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![Welcome Aboard, Fidel!](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Berlin-Castro-351x185.jpg)
Welcome Aboard, Fidel!
Capt. Heinrich Lorenz, left, of Norddeutscher Lloyd’s Berlin (ex-Kungsholm of Swedish American Line), proposes a…
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Cunard and His Line
Samuel Cunard, founder of Cunard Line. Born on 21 November 1787, Sir Samuel Cunard was descended…
![Bert Pitman: Titanic’s Third Officer](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Pitman-Titanic-2-351x185.jpg)
Bert Pitman: Titanic’s Third Officer
Herbert John “Bert” Pitman, third officer on Titanic (1912), was born on 20 November 1877…
![Gustav Wilhelm Wolff: Shipbuilder](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Titanic-Featured-351x185.jpg)
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff: Shipbuilder
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, born on 14 November 1834, was the “Wolff” in the famous Belfast-based…
![Churchill’s First Transatlantic Crossing](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Etruria-351x185.jpg)
Churchill’s First Transatlantic Crossing
Beginning his long association with Cunard Line vessels, Winston Churchill, 20, arrived in New York…
![The Babe, The Spy and the Empress of Japan](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Empress-of-Japan-1930-351x185.jpg)
The Babe, The Spy and the Empress of Japan
Canadian Pacific Line’s Empress of Japan (1930) arrived in Yokohama harbor on 2 November 1934…
![William Turner — Lusitania Captain](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Lusitania-19071-351x185.jpg)
William Turner — Lusitania Captain
Cunard Line Commodore William Thomas Turner, master of Lusitania when she was sunk by a…
![Greta Garbo Sails to Fame](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Garbo-Stiller-Drottininholm2-351x185.jpg)
Greta Garbo Sails to Fame
Legendary Swedish movie actress Greta Garbo and Finnish director Maurtiz Stiller smile for the press…
![Celtic Captain: “Torpedoed by a Taxi”](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Oddities-Featured-351x185.jpg)
Celtic Captain: “Torpedoed by a Taxi”
White Star Celtic Captain A.E.S Hambleton survived World War I without a scratch. But, then,…
![Walter Lord — He Rescued Titanic](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Walter-Lord-2-351x185.jpg)
Walter Lord — He Rescued Titanic
Walter Lord, Titanic historian and the author of A Night to Remember, was born on…