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Heritage - ss UNITED STATES to be scrapped?

The ss UNITED STATES to be scrapped… soll abgewrackt werden? by Earl of Cruise UNITED STATES - BIG U - at night in port, © colourized by Daryl LeBlanc Am 10. Oktober 2015 schockte mich die Nachricht vom drohenden Ende der UNITEDSTATES . Ich musste dabei an die Begegnungen, welche ich mit dem bislang schnellsten aller Passagierschiffe in meinem Leben hatte denken. In New York, auf See - als Entgegenkommer, oder Überholer - es war schon ein majestätischer Anblick wenn BIG U mit 35kts heran rauschte, oder in Europa in Bremerhaven. Wir verließen an dem Tag die Columbus Kaje in Richtung New York ... oder wie meine Tanten lästerten, die Kolonien. Wie so viele, glaubte auch ich, das die SS United States Conservancy das Schiff sichert, und regelmäßig die Liegegebühren im Hafen von Philadelphia bezahlt - mtl. US$ 60.000. Die erste Gesellschaft zu dem Zweck war ebenfalls Pleite gegangen. Und bei dieser Conservancy schienen die Spenden zu fließen. Mir vielen dann die vielen Projekt...

Cruise - Luxus auf großen Schiffen

Luxus auf großen Schiffen. Ist GRÖSSER besser? by Earl of Cruise Entwurfsrendering der COSTA Neubauten, welche identisch mit denen von AIDA sind.   Am 03.Juli 2015 annoncierte die CARNIVAL CORPORATION , zu der die Kreuzfahrtgesellschaften AIDA CRUISES , COSTA CROCIERE , HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE , CARNIVAL CRUISES (2014 US$ 15,884mrd), P&O CRUISES , P&O CRUISES AUSTRALIA , PRINCESS CRUISES - das sind die mit der US TV Serie LOVE BOAT , SEABORN CRUISE LINES , CUNARD LINE und FATHOM als neueste Gesellschaft ( Brand ) gehören, dass sie einen Neubauauftrag für 4 Schiffe fest, und 2 Schiffe in Option, vergeben haben. Die mit den zuvor genannten Reedereien größte Kreuzfahrtgesellschaft der Welt (102 Schiffe), will nicht nur LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) als Treibstoff für die für COSTA und AIDA bestimmten Neubauten verwenden, sondern will auch 6.600 Passagiere (7.000 bei Doppelbelegung) auf den rund 180.000 BRZ (engl. GT, gesamter Rauminhalt eines Schiffes) großen Schiff...

Crewing - Wir feiern und die Crew?

Heizer beim entschlacken der Kessel - S.R.Archiv Basel Die neue schwarze Gang by Earl of Cruise Wir haben Spaß. Wir feiern das Leben. Wir freuen uns über das Schiff, die Reise zur See, den Service, das Essen, die Drinks, die Entdeckungen, die Ausflüge und die Erlebnisse. Andere Menschen, die Mitreisenden, die Bewohner in den Zielgebieten sind Bereicherungen für unser Leben. Aber was ist mit der Crew, also der Mannschaft? Diese Menschen ermöglichen uns, den Passagieren, eine unbeschwerte Zeit an Bord des Kreuzfahrtschiffes. Sie lächeln uns an und sind hilfsbereit. Als die Schiffe noch mit Kohle befeuert wurden, war der größte Teil der Crew tief unten im Bauch der Dampfer und schaufelte Kohle aus den Bunkern (Lager für Kohle) in die Feuerbuchsen der Dampfkessel. Es war heiß dort unten und stickig. Nicht selten auch extrem schlecht belüftet. Das Feuer bekam zumeist mehr Sauerstoff als die Schwarze Gang (Black Gang). Sie schufteten sich buchstäblich die Lunge aus dem Lei...

Design - Ist das Aussehen wichtig? Von Schiffen?

ss NORMANDIE at sea (Quelle/Source: Wikipedia) Ist das Aussehen Wichtig? by Earl of Cruise Zuerst einmal für uns, die Spezies Homo Sapiens Sapiens (der moderne Mensch) - JA! Es erleichtert einem das Leben, den Lebensweg, die Partnerwahl ... Es gibt hinlänglich und ausreichend viele und gute Untersuchungen dazu. Und warum sonst stürzen wir uns in die Fitness Studios, boomen die Casting Shows für Super Models (wobei Models eigentlich eher auf anderen Wegen entdeckt werden), die Schönheitschirurgie ... ? Schönheit liegt aber immer im Auge des Betrachters. Natalia Vodianova by Mario Testino (Quelle/Source: ohlalalamag.com) So wie wir für uns, den Menschen, ist das Aussehen auch "verkaufsfördernd"- Schönheit steigert schlicht den Marktwert! Aber was nützt der beste Marktwert, wenn man nicht die Grundregeln der Courtoisie (Höflichkeit) und Respekt anderen gegenüber besitzt ... dann ist der schönste Teller ein blödes A... Was für uns gilt, gilt auch für all...

ss NORMANDIE 1935-1942 VIII

  © coloured by Daryl LeBlanc by Earl of Cruise Auch wenn die die NORMANDIE nicht mehr existiert, ihre Präsenz ist noch immer zu spüren! Sie ist Anspruch und Messlatte geworden. Sie beinflusste die Designer der QUEEN MARY 2 und die Schiffe der DISNEY CRUISE LINES, wie DISNEY MAGIC oder DISNEY WONDER. Das HOTEL NORMANDIE in San Juan, Puerto Rico - es wurde 1942 als Homage an das `Schiff der Schiffe´ erbaut. Originale Kunstwerke der NORMANDIE von Jean Dunand reisen wieder an Bord der CELEBRITY SUMMIT von CELEBRITY CRUISES mit über die Sieben Meere. Dort können die Gäste im Restaurant `SS NORMANDIE´ speisend über die Meere dahingleiten. THE CARNEGIE MUSUEM in Pittsburg und THE METROPOLITAIN MUSEUM in New York stellen Artefakte von der NORMANDIE in ihren Räumen aus. Das MIOTTEL MUSEUM in Berkley, Califonien hat eine der größten Sammlungen von Gegenständen und Kunstwerken die einst für die NORMANDIE gefertigt werden. Darunter ein Halbmodel der NORMANDIE, welche...

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ss NORMANDIE 1935 - 1942 IX

s s / te NORMANDIE starting from cold Owners: COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE BUILDERS: PENH Ö ET, St. Nazaire, France   by Stephen Carey © , editing by Earl of Cruise   This document is almost exclusively about the engineering aspects of NORMANDIE , mainly on how to start her up from cold. If you are looking for photos of the passenger spaces, there is a plethora of them on the web, in Facebook groups - Admirers of the ss Normandie , ss Normandie photographic file , The French Ocean Liners / Les Paquebots Fran ç ais , ss Normandie , GREAT LINERS OF THE PAST & PRESENT , and others, Pinterest and in articles about NORMANDIE here in the blog, please see at the end of the article. Using "ss" for NORMANDIE is quite incorrect, as NORMANDIE was a Turbo Electric vessel and not a steamship, therefore NORMANDIE should be adressed as "te".   by Earl of Cruise te / ss NORMANDIE berthed in Le Havre, Gare Maritime May 29th, 1935 - colouring courtesy ...

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HISTORY - Italian TITANIC - The sinking of ss PRINCIPESSA MAFALDA

Despite rms TITANIC , ss PRINCIPESSA MAFALDA somehow has disappeared into the mists of time. Except for a small group of followers. This is mostly a reflection of the fact, that it was an Italian ship, carrying a complement that was almost exclusively Latino. The disaster of the MORRO CASTLE was a less significant event, and yet the amount of information and coverage, even today, is exponentially greater. Earl of Cruise by João Martins , editing by Earl of Cruise The Italian "rms TITANIC", ss PRINCIPESSA MAFALDA - Source: Wikipedia D espite the sinking of the ss ANDREADORIA 30 years later being much better known, the greatest tragedy in Italian shipping and largest ever in the Southern Hemisphere in peacetime was the sinking of the ss PRINCIPESSA MAFALDA in 1927.  Builder Cantiere Riva Trigoso, Riva Trigoso No. 42 Launching 22. Oktober 1908 Commissioning 30. März 1909 25. Oktober 1927 su...

Ocean Liners in Movies or Films at Sea (updated Nov 2017)

For liners and the shipping companies movies and films had been a top marketing tool Movies or Films and liners at sea, had been intriguing me since I have read about in my youth in LUXUSLINER - BILDER EINER GROSSEN ZEIT by Lee Server ( THE GOLDEN AGE OF OCEAN LINERS ). But earlier, mot only since my first crossing, I was keen watching movies with liners in it, and disapointed, which was an understatement, when I realized the films have been made in a set ashore in some movie "factory". That was after my first crossing.   by Earl of Cruise an essay in progress `Sabrina´, Humphrey Bogart in the office, while LIBERTÉ is sailing out of New York harbor - screenshot Ocean liners, especially those of the luxury category, had been the location of dramas, love stories, thrillers, suspense and catastrophies sinde film was born, or nearly. In this list, the most descriptions are taken from Wikipedia, as I guess no one can expect having seen all these films ... otherwise I w...

HISTORY - The CUNARD - WHITE STAR Liner rms QUEEN ELIZABETH (1938-1972)

Over years, in my early youth, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was shaping my mind for the perfect ocean liner, despite having made my first experiences with a liner onboard the HANSEATIC (1), ex EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND, ex EMPRESS OF JAPAN. When leaning at the rail of HANSEATIC entering the port, my eyes where every where and I wished to by a camera, I took all in. And when seeing the QUEEN ELIZABETH with my own eyes, the nice behaving young boy turned into a tomboy, that my grandmére was no longer able to tame ... I did draw quite a lot of looks, back then. I found, while on research, this article and thought it interesting publishing in my blog: written and published by John Sheperd at liverpoolships.org editing and comments by Earl of Cruise I ( John Shepard ) joined the CUNARD LINE in March 1962 as an Assistant Purser and sailed the QUEEN ELIZABETH throughout that year, before transferring to the Liverpool-based CARINTHIA in November, where I remained as Crew Purser for the next five...

HISTORY - ts / ss BREMEN and ts / ss EUROPA

Germany’s two luxury liners, BREMEN and EUROPA , have not only played an important part in their country’s mercantile revival, but have added also an immortal chapter to the history of transatlantic travel. Copy from Shipping Wonders of the World   From part 6 , published 17 March 1936 editing by Earl of Cruise ss / ts BREMEN in her early years - Source: Shipping Wonders of the World/Bundespresse Archiv The PRIDE OF A NATION - the NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD quadruple-screw turbine express liner BREMEN . The keel of this ship was laid in June 1927. Her launch took place in August, 1928. In less than a year later, the Bremen made her first voyage to America, when she crossed the Atlantic from Cherbourg to New York in four days seventeen hours forty-two minutes, thus setting up a new record and gaining the coveted “Blue Riband”. During the passage the Bremen attained an average speed of 27.83 knots. ss / ts BREMEN in her early years - Source: W ikipedia For the pop...

HISTORY - FRENCH LINE - COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE, a review - Part II Belle Epoque

The COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE, known since the Belle Epoque as FRENCH LINE in the English speaking world (or TRANSAT or CGT), had its origins in 1861.  by Earl of Cruise E mperor Napoléon III. wanted strengthening the French primacy on the oceans and an adequate mail line for the French mail. The 1855 established COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE MARITIME of the Péreire brothers was the core for the new company. This company´s headquarter was, as any major business in France, situated in Paris, while the homeport of the vessels had been Le Havre for the North Atlantic and Marseille for the route to the Orient and Africa. Houseflag of COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE S.A. - soure: ebay "On   limited space, we put our country on display", a crewmember declared once. And no other line put in more of its national personality into its product than COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE . After the French - Prussian/German war of 1870/71 France had to sig...

HISTORY - AUSTRO AMERICANA the Austro-Hungary shipping line into the new world

Not many know about the Austro-Hungary shipping line, AUSTRO AMERICANA , which sailed out of Trieste to the Americas. Austro-Hungary and shipping? You may ask ... you may have heard about Vienna Walz, coffe house culture, Hotel Sacher and its famous chocolate cake, the Prater, chateau Schönbrunn, the Fiakers - the famous horse carriages and such things. But passenger shipping lines? There has been AUSTRO AMERICANA and ÖSTERREICHISCHER LLOYD , renamed in LLOYD TRIESTINO after 1918 and after purchased by EVERGREEN renamed in Italia Marittima. The actual company ÖSTERREICHISCHER LLOYD is a new formed management company situated in Austria.   by Earl of Cruise KAISER FRANZ JOSEH I. the biggest liner of AUSTRO AMERICANA - own collextion Parts of my family lived for a long time in the Austro-Hungary empire, which can be qualified as a "United Nations of the Balkan". Having traces into Austria-Hungay, the realm of Hungary in special, it is a pleasure for me making thes...

HISTORY - Traveling with airliner LZ 129 HINDENBURG was the most luxurious airtravel

The real airliner LZ 129 HINDENBURG enabled the most luxurious airtravel for decades. Imagine, gliding through the air while the landscape or the sea below can be seen ... LZ 129 HINDENBURG marks the climax of airship construction. On May 6, 1937, the story of civilian airship ended in a tragedy. In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the largest flying object and has been with the similar sized LZ 130 GRAF ZEPPELIN II the most luxurious of all time. How this came about can be reconstructed logically, a series of fatal physics concatenations . The airship LZ 129 HINDENBURG marks the climax of airship construction. It was in its time the fastest and most exclusive traveling object between Europe and America. The challenges of the construction of the giant of the heaven were immense. by Earl of Cruise LZ 129 HINDENBURG, 1936, in Lakehurst - digital copy of a coloured cover photo, originally by Bill Schneider, published in Dan Grossman´s book ` ZEPPELIN HINDENBURG: AN ILLUSTRATED HI...

HISTORY - ADRIA the Hungarian ocean steam navigation company

The ocean steam navigation company ADRIA was the Hungarian example for the seacabilities of the empire of Austro-Hungary. The company showed more than the average image of Hungary than czárdás , puszta romantic, gypsy ( now political correct: Romani and Sinti ) violinists and other k.u.k. romanticisms. The employees serving proud ADRIA had been all from Hungary ( Magyarország [ˈmɒɟɒrorsaːɡ]  ( listen )) .   by Earl of Cruise FERENCZ JÓZSEF KIRÁLY -  © Dr. Tamás Balogh ADRIA MAGYAR KIRÁLY TENGERHAJÓZÁSI RÉSZVÉNYTÁRSÁG (KÖNIGLICHE UNGARISCHE SEESCHIFFAHRTS A.G. ADRIA / ADRIA ROYAL HUNGARIAN SEA NAVIGATION Co. Inc. ADRIA) Logo of ADRIA - Source: Wikipedia Besides AUSTRO-AMERICANA and ÖSTERREICHISCHER LLOYD / LLOYD AUSTRIACO the empire of Austria-Hungary had a third major shipping company - ADRIA, MAGYAR TENGERHAJÓZÁI RÉSZVÉNYTÁRSÁSÁG ( ROYAL HUNGARIAN SEA NAVIGATION Co. Inc. ADRIA), the Hungarian line out of Fiume/Rijeka. ADRIA became the mos...