. 5 Stars ... Read More »

From the 1960s… home movie crossing the “pond” from New York to Europe and return… Cruise History: The French Line’s SS FRANCE and SS LIBERTE crossing the pond… Read More »

Beleaguered cruise ship Carnival Triumph is due to dock, four days since it was stranded 150 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula after a fire erupted in the engine room. Read More »

  Queen Elizabeth II aboard the MS Lord Selkirk II. (J.H. Allan collection) The MS Lord Selkirk II was a passenger cruise ship that sailed the Red River and Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. Lake Winnipeg’s last cruise ship, she was the largest ever built between the Great Lakes and ... Read More »

Eva Braun aboard the MS Milwaukee in 1939. Fragments of one of the best film from the Eva Braun’s collection. We can see Eva reflected in the glass of the Hamburg America Line agency while filming her mother’s arrival in a black Mercedes-Benz. The parts of the film with shots ... Read More »

Social History: A wonderful video of The Garden of Allah…  “Don’t it always seem to go / That you don’t know what you’ve got / ‘Til it’s gone / They paved paradise / And put up a parking lot” ?–Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi” Urban legend has it that folk ... Read More »