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E NEWS SUPPLEMENT...by Bill Miller
| February 28,2011 |
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Greetings!
To all of our members who took the time to comment on our "new and improved" version of our popular supplement to our printed monthly publication Ocean & Cruise News many thanks! The company used to send these emails show that our "Open Rate" and "Click Rate" are far far above not only our own industry average, but above all their industry averages. Very impressive. It seems almost everyone one checked out Bill's two captivating writings... "Along the Boat Deck" (his historical "Look Back" at the ships of yesteryear) and "Scribblings..." his journal of his current cruise experiences. This journal is often updated in between issues of this supplement so you have some great reading ahead! As always our great thanks to Bill! We hope to continue to enhance our online newsletter as we grow more accustomed to the new system and format. We ask that you help us in this regard. At the very bottom of this email is a link that says "Update Profile/Email Address" PLEASE click this link and help us by adding or updating any missing information. You may also use this link to change your email address at any time should you so desire Thank You! Tom Cassidy |
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Grand start!
High finance! The business section in the New York Times reported recently that, through the intricacies of the American Federal tax system, the huge Carnival Corporation pays only little more than 1% in US taxes on its otherwise huge income
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The Fifth in a class 
The CMA CGM Magellan has entered worldwide cargo service. Built in South Korea, the 150,000-ton vessel has space for a dozen passengers as well. |
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 Delphin Cruise Line - Tough Times!
German, niche cruise operator Delphin has gone bust. Their chartered ship, the 21,000-grt Delphin Voyager, has stopped sailing & been returned to her Greek owners. A second ship, the Delphin, has also been yanked from cruise service. |
Congratulations in design! 
There are portholes on the inside cabins aboard the brand new, 3,750-berth Disney Dream. The portholes include a live video feed from the outside |
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 Reunion Time!
Ships' crew, who sailed on Furness Bermuda Line's Queen of Bermuda and Ocean Monarch in the 1950s and early 1960s, are reuniting on Saturday 14 May 2011 at The Merchant Seaman 's War Memorial Society in southern England.
"Following the success of our first reunion in 2009, we are hoping to find more shipmates from across the globe for this next one," says Bill Cox, reunion organizer, "especially with the help of our own website at www.furnessbermudaline.com"
Queen of Bermuda and Ocean Monarch departed on Saturday afternoons from Pier 95 on New York's Hudson River to make the 700-mile voyage to Bermuda. Stephen Card, born in Bermuda and renowned for his paintings of these and other ships, will be guest speaker at the reunion. He recalls "the many Monday mornings when I would arrive by ferry in Hamilton and, instead of rushing to school, wait to watch the Queen slowly come alongside at No 1 dock. On Wednesday afternoons, as sailing time approached, her triple-chime steam whistles could be heard all over the island."
He adds, "Queen of Bermuda was particularly famous for her profile. Her grey hull and white superstructure were topped with three graceful red and black funnels and she was the only liner in history to have sailed with three, two and, from 1962, one funnel" |
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 Growth!
As a fleetmate to the highly-praised Europa, the Europa II has been ordered from the STX Shipyard in France. |
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 Three blasts on the great whistle!
Congratulations to this Seattle-based cruise line for having one of the very best in-house magazines. |
Los Angeles 
Tourist attraction! Warships, especially old, heroic ones, seem to be endlessly popular. Little boys with their fathers going for a visit on a weekend afternoon seem to be an endless parade. The Port of Los Angeles is bidding with the US Navy for the 887-ft long battleship USS Iowa. Built at the end of the Second World War, the ship is currently mothballed near San Francisco, at Suisun Bay, California. |
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 Ocean Liner Collectibles
At a recent New York City auction, a written account by a survivor of the Lusitania's sinking sold for $475. That famed Cunarder was torpedoed in May 1915, while on an eastbound voyage from New York to Liverpool, by a German U-boat. A staggering 1,198 perished including some 150 "neutral" Americans. |
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Ocean Liner History
Fifty years ago, the great Cunard Line was facing a massive competitor: the airlines and, in particular, with speedy aircraft. After retiring the 30-yr old Britannic in December 1960, further changes came soon. The combination passenger-cargo liners Media & Parthia, with 250 all-first class berths each, were being sold off. During 1961, the Media would join Italian owners, the Cogedar Line, and become the Australian immigrant ship Flavia & be totally rebuilt with 1200 beds; the Parthia would remain under the British flag, being sold to the New Zealand Shipping Co to become the Remuera for London-Panama Canal-Auckland-Wellington service. Meanwhile, replacing these ships on Cunard's Liverpool-New York run, the 900-passenger Sylvaniawas being moved off the Liverpool to Montreal service. But further change were ahead. The larger, 1,200-passenger Mauretania was struggling and had to cancel some passengers because of too few passengers while the giant Queen Elizabeth, with over 2,200 capacity, arrived at New York's Pier 90 on a winter sailing with a mere 175 passengers onboard.
Copies of Mr Ocean Liner, the story of a boy (Bill Miller) who becomes fascinated by the great ocean liners, are now available. Please go to www.mroceanliner.com |
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Sound the trumpets!
The new, 65,000-ton Marina had a gala inaugural in early February. She was preceded as "New Ships of 2011" came on line by the Disney Dream. Others coming into cruise service include the Carnival Magic in May, the Seabourn Quest in June and then, during July, the Costa Favolosa and Celebrity Silhouette. |
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Planting a seed! 
Rumor is that Regent is thinking of a newbuild of about 50-60,000 tons & carrying some 750 passengers. |
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 On the horizon!
And speaking of new ships, RCI is said to be busily planning "something new & different" in the wake of the 225,000-ton sisters Oasis of the Seas & Allure of the Seas. This new build will not be bigger, however, but more of an innovative, groundbreaking ship. |
 New York!
In case you've sailed in or out of the Hudson River lately, you might have noticed barges & a big floating crane moored in mid-river just off Jersey City. It has been there for months. Well, mystery solved! The tunnels for the PATH subway system to & from Manhattan and New Jersey are being reinforced with new steel shells. DecoDence: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie at the South Street Seaport Museum: I am the curator of a very special exhibit that will run through the end of this year. It is a stunning collection of artifacts & decorative items from the grandest Atlantic super liner of all, the French Normandie. The 83,000-ton, 1,028-foot long Normandie was not only the largest and most powerful in a long list of great French ocean liners, but she was also by far the most luxurious and innovative. Externally, she was one of the best-looking liners ever created - she was streamlined, raked and rounded, and capped by three plump funnels done in the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique's red and andblack. Very advanced in design, she was one of the most modern-looking ocean greyhounds of her day. Within, she was lavishly decorated - Aubusson carpets, Dupas glass panels and Lalique "towers of light." Her first class restaurant was done in bronze and hammered glass,0illuminated by great chandeliers (again by Lalique) and sat 700 guests at 150 tables. The wines were included in the fare, the service impeccable and the food, of course, was the finest at sea. "You can never, ever diet on the French Line," aptly pointed out a Company brochure. Everything about the Normandie was totally and purposefully French, down to the packets of matches in the bars and the notepaper and envelopes in the writing room. Seaport Museum New York, 12 Fulton St. Thru mid early April, open Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Admission, $12, adults; $10, students/seniors; $8, children, 5-12. Children under 5 and Museum members, free. For more information, call 212-748-8786 |
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About Bill Miller 
Bill Miller is considered an international authority on the subject of ocean liners & cruise ships. This includes those great ships of the past, those "floating palaces," as well as the current generation of cruise ships, the "floating resorts". Called "Mr. Ocean Liner," he has written over 60 books on the subject: from early steamers, immigrant ships and liners at war to other titles on their fabulous interiors, in post card form and about the highly collectible artifacts from them. He has done specific histories of such celebrated passenger ships as the United States, Queen Mary, Rotterdam, France, Queen Elizabeth 2, Costa Victoria, Super Star Leo and Crystal Serenity.
In all, he has also written over 1,000 articles for newspapers, magazines and nautical journals & newsletters. He even has his very own ocean liner quarterly, the Millergram. He has made nearly 300 voyages to date: Atlantic crossings, tropical cruises, coastal runs and even trips on container cargo ships and exotic banana boats. He has appeared in some three dozen video & television series, both in the USA, Britain, Europe and Australia, including Castles of the Sea, The Floating Palaces, The Superliners, Inside the World of a Cruise Ship, Disasters at Sea and Deco: Age of Glamor. He has also appeared on The Today Show, CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America and many other news broadcasts. He has been guest lecturer aboard over 50 different liners, sailing with the likes of Crystal Cruises, Cunard, Carnival, Holland America, Princess, Radisson-Seven Seas, Saga Cruises and others. Miller was a public school teacher, in middle school and for social studies, for 32 years. He was named 'Teacher of the Year' in 2002.
Follow Bill's look back at ship's of yesteryear..
Heard Along the Boat Deck
And his current cruise experiences...
Scribblings |
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