Memory by Diane Kolyer: SS OLYMPIA I made at least two Atlantic crossings on OLYMPIA. My memories are mainly of people I met and things that happened on the trips. I have a 1966 Greek Line sailing schedule and a Greek Line deck plan from the same vintage in front of me, and still it’s [...]

Memory written Eva Silver:  S.S. WASHINGTON 1936 Munich was the city of my birth and where we lived. The number In our family was eight: six children, two parents. The Port of Embarkation was Hamburg and we arrived there a week before the scheduled departure date because we had heard that my father was about [...]

A CRUISE TO REMEMBER – The sinking of the SUN VISTA Sun Cruises, Singapore by Fred Burnett SUN VISTA (ex-GALILEO GALILEI, GALILEO, MERIDIAN) sank May 20, 1999 Built at Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy as GALILEO GALILEI for Lloyd Triestino SpA di Navigazione, Genoa 1961 Click here for ship’ history SUN VISTA, in her Sun [...]

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 health with emphysema, but he [...]

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 him and two others on [...]