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Latest News for Members from Regent Seven Seas Cruises
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Regent Seven Seas Cruises has made a very special offer to members of the World Ocean & Cruise Liner Society for select voyages.
In order to learn more about this offer members must call Beth Schmidt at (800) 828 4813 ext 1009 and mention the special offer for members.
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E NEWS SUPPLEMENT...by Bill Miller
from aboard Queen Elizabeth
June 11, 2012
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Greetings!
Please remember we have two great voyages currently awaiting members who wish to join us for a hosted cruise, with more to follow;
First we welcome you to join us for a celebration of our friend, and maritime artist, Stephen Card's birthday aboard a short 4-day cruise aboard Princess Cruises' Caribbean Princess departing on October 27th, 2012
Next we have a wonderful cruise to benefit a great cause aboard the new Celebrity Reflection on January 26, 2013. This 7-Night WOCLS cruise will benefit the American Cancer Society a cause very close to the heart of our friend and writer (and former cruise line executive) Art Sbarsky. This very worthwhile project will see a portion of your fare donated to this cause and will be hosted by Art. The cruise will have many perks, benefits and of course great rates.
For either cruise please call our coordinator Beth Schmidt at (800) 828 4813 ext 1009 for more details details. still looking for a great cruise experience in 2012 and want to know more about this special offer for members, please call Beth at (800) 828 4813 ext 1009. She will be happy to give you all the details.
Sincerely!
Tom Cassidy
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Canada - Moving berths! 
The preserved, 1907-built Keewatin is moving this month - from Saugatuck in Michigan to Port McNicoll near Toronto. The 3,500-ton, former Canadian Pacific steamer will be part of a new resort complex.
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Cargo - Crossing the bar!
98-yr old Maersk Mckinney-Moller, the Danish shipowner who shaped the world's largest shipping company, the Maersk Line, died last April in Copenhagen. |
Indian Ocean waters!
The Costa Atlantica will offer 3, 4 & 5 night cruises from India in the spring of 2013.
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 Wedding bells.....and whistles!
On Apr 30th, Dr. William DeLuca became the first American to wed aboard Cunard's flagship Queen Mary 2 since the company unveiled its Weddings Programme in April. DeLuca, an anesthesiologist from Massachusetts met British executive chef Kelly Lewis one year ago while visiting England. Unable to decide between marrying in the U.S. or U.K., the couple chose to wed halfway between the two during a trans-atlantic crossing aboard Queen Mary 2.
Both first-time cruisers, the DeLucas were delighted to blow the ship's noon whistle with Captain Oprey, enjoyed a tableside serenade by the servers in the Britannia Restaurant while cutting their wedding cake, and celebrated their first dance in the Queens Room that evening. "We were very pleased to welcome Dr. Deluca and Kelly aboard Queen Mary 2 and congratulate them on their wedding," said Captain Kevin Oprey. "Cunard and the ship's staff were honoured that they chose both to sail their first cruise with Cunard, and to be married aboard one of our crossings. It was a pleasure to preside over their wedding and we wish them all the best in their new life together."
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| Elegant Cruises - Changing hands! The 2,500-ton Andrea, built back in 1960 as the Norwegian coastal ship Harald Jarl & later converted for cruising by Croatian owned Elegant Cruises, has been bankrupt and idle in recent years. Now it seems she has been sold, auctioned off in fact, and will return to service as the Serenissima for a new operator, Premier Cruises. |
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 Los Angeles - On the beach!
Our good friend Martin Cox, a superb photographer, has organized a photo exhibition entitled Stranded: The Twilight of the Ocean Liner. It is all about the scrapping in India of passenger ships & is being staged at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum (1-310-548-7618). Opening reception is Sat Jun 16th.
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End of the Line! 
The 12,200-ton Sapphire has gone to Indian shipbreakers after a long, diverse career begun in 1967. She was built as the Italia & then sailed under charter to then new Princess Cruises as the Princess Italia. She began sailing for Costa in 1973, and then joined Ocean Cruise Lines as their Ocean Princess in 1983. After nearly being lost in the Amazon in 1993, she was sold to Louis & rebuilt as the Sapphire. Her last employment was in the Mediterranean.
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 Delivery!
MSC has taken delivery of the MSC Preziosa, a 140,000-grt ship that is the largest in their fleet. A sister to the MSC Divina, the Preziosa was intended for a Libyan cruise venture but that did not materialize.
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 All aboard!
I'm narrating a harbor cruise along the Hudson River, entitled An Architectural Tour Up the Hudson River. It is sponsored by OHNY - that's for Open House New York. We cast off on Thu June 28th 6:30pm leaving from Pier 40 at the foot of Houston and West Streets on the Husdon River on board the brand new Hornblower Hybrid.Cost is $35plus $2.00 registration /handling fee. Retuning approx 8:30pm (you can email Jessica@ohny.org for a reservation (boat sells out quickly )
An Architectural Tour Up the Hudson River highlighting classic architecture , historic landmarks , some of the great mansions of upper Manhattan, and a plethora of modern architecture that are sprouting up of the west side including Frank Gehry's IAC corporate headquarters , Jean Nouvel's new apartment house , the Standard Hotel, and of course the new Highline elevated park to name a few.
Waterside structures! Join maritime historian & author (over 80 books) Bill Miller -- and also known as "Mr Ocean Liner" -- as we cruise along the lower Hudson. Bill & others will narrate -- all about great & more interesting structures, both old & new, along both sides of the Hudson. We will be regaled with stories, vignettes, personal anecdotes about the history of waterside structures -- the World Trade Center, the Starrett-Lehigh Bldg, Pier 40, Frank Gehry's IAC offices, the Jean Novel residential towers. And quite timely for the 100th anniversary: Pier 54, where the survivors from the Titanic landed.
We will also pass the site of the new Whitney Museum, the Chelsea Piers, Luxury Liner Row and the long-gone Coney Island-of-New Jersey, Palisades Amusement Park. We'll also see the grandeur of the great mansions, estates & majestic apartment towers that line the waterfront on both sides. Another great, grand & unique OHNY tour! The whistles are sounding -- join us on Thu Jun 28th.
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Ocean Liner Collectibles - Viking Liners!
A large travel agent-style poster of the brand new Oslofjord of 1948 & the Norwegian America Line sold recently for $900.
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 Ocean Liner History - Circumnavigation!
The 90-day world cruise aboard Holland America's Rotterdam departed from New York on Jan 10th 1980. Minimum fare was $11.080.
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SS United States - Sixty Years ago! 
On July 3rd 1952, the brilliant United States set off from New York's Pier 86 on her record-breaking maiden voyage - 3 ˝ days to Southampton, England at a speed of over 39 knots. The 990-footer was the fastest ship afloat, the winner of the prized Blue Ribbon. To celebrate the event, the SS United States Conservancy is planning lots of events including the lighting of the ship's twin funnels. The 53,000-ton ship lingers at a Philadelphia berth awaiting some form of revival, most likely as a moored museum ship.
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WORLD OCEAN & CRUISE LINER SOCIETY'S
HOSTED CRUISES
One of the great things about being a World Ocean & Cruise Liner Society member is joining us aboard one of our "Hosted" member cruises. Each cruise features low group rates, special amenities plus onboard lectures and events
Queen Mary 2 - Independence Day Cruise
July 1, 2012 - Call for Current Rates
Queen Mary 2 - Canada / New England (11 Nights)
Sep 21, 2012 - Call for Current Rates
Caribbean Princess - Bermuda (4 Nights)
Stephen Card's Birthday Celebration
Oct 27, 2012 - Call for Current Rates
Celebrity Reflection - Caribbean (7 Nights)
WOCLS cruise benefitting the American Cancer Society
with Art Sbarsky
Caribbean (7 Nights)
January 29, 2013 - Call for Current Rates
*Rates are per person based on double occupancy.
Government fees are additional.
For Reservations and Information Call WOCLS Group Coordinator Beth Schmitt at (800) 828 4813 Ext 1009
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About Bill Miller 
Bill Miller is an international authority on the subject of ocean liners & cruise ships --- from those "floating palaces" of yesteryear to the current generation of cruise ships, the "floating resorts". Called "Mr. Ocean Liner," he has written some 80 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 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 450 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 Super Liners, 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 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.
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, deputy director of the New York Harbor Festival, served 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 1,500 miniature ship models, most of them being passenger ships.
By 2011, 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. In 2011, he hosted Cinematic Crossings: Ocean Liners on the Big Screen, a 5-day film festival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Currently, he spends some 200 days a year lecturing onboard ocean liners & cruise ships.
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!
Busy scribbling! Our good friends Anthony Cooke & John Maxtone-Graham have new titles out on the shelves. London-based Anthony has just released Favourite British Liners with 216 pages & 216 photos (96 of them in color). Check through Mainmast Books in the UK. Meanwhile, Manhattan-homeported John has just finished a new title on the immortal Titanic. It was published by W W Norton & Company.
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.
Great Passenger Ships 1910-1920
It was an age of evolution, when size and speed were almost the ultimate considerations. 'Bigger was said to be better' and ship owners were not exempted from the prevailing mood. While the German four-stackers of 1897-06 and then Cunard's brilliant Mauretania & Lusitania of 1907 led the way to larger and grander liners. White Star Line countered by 1911 with the Olympic, her sister Titanic and a near-sister, the Britannic. The French added the France while Cunard took delivery of the beloved Aquitania. But the Germans won out -- they produced the 52,000-ton Imperator and a near-sister, the Vaterland, the last word in shipbuilding and engineering prior to the First World War. They and their sister, the Bismarck, remained the biggest ships in the world until 1935.
But other passenger ships appear in this decade --- other Atlantic liners, but also ships serving on more diverse routes: Union Castle to Africa, P&O to India and beyond, the Empress liners on the trans-Pacific run. We look at a grand age of maritime creation, ocean-going superlative, but also sad destruction in the dark days of the First War. It was, in all ways, a fascinating period.
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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