A CRUISE TO REMEMBER – The sinking of the SUN VISTA Sun Cruises, Singapore, a personal memory by Fred Burnett Built at Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy as GALILEO GALILEI for Lloyd Triestino SpA di Navigazione, Genoa 1961 SUN VISTA (ex-GALILEO GALILEI, GALILEO, MERIDIAN) sank May 20, 1999 MaritimeMatters: On…
M.V. COHO: 50 YEARS OF RELIABLE SERVICE by Shawn J. Dake Published December 2009. Photo credits, all photos by Shawn J. Dake c.2009 unless otherwise stated. For an ocean-going vessel to reach the age of 50 is quite an accomplishment. To span a career of over five decades under the…
SS LANE VICTORY Underway by Gordon Ghareeb First published on MaritimeMatters June 2008 She lies in waiting only 8,000-feet from where she was born. The warm Southern Californian sunshine beats down upon the gray-painted steel of her hull and upright superstructure. She epitomizes the euphemism of form following function. She…
by Sgt. Ken Sullivan, Indiana Sgt. Ken Sullivan sailed on the QUEEN MARY when he shipped out to World War II in 1944, at the age of 22. His daughter Barb, asked him to write his recollections of the crossing. “He is now 84 years old, and in very poor…
by Alan Zamchick My Maiden Voyage: A Recounting of the Queen Mary 2 Maiden Voyage January 12-26, 2004 by Alan Zamchick Fellow lister George Prince, whom I only briefly met attending the “final farewell” party on the SS NORWAY on September 5, 2001, offered me the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join…
