The Floating Media Circus
Anyone who believes that media circuses are a recent trend never sailed on a major…
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Rex Fails to Conquer
On 27 September 1932, Rex departed on her catastrophic maiden voyage. If not for the…
Paris: From Gem to Hazard
Approximately three years after she was laid down, French Line’s Paris was launched on 12…
Ocean Liner Crewcats
An interesting bit of feline-related maritime trivia, courtesy of the Humboldt Union (Humboldt, Kansas) of…
Hanseatic Afire
On 7 September 1966, a fire broke out in the B-Deck diesel generator room of…
Twilight of the Golden Age
On 2 August 1937, at the height of the golden age of superliners, French Line’s…
Rex: Italy’s Ocean King
Italy’s first superliner, Rex, was launched on 1 August 1931. Italy had never been a…
Inside Paris (1921)
Paris was like the city itself in the 1920s: fast, upbeat, bold, young and forward…
1959: The Giant Liners That Never Were
Back in August 1959, H.B. Cantor, a US hotel owner, claimed he was going to…
The “New” Nantucket Lightship
After Olympic (1911) accidentally ran over and sank the Nantucket Lightship (Lightship 117) in 1934,…