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…
Hikawa Maru: The Last of Her Kind
While a handful of Atlantic ocean liners still exist, there is only one remaining classic…
Olympic Sinks a U-Boat
This time, unlike the Lusitania disaster three years earlier, it was the ocean liner that…
Vive la France
France (1962), the last great ocean liner for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (French Line), was launched…
Cunard’s Spirited Response to Prohibition
The United States began its so-called “noble experiment” with alcohol prohibition on 16 January 1920.…
Lusitania Survivors
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Remembering Lusitania
On 7 May 1915, Cunard Line’s Lusitania became the target of a terrifying new weapon of…
The Olympic Mutiny
The word “mutiny” brings to mind images of HMS Bounty, Capt. Bligh, and conflict on…