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E NEWS SUPPLEMENT...by Bill Miller
| September 12, 2011 |
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Greetings!
Welcome to the latest issue of our Enews Suppement to Ocean & Cruise News. I hope you enjoy it!
Sincerely!
Tom Cassidy |
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 Celebration!
New Orleans-based Norman Wigle is a loyal Carnival passenger. He has had 53 cruises with the Company to date. But his most recent trip was special: he celebrated his 100th birthday onboard. |
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 Join me!
I am aboard two upcoming, deluxe voyages on the ever-wonderful Crystal Cruises. Set sail with me from magical Manhattan on Tue Oct 25th, bound for Bermuda & the sunny Caribbean, aboard the 940-bed Crystal Symphony. I can assure you that this 50,000-ton beauty is one of the best served, best fed & best entertained ships on all the seas! And oh, best maintained & run as well! Then, on Dec 8th, join me for a classic mid-Atlantic crossing --- the "sunny southern route," as they used to call it --- and sail from Lisbon on Thu Dec 8th. This time it is aboard the slightly larger, but equally splendid and just refitted Crystal Serenity and stopping as Casablanca, Teneriffe & St Maarten before finishing at Miami on Dec 21st. There's an added bonus on this trip: lots of idyllic sea days! |
Getting there is half the fun! 
I have just crossed, going eastbound, on the mighty Queen Mary 2. She's one of my top favorite ships and of course embodies the great 171-year history of Cunard: from paddle steamers to four-stackers, millionaires and movie stars to immigrants and wartime soldiers. No company had more famous passenger liners. The age of the original Queen Mary & Queen Elizabeth led to the 39-year career of the Queen Elizabeth 2 and now to the grand era of the Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria & Queen Elizabeth. I am, this week, connecting at Southampton for an immediate return --- westbound on the Queen Elizabeth. Two Queens in two weeks! It is sheer perfection, ocean liner history relived & rekindled and of course a wonderful venue for my talks on the great liners past & present. Quite timely, Cunard has just introduced a new sales program: "Feel Famous, Sail Cunard". It is a grand reminder of the grand era: from red carpets and large lounges & salons, top deck suites and dogs in the only kennel left at sea (that's on the Queen Mary 2's crossings), name entertainment and ballroom dancing in chandeliered rooms. The three current Queens just ooze ocean liner history & the romance of yesteryear! |
 New venture!
Known for their British & Scottish isles cruises aboard the 48-passenger Hebriden Princess, this UK-firm has branched out --- to Rhine & Danube river cruising aboard the 79-bed Royal Crown. |
Possible change! 
Before the deepening problems for the Gadhafi regime, Libya was planning to build two giant cruise liners. Construction on the first, a 140,000-tonner carrying up to 3,478 passengers and to be named Phoenicia, has actually begun at the STX Shipyard at St Nazaire in France. Now, with Libyan interests turned elsewhere, MSC Cruises has expressed an interest in buying the incomplete vessel. |
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Ocean Liner Collectibles -Italian style!!
A photo album of black & white interior views of the 1926-built liner Roma, then one of the two largest & finest Italian Line passenger ships afloat, was offered recently for $1200. |
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Ocean Liner history - Re-routing!
Seattle-headquartered West Line decided, in the fall of 1971, to rename their 186-passenger Polar Star as the Pacific Star and use the 2,599-ton ship in year-round cruise service out of Papeete. |
 Hurricane damages!
Hurricane Irene raged along the Atlantic coast with great fury, ferocity & inflicting considerable damages. Among the damaged areas were the private islands used by well known cruise lines. These included Coco Bay of Royal Caribbean as well as Half Moon Cay (Carnival), Castaway Cay (Disney) & Great Stirrup Cay (Norwegian Cruise Lines). |
Join me! 
I am aboard the ultra-luxurious, 450-berth Seabourn Sojourn on Sep 21st, sailing from Quebec City on a 9-day itinerary to New York. We call at the Canadian Maritimes as well as Bar Harbor & Boston and I shall be giving talks on the great age of the grand liners as well as the evolution of cruising and the history of the Port of New York. |
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About Bill Miller 
Bill Miller is 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 75 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 had his very own ocean liner quarterly, the Millergram. He has made nearly 350 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, Deco: Age of Glamour, and Lady in Waiting: The Story of the SS United States. He has also appeared on The Today Show, CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, NBC Evening News 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 Americ
a, 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.
A native of Hoboken, New Jersey, the once busy port just across the Hudson River from New York City, Miller was named Outstanding American Maritime Scholar in 1994, received the United States Maritime Preservation Award and also the Ocean Liner Council's Silver Riband Award, both in 2004. Also, he has been chairman of the Port of New York Branch of the World Ship Society, serves on the selection committee for the American Maritime Hall of Fame, created the passenger ship database for the Ellis Island Museum and currently serves as Curator of 20th Century Maritime History at Manhattan's South Street Seaport Museum. He has also organized a 14-week college course on liners, and helped to create & then served as historian at the US Merchant Marine Museum. His private collection includes 4,000 books on ships, over 15,000 photos and some 1,000 miniature ship models, most of them being passenger ships.
By 2010, Miller had 10 new books in the works, was curator to Decodence (an exhibit at the South St Seaport on the design & décor of the grand French liner Normandie) and himself was the subject of a one-hour film documentary aptly titled Mr Ocean Liner. (Updated 8/10).
Follow Bill's look back at ship's of yesteryear..
Heard Along the Boat Deck
And his current and past cruise experiences...
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William Miller Books!
In the works! The presses are rolling over in England, at the History Press. I've penned a short, 10,000-word overview of passenger ships entitled The Great Liners. It should be out soon. It will be followed, at the same publishing house, by Great Passenger Ships 1910-20 and then Great American Passenger Ships. Happily, my finger keeps on typing ... and happily, there are still photos and anecdotes and maybe something new to be shared.
Another new book project! Happily, I have been signed to do another edition of the Classic Liners series for the History Press over in the UK. In the wake of our book on the Caronia, Cunard's "Green Goddess," this project will deal with two of the most popular, most beloved post-Second World War French liners, the Ile de France & Liberte. The Ile was built for the French but back in 1927; the larger Liberte came to them as post-war reparations, having been the German Europa of 1930. The Ile sailed the Atlantic between 1949 and 1958; the Liberte ran between 1950 and 1961. They transported thousands on the regular run between New York, Southampton or Plymouth and Le Havre, and even had occasional cruises. They were of course predecessors to the much larger, faster France, commissioned in 1962. If any of our readers has anecdotes, reflections, comments and shared materials on these great liners, please contact me through Ocean & Cruise News.
On the horizon! Brian Hawley is penning a new book, filled with lots of photos, about the Olympic, the White Star liner completed in 1911 and sister to the infamous Titanic
Ocean liners in words & pictures! An updated list of my published ocean liner books ... and available thru bmce48@yahoo.com.
Last Atlantic Liners: Getting There is Half the Fun (Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2011
RMS Caronia: Cunard's Green Goddess
(co-authored with Brian Hawley) The History Press Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2011
Floating Palaces: The Great Atlantic Liners(Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2011
Great British Passenger Ships (The History Press Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2010)
SS Nieuw Amsterdam: The Darling of the Dutch (Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2010)
Cunard's Three Queens: A Celebration (Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2009)
Under the Red Ensign: British Passenger Liners of the '50s & '60s (The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2009)
SS United States: Speed Queen of the Seas (Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2009)
And yet to come.....
Great Passenger Ships 1910-20 (The History Press Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, due Sep 2011)
I Was Born in Hoboken: Memories of the 1950s & '60s (Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, NJ, due fall 2011)
Along the Hudson: Great Passenger Ships at New York in Photos (Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, due 2012)
The Last Great Dynasty: The Royal House of Windsor (Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, due 2012)
Great Atlantic Liners of the 20th Century in Color (co-authored with Anton Logvinenko; Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, due 2012)
Great American Passenger Ships (The History Press Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, due 2012)
The Cunard Yanks (co-authored with Ian Wright; pending but due 2012)
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