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Thank You 500,000 readers

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Cruise - Luxus auf großen Schiffen

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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 Schiffen u
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Crewing - Wir feiern und die Crew?

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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
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Design - Ist das Aussehen wichtig? Von Schiffen?

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

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

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

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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
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Germany and HAPAG - A Journey through History

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HAMBURG-AMERIKANISCHEPACKETFAHRT ACTIEN GESELLSCHAFT - HAPAG or HAMBURG AMERICA LINE is reflecting, as Germany, the LLOYD of Bremen, two times of rsing and two times of devasting downfall and a third rise. BORUSSIA , 1856, First Day Cover 1956 of Deutsche Bundespost - own collection Once Germany´s biggest shipping line HAPAG / HAMBURG-AMERIKANISCHE PACKETFAHRT ACTIEN GESELLSCHAFT-LLOYD, merged with it former old Hanseatic rival NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD in 1970, to now HAPAG-LLOYD, had its peaks and downs, but rose each time on its own to new hights, without any state subsidies. As German mail subsidiaries did never cover the costs for purchasing or mainting the vessels ordered for the specific German mail lines.   by Earl of Cruise In this article I used most German Wikipedia links, as they proved to be mostly of better research quality, and surprisinf to me, some English lines and liners have only German written articles, for the others, English Wiki links are to find
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Heritage - UNITED STATES LINES - a review

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In my UNITED STATES LINES historic review I want to show the rise and fall of the last national shipping and post line of the United States of America. by Earl of Cruise © UNITED STATES LINES The UNITED STATES LINES has been at first a transatlantic shipping company that operated passenger, mail and cargo services from 1921 to 1989. The passenger service with oceanliners was offered until 1969 - most famously by ss  UNITED STATES . The line became well known in the 1920s, when two valiant rescues were made. These ships involved have been the ss PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in 1926, and the ss AMERICA in 1929 both under the command by Captain George Fried . 19th Century Since the dramatic ending of the COLLINS LINE in mid 19th century, after successfully crossing the North Atlantic, there has not been any major US American steamship line. The congress was not able giving a push to any new entrepreneur to come. So foreign companies got the main share in post trading and passeng
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HISTORY - ts / ss BREMEN and ts / ss EUROPA

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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 populac
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Thank You 500,000 readers

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HISTORY - PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE - METEOR - STELLA POLARIS - Luxury Cruising of a Past Era

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The STELLA POLARIS, METEOR and PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE have been in their days the epitome of luxury cruising, a long past era. by Earl of Cruise, text passages from Alan Dumelow in 1900 inaugurated a new type of passenger vessel in Hamburg the PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE .  ss PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE, 1900, HAPAG, the first custom build cruise vessel in history - courtesy co loured by Daryl LeBlanc, Source: Wikipedia ( original seize ) The new vessel is the prototype for cruise vessels and especially all the Mega Yacht named ships, that play to be a Mega Yacht. This new type of vessel was initiated by the foreseeing genius of ALBERT BALLIN . While under construction tout Hamburg was wondering what BLOHM&VOSS was constructing for the genius ALBERT BALLIN, chairman of HAPAG . A common joke was, that he had ordered a privat yacht as he had become great-crazy. The more the small 4,409 GT vessel grew on the helling the more it was looking like a yacht for a super ri
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ss NORMANDIE 1935 - 1942 IX

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

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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
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