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MILLERGRAM
by Bill Miller
billmilleratsea.com
August 2015
The Millergram is designed and formatted by Tim Noble, our good friend from
Melbourne, Australia and a former navigating officer with the Blue Star Line.
BOOKS: Over in Holland, our good friend Dr Nico Guns is busily at work. Among
projects such as a massive, two-volume set on the beloved Holland America liner
Nieuw Amsterdam of 1938, he is also creating a history of Holland America Line itself
as well as an extensive history of another iconic Dutch liner, the Rotterdam of 1959.
See the cover below.
CARGO SHIPS: Just in case you might be interested, Holland is producing the
world's largest floating cranes. Capable of lifting up to 10,000 tons, these vessels are
over 700 feet long or the same size as, say, the liner Andrea Doria. ... And for
something different, 12 passengers are carried aboard the brand new, French-owned
containership CMA CGM Kerguelen. Used in around-the-world freight service for
Marseilles-based CGM, the 1,299-ft long ship can carry up to 20,000 containers as
well. That's 22 containers across. The passenger quarters can be booked interport or
as a full world cruise.
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CMA CGM Kerguelen arriving at Le Havre.
CARNIVAL: Long lasting friendships! Carnival has now created long-standing
relationships with two shipbuilders, Fincantieri in Italy and Meyer Werft in Germany as
well as Finland. ... Meanwhile, Carnival has finalized contracts for 4 "next generation"
cruise liners, the first ever to be powered by LNG. The quartet will also set another
record: With accommodations for 6,600 passengers, they will have the highest
capacities at sea. They surpass Royal Caribbean's giants by several hundred beds. ...
Meanwhile, Carnival has 9 newbuilds in its planning that would be assigned to its
varied Western subsidiaries such as Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America and
Princess. There has been some subsequent rethinking, however. Several of the ships
might be assigned to new Chinese operations
and altered to suit that growing market. ... In
yet more news, Carnival will build Europe's
largest cruise terminal. The facility will be in
Barcelona... Out East, Carnival and its
subsidiary cruise lines currently have 6 big liners
in Chinese cruise service. It is now predicted,
based on the extraordinary growth of the China
cruise market, that the number of ships will
jump to 12-15 ships in the next ten years.
COSTA: Plans are in the making to increase this Company's presence in the Pacific
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Photo below by Philippe Brebant
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CRUISE & MARITIME VOYAGES: Another change in the cruise ship cast! The 67year-old Azores, Portugese owned but currently under charter to Cruise & Maritime, will
get something like her seventh or eighth name next year. Her next charter is to French
niche operator Rivages du Monde. She will then become the Astoria. The 12,000-ton
ship is the former Stockholm, made infamous by her tragic collision with the Andrea
Doria on July 25-26th 1956.
CRYSTAL: On Jul 20th, Crystal had what might have been the biggest cruise news ever.
Now owned by the mighty Genting organization, Crystal revealed an almost startling fiveprong plan: (1) Three 100,000-ton cruise liners for 1,000 passengers, with 1,000 crew
and with a top deck for suites that guests can buy; (2) Crystal yacht/expedition cruises
using two 62-bed luxury ships; (4) Crystal luxury river cruises in Europe; and (5)
around-the-world luxury tours in a luxurious Crystal jet.
The overall goal is to make
Crystal the most diverse,
innovative and possibly most
luxurious operator in the
cruise business. Exciting
times ahead for Crystal!
CUNARD: Just to repeat: two wonderful, highly recommendable new books
featuring the great Cunard liners past and present are Queens of the Mersey:A Special
Homecoming (Cunard 175) by Tony Storey and Triumph of A Great Tradition: The
Story of Cunard's 175 Years by Eric Flounders & Michael Gallagher. ... And speaking
of Michael Gallagher, Cunard's resident historian and London-based public relations
manager, he and his team pulled out all the stops, Cunard golden stops of course, in
recording and noting tons of the Company's great and glorious history – from the first
Cunarder to have electricity, to the first children's playroom, the first world cruise and
even the exact moment the little Britannia, Cunard's first ship, sailed off from
Liverpool on the Line's inaugural voyage to North America. Three mighty blasts to
Michael, his team and all of Cunard for creating the very finest and most fitting 175th
anniversary.
No shipping company can do special events, it would seem, like Cunard. Often, they've
organized rendezvous of their liners, the world famous Queens. But this year has not
just been special, but very special. Cunard turned 175. A great and grand event indeed!
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Fortunately, I participated in two of the greatest events. On May 24th, all three Queens -the Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth – met in Liverpool, Cunard's
spiritual home (and headquarters from 1840 until 1968). As part of a two-week cruise to
the Baltic, I was aboard the 2,000-passenger Queen Elizabeth. And what a fine voyage it
was. We reached Liverpool in the late morning of the 24th – and as the mood, the
anticipation, the brewing excitement onboard heightened. All outdoor decks were opened
including the normally restricted foredeck on Deck Five. Everyone, it seemed, wanted a
good spot. It turned out for me to be one of the very best ocean liner events ever.
Happily, gray skies brightened as we neared the mouth of the Mersey. The Queen Mary
2, which was already in Liverpool, appeared out of the mists; the Queen Victoria was
immediately behind us. Two years of Cunard's detailed planning was turning into reality.
Being a guest speaker, I took my post in the wheelhouse, narrating for four hours wedged
between selected music (patriotic as well as the Beatles, that Mersey Sound) and of
Cunard, liner history, the great port of Liverpool and the long-ago heyday of the great
British merchant navy. For four hours, I used everything but the kitchen sink – I did a
list of great shipping lines that used Liverpool and later even rattled off the names, if all
bygone, of Liverpool-passenger ships.
As we entered the Mersey, our ship, the Queen Elizabeth, majestically took the lead –
moving slowly, like Her Majesty the Queen herself does. Small boats had gathered,
most of them dressed in flags. Fireboats began spraying plumes of water. Ferries and
excursion boats were all but top heavy with spectators. We passed Liverpool itself and
then stopped just off the Cammell Laird shipyard, located across the River in
Birkenhead. Then the Queen Victoria and finally the Queen Mary 2 arrived. The three
largest Cunarders ever were in close formation – and then slowly began their
"pirouette," or as Cunard dubbed it "the royal river dance". Each liner turned in
perfectly calculated precision by 180 degrees. Yes, it was a dance – an ocean liner
dance! The shorelines were jammed, at least twenty deep in some places, and were
estimated at 1 ½ million in all. Once facing outward on the River, the Queen Victoria
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and then the Queen Elizabeth very carefully edged their way up alongside the Queen
Mary 2 – the three Queens with no more than a few hundred feet between one another
in precision perfection. Their whistles sounded, the passengers on deck cheered and sang
and waved flags, and all while the sun appeared. What a sight, what an occasion, what
an anniversary! The roaring Red Arrows flew over by 1:30 and then, with more whistle
sounding, the Queen Mary 2 slowly began to sail off – with the Queen Victoria dropping
anchor and tendering into Liverpool; our ship moving to the vacant Liverpool Cruise
Terminal. What an occasion, what a day, what an anniversary day for Cunard!
Among other celebratory events, the Queen Mary 2 specially returned to Liverpool on
July 4th. She was there to recreate much of Cunard's very first crossing aboard the little,
1,900-ton paddle-wheeler Britannia. Happily, I was onboard.
Sound the trumpets! At 9:30, we're off in one of the first bus relays Cunard has laid on to
take us to Liverpool's imposing Anglican Cathedral. The purpose: A 90-minute concert
called Triumph of a Great Tradition. It is the 175th anniversary salute to Cunard, its ships
and to those who created, built and sailed them. And what a stunning tribute it was!
Absolutely spectacular!
Once inside the 1930s built Cathedral, the powerful organ played for some 15 minutes
as a kick-off followed by the National Symphony Orchestra led by the charismatic
Anthony Inglis and a rousing rendition of Britain's National Anthem. Captain Kevin
Oprey of the Queen Mary 2 opened the remarks followed by set pieces, each linked to
music and speakers. Included were the likes of You'll Never Walk Alone: What Cunard
Means to Liverpool; All the Queen's Horses: Cunard at War – from the Crimea to
World War I; Moving in Royal Circles – Cunard & the Royal Family; and The
Phoenix Rises: Construction, Life & Death of the Queen Elizabeth 2.
Performers and presenters included the Scots Guards, The Royal Liverpool
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Philharmonic, the Welsh Guards, British TV personalities Jennie Bond and Michael
Buerk, the Liverpool Cathedral Choir, the great great grandsons of Samuel Cunard,
Captain Ian McNaught, the CEO of Carnival UK, former deputy prime minister John
Prescott and authoress Carol Thatcher, Lord Steel of Aikwood, Simon Weston, the great
grand-daughter of the captain of the Carpathia (the ship that heroically rescued the
survivors from the Titanic) and, well remembered from the long-running British soap
Coronation Street, actors Roy Barraclough and Thelma Barlow, both of whom did
evocative readings.
From beginning to end, Samuel Cunard would not have been just proud, but very proud.
What a grand meshing: The extraordinary cathedral setting, the stirring music, glorious
singers, marching guardsmen, evocative and historic readings, vintage Cunard footage on
the screen for all to see. We saw vintage film clips of the likes of the Lusitania,
Aquitania, the launch of the Queen Mary, the Queens at war and, in blazing modern
color, the naming of the recent Queens. At one point, a lone trumpeter played high above
us, in an upper gallery near a knave. Cunard's silver cup was ceremoniously marched in
as well as a laurel wreath in tribute to Mr Cunard (a large bust of him sat center stage). I
had tears in my eyes on more than one occasion. Yes, Cunard is unique – Cunard has
great history – Cunard has been and is so much! We rose to sing God Save the Queen, we
applauded, we waved Union Jacks and altogether we finished with Rule Britannia, Pomp
& Circumstance and, finally, Happy Birthday, Cunard. It seemed as though a thousand
Union Jacks were waved together. As a final event, the Welsh Guards marched out, along
the cathedral's main aisle, in great style and with grand pomp. Then, so appropriate and
so well deserved, the final applause went on and on. What an occasion, what a tribute,
what precision! Together, with last May's Three Queens in the Mersey, Cunard could not
have had a better or more fitting 175th!
The day's events continued. At 2:00pm, the Queen Mary 2's whistle was sounded to
mark the exact time the little Britannia departed from here on July 4th 1840. 175 years to
the hour! Then, at 4 o'clock, the Red Arrows made a return and, in bright, warm
sunshine, flew over the Cunard flagship. Ashore, the pierside, the promenades and the
waterfront were crammed with tourists, Saturday strollers, families on a day's outing.
The city of Liverpool and Cunard had arranged for acrobatics, bands, street fairs, openair performances, a giant mirror ball (which later turned into a disco) and, at 9:30, a
dockside presentation by the Royal Marines. Then, at 10pm, it was fireworks over the
Mersey. Afterward, we set sail on a special anniversary crossing to Halifax, Boston and
New York. And the festivities continued at sea – dinners, lectures, special events, a QE2
reunion and a 175 Ball. Once more, happy anniversary Cunard!
The crossing was high-spirited and celebratory. Among others, Commodore Ron
Warwick, the QM2's first master; Stephen Payne, the ship's designer; Maureen Ryan, a
longtime Cunard purserette and hostess; and John Langley, head of the Cunard
Historical Society in Nova Scotia were aboard. On some days, there were 4 talks in the
ship's stunning Illuminations auditorium. Seven special menus were also produced for
commemorative theme nights which included a salute to the iconic Queen Elizabeth 2
(her keel was laid on July 5th 1965 and so a 50-year commemoration of that events as
well).
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There were special events in both Halifax and in Boston as well as a grand welcome and
then gala sendoff at New York on July 14th (but these shall be reported on in a future
issue).
Meanwhile, at New York festivities, Cunard officials announced that the 151,000-ton
Queen Mary 2 is headed for an extended refit, from May 27th thru Jun 21st, at the Blohm
& Voss shipyard in Hamburg. There will be considerable changes, upgrades and
alterations. But so far, 15 single cabins will be added, 10 more spaces in the kennels and
the Britannia Club will be expanded.
Photos by our good friend Jonathan Atkin
DELTA QUEEN: Vintage vessel – The 1926-built steamboat Delta Queen has been
purchased by a group of investors. Not sailing since 2008 and instead serving as a
dockside hotel at Chattanooga, Tennessee, the 176-passenger vessel might return to
"steamboating". The new owners plan a $5 million refit, which would include new
boilers.
FATHOM: This new Carnival division using P&O's 700-bed Adonia will offer a new
concept in cruising: volunteering and helping in underdeveloped areas as part of the 7night cruise experience. The 30,000-ton ship will begin with weekly sailings from
Miami to the Dominican Republic, but will begin alternating with weekly cruises to
Cuba in May 2016.
LINDBLAD: This specialist cruise operator has merged, in a $439 million deal, with
Capital Acquisition Corp. Lindblad holds 50% while Capital has 49%.
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MSC CRUISES: It's a bit of a mouthful – but MSC's next new mega-liner, a 167,000tonner carrying 4,500 guests, will be MSC Merviglia. ... The 2,120-passenger MSC
Opera will begin weekly cruises from Havana this winter. In all, she will make 16 cruises,
each of which include 2 nights in Havana and calls in Mexico and Grand Cayman as well.
... Meanwhile, MSC is now Europe's biggest cruise operator – with 1.1 million berths –
and beating out the likes of Aida and Costa.
OCEAN LINER COLLECTIBLES: Tea at 4! A silver tea service with creamer, sugar
bowl and tray sold recently for $175. It was marked Grace Line and, judging by its age, it
came from the likes of the original Santa Paula & Santa Rosa, two fine little liners dating
from 1932-33.
OCEAN LINER HISTORY: Heading south of the Equator! Nearly eighty years ago, the
800-passenger, three-class Reina del Pacifico left Liverpool for the West Coast of South
America. On April 7th 1937 she cast off on a month-long voyage to La Rochelle,
Santander, Coruna, Vigo, Bermuda, Nassau, Havana, Kingston, Cristobal, Balboa, La
Libertad, Palta, Callao, Mollendo, Arica, Iquique, Antofagasta and Valparaiso.
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P&O CRUISES: Close call! The 69,000-ton Oriana had an engine room fire last April
while on a cruise sailing from Miami to New Orleans.
REGENT: It is certainly one of the longest world cruises – the Seven Seas Navigator
will set off from Miami in Jan 2017 on a 129-day circumnavigation.
ROYAL CARIBBEAN: Changing roles! The 69,000-ton Splendour of the Seas,
commissioned in 1996 for Royal Caribbean cruising, is going over to RCI's Thomson
Cruises division next April and so will begin a new life as the Thomson Discovery.
She'll be based at Palma for western Med cruises. Thomson is now basing its liners only
in the Med – with cruises from Malaga, Dubrovnik and Corfu. ... While the new
Quantum of the Seas has sailed off to China for cruise service there, the second of this
innovative class, the Anthem of the Seas, is now doing European cruises before heading
to New York this fall. The third of this 167,000-ton, 5,000-passenger class, the Ovation
of the Seas, will be delivered next year, dividing her time between China cruising and a
half-year in the booming
Australian market. ... And
heading for Australian
cruising, the 3,400-bed
Explorer of the Seas will
join her sister Voyager of
the Seas for Sydney-based
cruising. ... The Freedom
of the Seas had a
mechanical fire during a
cruise in the western
Caribbean on Jul 21st.
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A comparatively small blaze, it made headlines in the America news media. One
crewman was injured.
SEABOURN: Birth! The next new Seabourn ship, the 450-passenger Seabourn Encore,
is now under construction at Fincantieri's yard at Marghera in Italy. She is a slightly
expanded version of the current Seabourn Odyssey trio.
SILVERSEA: The high-end, six-star luxury market continues to expand. Crystal has
three new 100,000 tonners now on order, Seabourn has two ships, Regent and Oceania
are adding tonnage and, last month, the keel was laid for the Silver Muse, the 40,000ton addition to Silversea. The 700-bed ship will be the first of three sisterships.
SEMESTER AT SEA: There's been a swap with this university-style cruise operator.
The educational-style, 22,400-ton Explorer (ex-Olympic Explorer) has now gone to
Greek operator Celestyal Cruises for cruising as the Celestyal Odyssey; meanwhile, the
luxurious German Deutschland has become the new Semester-at-Sea ship, being
renamed World Odyssey. Semester-at-Sea began back in 1963 with the 12,500-ton
Seven Seas, chartered from the Europe-Canada Line, then an arm of Holland America.
STAR CLIPPERS: With three popular sail cruisers, Star has now ordered a fourth – a
8,700 tonner for 300 passengers that will be built in Croatia. Due in 2017, she'll have 5
masts plus lots of creature comfort amenities: 3 pools, 4 bars and a water sports
platform.
THOMSON CRUISES: This well known UK cruise operator along with First Choice
Cruises are both soon to be rebranded as part of TUI. Meanwhile, there are fleet changes
ahead as well – the 2,200-passenger Mein Schiff 1 & Mein Schiff 2, the former Galaxy &
Mercury of Celebrity Cruises, are going from German operation to TUI in the UK.
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PHOTO SALON
Ships in Rotterdam
by Captain Hans Hoffman
Above: Deutchland
Others: Oasis of the Seas
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HEARD ALONG THE BOAT DECK:
The STELLA SOLARIS
I am often asked, usually aboard current cruise ships, about the whereabouts of some
long-ago ships. Sometimes it is the ship from that very first, indelibly remembered
cruise. Occasionally, we did back farther, to the great and grand age of Atlantic liners,
ships used on those magically memorable summertime trips to and from Europe. One
of the ships was the Greek-owned Stella Solaris.
The blue-hulled Stella Solaris was a very popular cruise ship. For nearly 30
years, she was especially well known in the Eastern Mediterranean, mostly for her 7day cruises from Piraeus to the nearby Greek islands and to Turkey, Israel and/or
Egypt. But she also cruised the Caribbean, made trips around South America and
became one of the earliest cruise ships to sail the exotic, picturesque Amazon River,
making the 1,000-mile journey from the Atlantic coast to the interior city of Manaus. I
was aboard her for one of these trips, in December 1985. She was also especially well
known for her Caribbean cruises out of Galveston, Texas. In the mid 1980s, during a
slump period for Mediterranean-Greek isle cruising, especially following the headlinemaking terrorist hijacking of the Italian liner Achille Lauro (in the Eastern Med, in
October 1985), the 15,000-ton Stella Solaris (“Star of the South”) also had a temporary
base at New York, running cruises to Bermuda, the Caribbean and up to New England
& Canada. She was also known for her periodic theme cruises, such as astronomy and
theater-at-sea. Fine lecturers, which included well known celebrities such as Broadway
& Hollywood stars, were often aboard. A rebuilt ship, she was actually quite moderate
in size by current day standards, accommodating 730 passengers at maximum
capacity. Her public rooms included a pleasant dining room, large main showroom and
lower-deck movie theater while, on deck, there was a large lido area with twin
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swimming pools. Her décor was Mediterranean modern, highlighted by Greek-themed
works of art. Deep blue seemed to be a prevailing color while wine-colored velour chairs
seemed to be predominant in the lounges, bars & restaurant.
“We made several cruises on the Solaris and enjoyed all of them,” recalled Mr &
Mrs Charles Fowler of Arizona. “She was a pleasant ship, well run, but had an especially
friendly spirit & happy crew. She was run by the Sun Line [which merged with the rival
Epirotiki Lines in 1995 and together they became known as Royal Olympic Cruises] at the
time and they had an excellent reputation. The Greek family owners looked after the ship
much like you might look after a family yacht. Very little fell through the cracks. The ship
had the most amazing crew, stewards and waiters and barmen that were onboard year
after year, some for ten and even twenty years. They also had the most amazing
memories, recalling not only your name and preferred drinks, but favorite items on the
menu as well. There was a sort of magic, a Greek magic, to all of this. You felt, from the
very first day, that you were at home, at a sort of favorite hotel where very little changed
from year to year. Part of the great comfort of the Stella Solaris was in her great,
unchanging consistency. You knew what to expect and it never, ever fell short. We made
all sorts of cruises aboard, but our favorite was in November on a 3-week trip from
Greece and along the entire Mediterranean before crossing the mid-Atlantic to Caribbean
ports and then finishing at Fort Lauderdale. There was such a contrast in this particular
trip --- from ports like Athens and Monte Carlo to San Juan and Nassau.”
Stella Solaris cocktail list cover.
The Stella Solaris actually began sailing in
the summer of 1953, but as the French
passenger-cargo liner Cambodge. She had
two twin sisters, the Laos and Viet-Nam,
belonging to the Marseilles-based
Messageries Maritimes and which were
used on the long-haul service between
Europe and the Far East. After departing
from Marseilles, they passed through the
Suez Canal and then called at Bombay and
Colombo (on Ceylon) before heading to the
likes of Singapore, Saigon, Manila, Hong
Kong, Kobe and Yokohama.
Their passengers were diverse: from businessmen traveling to and from the East, the
occasional tourist, traders and merchants, tea planters and silk buyers, missionaries,
farm workers, even French colonial soldiers and police forces. There were well
divided, classed accommodations onboard: upper-deck, highly comfortable first class,
then second class, third class and even fourth class with all dormitory quarters. That
Far Eastern trade dried up, however, in the late „60s as airlines stole the passengers
and big, new containerized cargo ships secured the cargos.
The Sun Line bought the out-of-work Cambodge in 1969 and, with actual plans as yet
uncertain, provisionally renamed the 21-knot, steam turbine-driven ship as the Stella V
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At the time, the Company was strengthening its cruise fleet, such as the previous Stella
Solaris, a mere 3,000-tonner, being inadequate and so was sold to Middle Eastern
interests to become a sheik‟s yacht.
The Sun Line bought the out-of-work Cambodge in 1969 and, with actual plans as yet
uncertain, provisionally renamed the 21-knot, steam turbine-driven ship as the Stella
V. In due course, the former Cambodge was gutted, extensively rebuilt and then
introduced as the “new” Stella Solaris in June 1973. She was then the largest Greek
cruise ship sailing regularly on 7-night cruises from Piraeus. A gamble at first, she was
soon a great success, indeed an affirmation of the increasing popularity of the Eastern
Mediterranean and Greek isles. Along with her many other voyages, she did indeed
give very worthwhile, very successful service over the years.
In September 2003, the 530ft long Stella Solaris was sold for scrapping to Indian
buyers. Her last trip, with just a few crewmembers aboard, took her from Piraeus and
through the Suez Canal to the remote beaches of Alang, near Mumbai, where she was
deliberately run aground and then quickly invaded by $1-a-day demolition crews. She
was said to be a “tired ship” in the end, her machinery all but worn out. She had a long
life, of course, having been 50 years old.
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RECENT NEW BOOKS
BY BILL MILLER: 2009-2015
Updated Aug 2015
POST-WAR ON THE LINERS from Fonthill Media, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, UK, due Summer 2015.
THE SHIPS OF ELLIS ISLAND from Amberley Press, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, England, due 2016.
GREAT MEDITERRANEAN PASSENGER LINERS from
the History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, due 2016.
VOYAGES – RECOLLECTIONS OF TRAVEL BY
SHIP from Fonthill Media, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England,
due 2017.
SERVING ON THE BIG SHIPS from Fonthill Media, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, England, due 2017.
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ALONG THE WATERFRONT: FREIGHTERS AT NEW
YORK from Amberley Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England,
pending.
GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS 1930-40 The History Press, due
summer 2015, 96 pages, 150 black & white and color illustrations.
FIRST CLASS CARGO: THE STORY OF COMBINATION
PASSENGER-CARGO SHIPS by The History Press, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, England, due 2015.
CUNARD-WHITE STAR LINERS OF THE 1930s by
Amberley Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, due 2015.
GATEWAY TO THE WORLD: THE GREAT PORT OF
NEW YORK by Amberley Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire,
England, due 2015.
SAILING & SOARING: THE GREAT LINERS & THE
GREAT SKYSCRAPERS from Fonthill Media, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, UK, due December 2015.
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SAILING TO THE SUN: CRUISING HISTORY &
FOLKLORE by Amberley Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England,
pending.
I WAS BORN IN HOBOKEN: CLOTHESLINES, SUMMER
NIGHTS & GROWING UP IN THE 1950s & '60s from the
Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken NJ, published Feb 2014.
CONQUEST OF THE ATLANTIC by Fonthill Media, published
January 2015, 96 pages, 150 black & white and color illustrations.
BRITISH INDIA LINERS OF THE 1950s & '60s from Amberley
Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published Aug 2014.
CUNARD – THE GOLDEN YEARS IN COLOR co-authored with
Anton Loginvenko; from Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, UK, published Winter 2014.
EAST OF SUEZ: LINERS TO AUSTRALIA IN THE 1950s &
'60s co-authored with Tim Noble; from Amberley Publishing Co,
Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published Winter 2014.
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GREAT FRENCH PASSENGER LINERS from The History
Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published September 2014.
GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS 1920-30 from The History Press,
Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published Spring 2014.
P&O-ORIENT LINERS OF THE 1950s & '60s from Amberley
Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published Fall 2014.
CLASSIC LINERS: ILE DE FRANCE & LIBERTÉ from The
History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published Feb 2013.
CLASSIC LINERS: NORMANDIE from The History Press,
Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published Aug 2013.
GREAT ATLANTIC LINERS IN COLOR (co-authored with Anton
Loginvenko) from Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire,
UK, published Jan 2013.
UNION-CASTLE LINE: FROM GREAT BRITAIN TO AFRICA
1946-77 from Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK,
published Mar 2013.
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WHITE EMPRESSES: POST-WAR CANADIAN PACIFIC
LINERS from Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK,
published Nov 2013.
ALONG THE HUDSON: LUXURY LINER ROW IN THE
1950s & '60s from Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, UK, published Jul 2012.
GREAT AMERICAN PASSENGER SHIPS from The History
Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published Jul 2012.
THE GREAT LINERS STORY from The History Press, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, UK, published May 2012.
LAST ATLANTIC LINERS: GETTING THERE IS HALF THE
FUN by Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK,
published 2011.
GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS 1910-20 from The History Press,
Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published 2011.
FLOATING PALACES: THE GREAT ATLANTIC LINERS by
Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published
2010.
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GREAT BRITISH PASSENGER SHIPS by The History Press Ltd,
Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published 2010.
RMS CARONIA: CUNARD'S GREEN GODDESS (co-authored
with Brian Hawley) The History Press Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire,
UK, published 2010.
CUNARD'S THREE QUEENS: A CELEBRATION by
Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published
2009.
SS NIEUW AMSTERDAM: THE DARLING OF THE DUTCH
by Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2009.
SS UNITED STATES: SPEED QUEEN OF THE SEAS by
Amberley Publishing Co, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, published
2009.
UNDER THE RED ENSIGN: BRITISH PASSENGER LINERS
OF THE '50s & '60s by The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire,
UK, published 2009.
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