Cruising The Past Cruise News GALE STORM DIES – STARRED IN “OH SUSANNA” THE FIRST TV SERIES ON A CRUISE SHIP (BEATING OUT LOVE BOAT) – ABOARD AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINE’S SS PRESIDENT WILSON Gale Storm with ZaSu Pitts in the 1950s TV Series aboard a cruise ship. Cruise History looks at Gale Storm who starred ... Read More »
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Color home movies aboard Home Line’s OCEANIC – “The largest ship built exclusively for cruising!”
Homeric had one of the first Balcony/Terrace Suites. Cruise History: By the mid 1960s, when jets had killed off all but the stragglers on the North Atlantic, Home Lines introduced the OCEANIC. Once it was late enough for people to have forgotten the initial intention for the ship to work ... Read More »
Cruise Ship History: This is MGM’s 1930s musical HONOLULU aboard Matson Line’s SS LURLINE starring Gracie Allen and Eleanor Powell. When getting there was half the fun!
The incomparable Gracie Allen and Eleanor Powell in this show-stopping number aboard Matson Line’s SS Lurline from the hit 1939 MGM musical HONOLULU. The song captures the Magic and Romance of Hawaii’s Golden Age aboard the great Matson liners. When getting there was truly half the fun. Alas, this song ... Read More »
Cruise Line History – Cunard Line’s QE 2 – Dates with Royalty Commemorative “Farewell” Menu
Front menu cover picture: Her Majesty The Queen, with Captain Warwick and Cunard Chairman Sir Basil Smallpiece, inspects the Britannia figurehead in the Britannia restaurant (now Mauretania Restaurant). 1 May 1969 (Thanks to Dan Cottle and his interesting website tightwadcruises.com) To recognize the 2008 Farewell Season of QUEEN ELIZABETH 2, ... Read More »
Cruise History: CUNARD LINE’S QE 2 – The last great ocean liner bids farewell to MALTA – its “second home”!
The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 made her final call at Malta’s Grand Harbour yesterday on her way to Dubai where she will be converted into a hotel. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi. MALTA – It was a “sad but special” day for the world’s most famous ship, its crew and ... Read More »
CUNARD LINE’S QE 2 LEAVES SOUTHAMPTON FOR THE LAST TIME ON FINAL VOYAGE AND SAILS INTO CRUISE SHIP HISTORY
Cunard Line’s QE2, which had run aground hours earlier, tonight sailed serenely out of Southampton, England, on a tide of emotion on its last-ever voyage. With hundreds of passengers waving from the decks and thousands of spectators watching from the shores of Southampton Water, the 70,000-ton Cunard liner headed off ... Read More »
THE WOMAN WHO LIVES ON THE QE 2 MAKES FINAL VOYAGE ABOARD CUNARD LINE’S FAMOUS LINER AND SAILS INTO CRUISE SHIP HISTORY
With the Cunard Line’s QE2 heading into retirement, many people are losing their favourite place to spend a holiday and the crew is losing a workplace.But 89-year-old Beatrice Muller is actually losing her home. She is the QE2’s only permanent resident and she is making cruise ship history as reported ... Read More »
CUNARD LINE’S LEGENDARY QE2 RUNS AGROUND TODAY ON FINAL VOYAGE
QE 2 – Arriving today at Southampton One of the world’s most famous cruise ships, the Queen Elizabeth 2, briefly ran aground on Tuesday before arriving in its home port for the last time, its owners said, as it makes cruise ship history. The 70,000-ton vessel ran onto a sandbank ... Read More »
Cruise Ship History: Holland America Line’s VOLENDAM crossing the pond – from New York to Europe – in 1937.
Experience the Holland America Liner Volendam through color home movies shot aboard a crossing in 1937. Bon Voyage! The SS VOLENDAM… For more great cruise videos check out: www.shipgeek.com. Read More »