From Greene To Great The Great American Steamboat Company carries on a steamboat legacy with the reintroduction of the AMERICAN QUEEN By Shawn J. Dake The return of the AMERICAN QUEEN is more important than being just another travel option in the cruise industry. While European River Cruising continues to…
PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia, more commonly referred to as Pelni Lines, is something of an enigma in the modern maritime world. It is one of the very last shipping companies left that run true passenger liners on point to point liner routes. The Pelni passenger fleet consists of 23 large,…
Cruise West The Rise And Fall Of A Family Cruise Business A History Of The Company And It’s Origins In Alaska Cruise Lines, Westours and West Line By Shawn J. Dake Cruise West, a company that can trace it’s origin to the infancy of Alaska tourism, reached the end of…
The Los Angeles Steamship Company came into being around the purchase of two ships already famous on the West Coast; the YALE and HARVARD. These two vessels were originaly built for New York-Boston service, then later operated by Admiral Line on the West Coast before World War 1. The U.S.…
A brief history of Munson Steamship Line by Martin Cox Walter D. Munson established Munson Steamship Line in 1899 when he built a freight line Havana-New York service and then extended to include Eastern Cuba, Mexico and the gulf ports. Succeeded by his son Carlos Munson, then son Frank Munson…
A Stunningly Brief History of Matson Line: Captain William Matson began a shipping service between California and Hawaii in 1882 with the schooner EMMA CLAUDINA. Matson Navigation Company was incorporated in 1901 and its first passenger ship sailing was made by the steamer LURLINE in 1908. Larger passenger and freight…
A brief Company History by Martin Cox Union-Castle Line, famed for it's lavender hulled liners that ran on a clockwork timetable between Southampton and South Africa, began as two separate companies: Union Line and Castle Line.…
