The Love Boat has ended her long career and has been retired to a breakers yard in Turkey. That show put me off cruises throughout my youth and through the years when I could actually afford to book a cruise package. Perhaps I never paid attention before but Pacific Princess was so small compared to today’s… Read more
Post Image: SS United States Photo By Mpftmead (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The SS United States Conservancy is running a continuing campaign to save and resort America’s Ocean Liner. She has languished in a derelict state for so long and yet weathered the abuse stoically. Please follow the link below and like… Read more
The Final Glory Of The Italian Line Ocean Liners Italian Style 1965-1975 The Italian Line was responsible for commissioning two of the last purpose built ocean liners. SS Michelangelo and SS Raffaello were designed with the modern flair of the Nineteen Sixties and sailed between Genoa, Italy and New York. But the era also saw… Read more
The retired Queen doesn’t need much of an introduction. These are some of the photographs I took on my last visit. I’ll post more pictures from this trip as I get the time. Thanks for having a look. :-)… Read more
The SS United States has been laid up in Philadelphia for many years now. She has not sailed under her own power since 1969. Her final voyage returned from Europe bound for New York, collecting my parents, our 1963 Rambler and myself in Southampton U.K. along the way and then never setting out to sea… Read more
Image credit to: Travis6406 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Maritime Matters reports about one of the last “traditional liners” still in service heading off to retirement. via SAGA RUBY To Be Retired | MaritimeMatters… Read more