Cruising The Past Cruise News

Southern Pacific’s OAKLAND PIER in the 1950s… The Oakland Long Wharf, later known as the Oakland Pier or the SP Mole was a massive railroad wharf and ferry pier in Oakland, California located at the foot of Seventh Street. Ferry approaches San Francisco in 1941. The recently completed San Francisco-Oakland Bay ... Read More »

Crossing the Equator on one of the great Moore McCormack Line ships following World War 2. History of this great company… On the 9th July 1913 Messrs. McCormack and Moore (both just shy of 33 years of age) formed Moore & McCormack Company, Incorporated, to charter ships, then to own them.  ... Read More »

In “It Happened One Night,” The Reverend Father Neal Dodd is just being himself as he prepares to officiate at Claudette Colbert’s garden wedding – even though Colbert jilts her fiance at the altar to run away with Clark Gable. Dodd was play-acting in the 1934 film, as he did ... Read More »

Try to imagine the United States of America at the end of the second World War, the American People helped make the world safe from the threats of the “isms.” SS United States sails past the Statue of Liberty…  Now imagine a new, sparkling, symbol of our great Nation plying ... Read More »

The P&O (Peninsular & Occidental) Steamship Company owned this long-serving liner and operated her from SS Florida throughout her 37-year career, except for 4 years in World War II. Originally the SS Florida connected Tampa, Key West and Havana. In 1934 service was transferred to a Miami-Havana route; in 1954 ... 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 »

The Coast Daylight had its inaugural run on March 1, 1937 between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It was hauled by GS-2 steam locomotives. It was the first of the Daylight series that also included the San Joaquin Daylight, Shasta Daylight, Sacramento Daylight, and Sunbeam. The Coast Daylight ran behind ... Read More »

Once upon a time, it carried stars, princes and potentates across the Atlantic in high style and at great speed. The SS United States sails into New York during the early 1950s… When travel was first class and not some private just occupied by celebrities with parents who shop at ... Read More »

When the S.S. President Roosevelt departed the New York harbor in the summer of 1928 with all the U.S. Olympics competitors aboard, her passenger list included a large Baltimore contingent — the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team. The Baltimoreans and Hopkins alumni filled the dock as the ocean liner sailed. Lacrosse was ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »