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Larry Driscoll’s book “The Last Great Race”  fascination with ships started as a 7-year-old, when he, his mother and two siblings boarded the S.S. America to cross the Atlantic to join his father in Paris, who worked for the Voice of America. Driscoll recalls how the ship — in the ... Read More »

Life With Father ran for 3,224 performances over 401 weeks, becoming the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, a record it still holds. The play toured the US for three years, was revived on Broadway, and enjoyed thousands of productions in stock, amature, university, and school productions. The play was adapted ... Read More »

The high-profile divorce of entertainment billionaire David Geffen and his much younger husband, David Armstrong (also known as Donovan Michaels), has ignited a scandalous legal battle involving explosive allegations and no prenuptial agreement to safeguard Geffen’s estimated $8 billion fortune. No Prenup, Big Stakes The couple married in March 2023 ... Read More »

The Andrea Doria was a luxurious Italian transatlantic ocean liner that tragically sank after a collision with the MS Stockholm in 1956. The crash occurred on July 25, 1956, while the Andrea Doria was en route from Genoa to New York, and resulted in the deaths of 51 passengers and ... Read More »

The shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner completed its final journey, reaching Genoa on Sunday where it will be scrapped. The ship before the negligent disaster by Costa Lines and Carnival Cruises.   The nightmare cruise. If this happened in an open sea – thousands more than the TITANIC would die. Cruise-ships ... Read More »

Cruise History – The Old Fall River Line – Everyone from presidents to swindlers sailed the Sound on “Mammoth Palace Steamers” in the heyday of the side-wheelers and night boats. The Fall River Line was a combination steamboat and railroad connection between New York City and Boston that operated between ... Read More »

For first-class passengers aboard ocean liners and cruises, from the 1930s into the 1960s, the menu choices were staggering. On ships like the SS Europa, RMS Queen Mary, and the SS United States, dinner might have had 12 courses, with 8 to 10 options for each course. It is difficult ... Read More »

Zim Lines began passenger service connecting Israel with Mediterranean ports began after the State of  Israel was established in 1948 and for 20 years they operated an excellent sea transportation fleet of ships In the early 1950s, Zim became a member of the North Atlantic Passenger Conference and bought Home ... Read More »

The floating palace for the rich and famous: Vintage photos reveal glamor on board the Queen Mary during her maiden voyage. First Class Dining Room The RMS Queen Mary departed from Southampton on May 27, en route to New York, marking the first of many transatlantic crossings. Elizabeth Taylor walking her ... Read More »

In 1929, the German airship Graf Zeppelin began her round-the-world voyage from Lakehurst, New Jersey. A worldwide media success, the airship continued regular passenger service to North and South America.  Full color footage Video of the Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg airships including the Hindenburg burning. In 1936 the new Nazi-built airship, the ... Read More »

Over 900 German-Jewish passengers had purchased return passage in Cabin Class and 3rd Class on the Hamburg-America Line MS St Louis. On May 13, 1939, eighty-three years ago, they sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba. The MS St Louis 1929 to 1938 The new German flag, MS St Louis, ... Read More »

After departing from Philadelphia earlier this month, the SS United States recently arrived at the Florida coastline. Being towed to the port of Mobile in Alabama, the former ocean liner is sailing on its last voyage ahead of becoming the world’s largest artificial reef. In a picture shared by Port ... Read More »