HAPAG’s Imperator—Mein Feld Ist Die Welt
Hamburg America Line’s Imperator was launched on 23 May 1912 at Hamburg’s Vulcan Werft shipyard.…
Monthly Archives: May, 2020
Vistafjord: Welcome Aboard!
Norwegian America Line’s Vistafjord left on her maiden voyage on 22 May 1973, a transatlantic…
Classic Cruising on Caronia (1949)
Here’s a Cunard Line marketing film from the 1950s extolling the delights of a Mediterranean…
Sun Vista’s Dark Day
On 20 May 1999 Sun Vista (ex-Galileo Galilei (1963)), bound for Singapore from Phuket, Thailand,…
United States—The Smart Choice
This Samsonite luggage advertisement ran in the 8 June 1953 issue of LIFE Magazine. In…
White Star Liners Collide
Late on the afternoon of 19 May 1887 White Star Line’s Celtic (1872), steaming toward…
White Star Line’s Noah’s Ark
Tauric (1891) must have looked like White Star Line’s Noah’s Ark as she steamed into New York…
Notable New York Piers
Here’s an old magic lantern slide (below) of White Star Line’s Pier 44 in lower…
The Horrible Collision That Never Was
It had all the potential to be history’s worst ocean liner-into-ocean liner collision. On the…
Gripsholm: Bad Luck, Poor Timing
Swedish American Line’s Gripsholm (1957) left on her maiden voyage, Gothenburg to New York, on…