Cruising The Past Cruise News 
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 »
CRUISING THE GREAT LAKES IN THE 1930s ABOARD THE STEAMER SEEANDBEE
YOUTUBE VIDEO – EXCELLENT GREAT LAKES FOOTAGE – MERIT CLUB CRUISE ON BOARD S.S. SEEANDBEE, SEPTEMBER 1937 SS Seeandbee (1913-1947) Built in 1913 by the American Shipbuilding Company, Wyandotte, MI as SS Seeandbee for the U.S.-based Cleveland and Buffalo (hence, the name See and Bee) Transit Company as a side-wheel ... Read More »
NEW BRITISH TITANIC TV MINI-SERIES to be filmed…
RMS TITANIC… Linus Roache and Geraldine Somerville are to head the cast of the epic TV dramatization of the RMS Titanic story being written by Julian Fellowes. RMS Titanic running the vessel SS New York off her moorings and almost colliding with her. Downton Abbey creator Julian is scripting a ... Read More »
LOOKING AT UK CRUISING PAST…
ELDER DEMPSTER & COMPANY – ONE OF THE UK’S LARGEST SHIPPING COMPANIES… In 1868 John Dempster went into partnership with Alexander Elder, the brother of the eminent Glasgow shipbuilder, John, to act as Liverpool agents of the British and African Steam Navigation Company of Glasgow. The company’s vessels were constructed ... Read More »
ALASKA CRUISING AND BRITISH COLUMBIA COASTAL SERVICE – THE UNION STEASMHIP COMPANY
The Klondike gold rush galvanized the Union Steamship Company to begin operations in Alaska. The company was founded in 1889 by John Darling, the director of a New Zealand shipping company who recognized a great need for a scheduled service that would transport supplies and work crews to various northern ... Read More »
A Titanic task: Motor specialists Haynes produce a manual for the “unsinkable ship”
A Titanic task: Motor specialists Haynes produce a manual for the “unsinkable ship” RMS TITANIC was 882ft long, weighed 46,328 tons, and was capable of carrying 3,300 passengers What if they had this book when the Titanic hit the ice-berg… who knows how it might have all turned out? Nearly ... Read More »
FOX THEATRE DETROIT… Location of the GOP Debates…
The lobby and entrance of the Fox Theatre Detroit – One of the Last Great Movie Palaces. Elvis Presley at the Fox Theatre Detroit. 1950s. The once great industrial capital of the world is home to the FOX THEATRE… one of the last remaining movies palace in the USA. Hear ... Read More »
El Horriya is the fifth largest yacht in the world…
El Horriya is the fifth largest yacht in the world is also one of the oldest super yachts still in operation. El Horriya was originally built in London in 1865 for the King of Egypt and the length was extended in 1872 and in 1905 and last refitted in 1987. ... Read More »
Elizabeth Taylor sailed Trans-Atlantic many times aboard Cunard Line.
Elizabeth Taylor sailed Trans-Atlantic many times. These are photos of her voyages aboard Cunard Line. 1950: Aboard the Queen Mary… Newlyweds Elizabeth Taylor and hotel heir Conrad “Nick” Hilton Jr. set a course for romance when the Queen Mary set sail on May 24, 1950, 18 days after the couple ... Read More »
When shipboard travel was an event aboard the SS Lurline… and a disappointment on Cunard’s mediocre cruise-ship Queen Victoria
A wonderful photo of Matson Line’s SS LURLINE during the late 1930s. The enclosed promenade deck. A steward serving bouillon in the late morning before luncheon. A boy looking out to the sea. This is now a total memory. I recently sailed trans-Atlantic aboard Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria. The ship ... Read More »
