1959 Cruise Ship

In 1960 Bremen carried approximately 28000 passengers across the Atlantic from Europe to the USA and back again.

1959 cruise ship. The Rotterdam was the last great Dutch ship of state employing the finest artisans from the Netherlands. Interior photos and small exterior photo. Photographs on these pages are from the authors private collection unless stated otherwise.

SS Rotterdam INDEX online to date. Sailings of Princess Louise. Troopship 19391945 then reverted to liner becoming a cruise ship in 1959 and scrapped in 1971.

As you can see below I have placed a plan from around the 1980s when the SS Rotterdam was operating mostly as a full time Cruise Ship sailing out of the USA. Beginning in 1960 the Bremen was also used in cruise service to the Caribbean and South America. Princess Cruises to Alaska - Summer 1959 - 7½ Day Cruises Vancouver to Skagway and Return by the Smooth Inside Passage Prince Rupert Ketchikan Juneau June-September 1959.

Construction her Maiden Voyage Sep 3 1959. SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company s ocean liners. The author has been in the passenger shipping industry since May 1960 and is now semi-retired but continues to write article on classic liners and cruise ships in order to better to inform cruise and ship enthusiasts for their pleasure.

Her Grey Hull days - Sep 1959 to 1971. The fifth SS Rotterdam also known as The Grande Dame is a former ocean liner and cruise ship and has been a hotel ship in Rotterdam Netherlands since 2010. Anthem of the Seas.

SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Companys ocean liners. She was built at Vickers-Armstrong Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria England and launched on 3 November 1959 by Princess. Includes itinerary rates and deck plan.