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Thank You 500,000 readers

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Yachting - WHITE LADY - is a historic gem of KRUPP GERMANIA WERFT 1931

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WHITE LADY was build at KRUPP GERMANIA WERFT in 1931 as ARGOSY, in the middle of the, as Great Depression known financial crisis. While the New York Stock exchange crashed in 1929 and vast privat assets perished, states went into bancrupcy (2007 and the Financial Crisis is a repeat of, nearly) some could still afford building a new private pleasure yacht. by Earl of Cruise WHITE LADY drawing by the designer - courtesy Nicolo Picardo W HITE LADY is a rare opportunity to purchase a true catch-eyes yacht. When finished, she could become a highly popular charter yacht, or be equally suited for private use. The asking price today is € 3.000.000 not including Fee of brokerage and VAT. WHITE LADY state prior to rebuilding into a classic designed yacht, her bowsprit missing and prepared for the new adding of a salon WHITE LADY with her unfinished new salon © Nicolo Picardo WHITE LADY with her unfinished new salon © Nicolo Picardo WHITE LADY has been rebuild and re...
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HISTORY - EUGENIO C. Liner to South America, liner and cruise icon

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One of the icons amoung the cruise ships and liners is EUGENIO C. of LINEA C, later COSTA CRUISES by Earl of Cruise tn EUGENIO C. of LINEA C. steaming in her first years on the South Atlantic at full speed, 27 kts EUGENIO C. was one of these samples of pristine Italian design and quality, what was referred to as: "Give an Italian a piece of steel and he is forming the most beautiful art of." Unfortunately EUGENIO C. ended as so many liners and to cruise ships converted vessels in Alang in 2005. The Coasta family had its origin in the olive oil business and started its shipping business with a tanker. Even if not a success from the beginning, the family did stick to its move into the shipping busines. The first passenger ship was integrated into the fleet when there was a flood of enigrants wishing to leave the country destroyed by WWII. It was a chance for the Costa family and so they decided in 1946 buying three ships from LUCKENBACH STEAMSHIP Co. for ...
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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 - HAMBURG-SÜD and the CAP express liner

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The CAP express liners of HAMBURG-SÜD, CAP FINISTERRE, CAP TRAFALGAR, CAP POLONIO and CAP ARCONA, are known worldwide for their luxury, renowned service on board and grandeur. Their successors of the 60s, the CAP SAN vessels, have not been that elegant, but truly first class and were known as the "White Swans" of the Atlantic. by Earl of Cruise HAMBURG-SÜD´s SANTA TERESA in Santos - courtesy HAMBURG-SÜD Since its formation in 1871, HAMBURG-SÜDAMERIKANISCHE DAMPFSCHIFFFAHRTS-GESELLSCHAFT ( HSDG or HAMBURG-SÜD ) has evolved from a conventional freight and passenger shipping company into a global operating transport logistics organisation. Today, it ranks among the world's ten largest container shipping lines and is one of the leading providers in the North-South trades. T ill recently it was a member of the successful Oetker Group, one of the largest and best-known family enterprises in Germany. The heirs and owners sold HAMBURG-SÜD to the Danish MAERSK Group ...
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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 pop...
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Books - Liner scale drawings the story of a long journey to LINERS

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Dr. Tamás Balogh told me his long journey with his new book `LINERS ´ of scaled liner drawings. Dr. Tamás Balogh, president of the Hungarian Association of Maritime History ( sorry only in Hungarian ) , Modeling and Tradition, member of the R.M.S. TITANIC Hungarian Research Group start to prepare a graphical presentation of the history of transoceanic passenger liners by scale drawings in 2002. The author leads us through the story from 1838 to the present day using more than 500 profile drawings of 280 liners from 40 shipping companies, with descriptions of the individual liners and the operating companies ( FaceBook LINERS ), which made the collection exceptionally abundant. The collection represents such rarely discussed topics as the history of the late Austro-Hungarian ocean liners or the planned, but ultimately cancelled giant passenger steamers. Earl of Cruise talked with the author, Dr. Tamás Balogh From info to digital art work, here shown for the KOAN MARU - digital ...
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Destinations - Sicily arts and history a cruise onboard ANDREA

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Because of an FB pruderie action I remembered a cruise to Sicily, its art and history showing, on board the late ANDREA. Cruise onboard ANDREA in the Mediterranean - a travel review. by Earl of Cruise   The Hercules monument in Kassel, which is listed in the UNESCO Worldheritage list! Delisted by FaceBook because of his "naked butt" ... ridiculous! overbearing! hypocritic! - courtsey GRIMM HEIMAT NORDHESSEN The Hercules monument in Kassel with a naked butt. Goes not at all, found Facebook. Now tourist administratives have put on a bathing suit. No one, neither the false US, or any other pruderie should be imposed on us European. And art is ART! Wether naked or not, and the prude and/or evangikalists have to withstand it. Period! The UNESCO Worldheritage HERKULES - Source: YouTube But it was reminding me on another statue, the charioteer of Mozia, which is now on loan in the BRITISH MUSEUM . But back to the cruise on board ANDREA , now SERENISSIMA, e...
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Ships of State - NIEUW AMSTERDAM, 1938, Ship of Peace and Ship of Tomorrow

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When NIEUW AMSTERDAM was launched 1937, she was one of the Ships Of State. Built as ship of peace and for tomorrow. These ships had been build by tax payers money, and had been somehow, as NORMANDIE , QUEEN MARY and QUEEN ELIZABETH , and others, may given the economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), after his model of deficit spending and the artificially created demand in times of recession, pride, as he could not have imagined any better ...   by Earl Cruise Nieuw Amsterdam, detail of a travelposter from 1938, pure Art Deco - own collection T he world was, when NIEUW AMSTERDAM was on the drawing board, still in the grip of the Great Depression , which started with the imploding of the stock bubble in New York on October 29th 1929, known as the Black Tuesday . This stock crash was the result of the irrational illusion, that money can create revenue on its own ... Nieuw Amsterdam, copy of a postcard, based on a painting - Source: ssmaritime.com To this day, ...
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Starting rms EMPRESS OF BRITAIN from cold

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rms EMPRESS OF BRITAIN, 1930, Cold Starting Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd., Builders: John Brown, Clydebank by Stephen Carey, editing by Earl of Cruise rms EMPRESS OF BRITAIN - own collection   1 Overview of the machinery spaces 1.1 Boiler rooms The ship is (or was) a quadruple screw Canadian Pacific liner fitted with two Scotch fire-tube boilers at 200lb/in 2 , one Johnson water-tube boiler and eight Yarrow 5-drum water-tube boilers, operating at 425lb/in 2 , 725 ° F superheated.   In SI units this converts to 13.8bar saturated (198 ° C) for the Scotch boilers, and 29bar, 385 ° C superheated.   At 29bar the saturated temperature is 234 ° C, so the boilers operate at 151 ° C superheat. The boilers are arranged in 2 boiler rooms, one forward and one aft, separated by oil fuel tanks. In the forward boiler room are the 2 Scotch boilers, the Johnson boiler and two Yarrow boilers.   In the aft boiler room are the remaining 6 Yarrow boilers.   A profi...
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Britain s Sleeper Trains - Enjoy a Revival

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A  revival of British Sleeper Trains is coming to enjoy us. by Alexander Naughton, editing by Earl of Cruise  Sleeper Trains epitomise the romance of travel and have a magic touch and cosmopolitan spirit to them as you go to sleep in one location and wake up refreshed in another. They are convenient, cost effective and environmentally friendly ways to travel. These lifeline trains allow people to make connections – for business, leisure and family – in a way that no other mode of transport can. In recent years, sleeper trains in Britain have experienced a great revival in their fortunes. Photo: Travel poster of LMS Night Scot sleeper train from London to Scotland Photo: Travel poster of LNER Night Scotsman sleeper train from London to Scotland However this is in direct contrast to what is happening with sleeper trains in Continental Europe where they seem to be in decline due to the advent of low cost air travel, development of high speed rail, lack of inves...
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