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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
October 22, 2012
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Greetings!
To all those who used the link I included and renewed your membership last issue, many thanks!! I appreciate you helping us save postage and printing costs and renewing online.
If you haven't renewed yet, I have left the link below and encourage you to please renew online.
RENEW HERE
We are always welcoming new members so please consider signing up a friend. Although postage rates have almost doubled over the years we have not raised our rates in a decade. Please help us by renewing online
We now have yet another way to keep you updated on the world of cruising...our new Facebook page. While it's just a base today...we ask that you click the following link and give us a "Like" so we know its a worthwhile venture. We will then begin to add new content there as well
Please remember we have a great voyage 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 details please call our coordinator Beth Schmidt at (800) 828 4813 ext 1009 for more details.
Sincerely!
Tom Cassidy
ps...Our friends at Oceania Cruises have released a PDF calendar of their 2013/2014 sailings for members. You can get it by clicking here:
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Hear those whistles!
I hope you are one of several members joining me next month, on Nov 12th, for a grand trip back in time: cruising from St Louis to New Orleans for 7 nights on the classic American Queen. She's America's largest river boat & a world of grandeur, Mud Pie & Mint Juleps. I can hear that steam calliope sounding!
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Australia - Blue Star Properties - Moving Forward!
Australia's richest man, Clive Palmer, plans a lavish London press conference in early December to "launch" his Titanic II project. His plan is to build a modern replica of the White Star liner in a Chinese shipyard. A trans-Atlantic maiden crossing is said to be set for spring 2016. Soon afterward, a gala unveiling dinner will be held in Manhattan and including such guests as Caroline Kennedy & Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Convenience!
Carnival has introduced check-in service at Miami airport.
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Just arrived! The last of the highly acclaimed Solstice Class, the 122,000-ton Celebrity Reflection, was delivered by the German shipyard Meyer Werft on October 8th.
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Classic International Cruises - Troubled Times!
Lisbon-based Classic, a firm specializing in older, converted passenger ships and often linked to charter cruise service, has hit rough times. As of October 5th, all 4 of their liners had been "arrested" for debt. The Princess Daphne was idle in Crete, the Athena & Princess Danae at Marseilles and the Arion in Montenegro. A fifth ship, the Funchal, has been undergoing a long-delayed refit at Lisbon, but that project has been suspended as well.
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Jingle Bells & the New Year! 
Join me on the Christmas-New Year cruise from New York aboard the magnificent Queen Mary 2 ... or on her Jan 3rd NY-to-Southampton crossing ... or returning Jan 17th Southampton-to-NY on the Queen Victoria. Cunard, great history, the great liners, grandeur at sea! |
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Change in plans!
NCL has canceled all calls in Egypt between November and next April.
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Ocean Liner Collectibles - Ship of Disaster!
A life ring from the immortal Andrea Doria, the Italian liner that sank off Nantucket on July 26th 1956 after colliding with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm, was on auction recently. The ring fetched $7,000.
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Ocean Liner History - TV Drama!
A 1995 episode of Britain's favorite soap opera, Coronation Street, was filmed aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2. Soon afterward, an episode of the popular comedy Keeping Up Appearances was filmed aboard the iconic Cunarder
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Ocean & Cruise News
Current & Past Issues Members can download a PDF of current and past issues using the following links
Past Issues of this "new" Email Supplement beginning with the Feb. 21, 2011 issue can be found by clicking our logo below
The above listed items are copyrighted material and are for the exclusive use of paid members in good standing. Any unauthorized duplication, transmission or distribution of this material without the written permission of The World Ocean & Cruise Liner Society is strictly prohibited.
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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
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!
 Along the Hudson - luxury Liner Row in the 50's & 60's
In the 1950s and '60s, countless passenger liners called at New York and usually berthed at Luxury Liner Row along the City's West Side. The cast includes the Cunard Queens, the Ile de France & Liberte, United States, Independence, Gripsholm & Queen of Bermuda. It is a grand assemblage of great ships -- both large & small. $29.95
Great American Passenger Ships  The story of American passenger ships over the 20th century -- from the Leviathan to the Lurline, Santa Rosa & America to the brilliant United States. Interesting text accompanied by lots of black & white photos as well as color. $29.95.  Great Liners Story
A fascinating "little book" about the great liners, those floating palaces, of the 20th century -- from the grand German four-stackers to the age of the Oasis of the Seas. Mostly color in this hardcover book. $15.00.
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.....
I Was Born in Hoboken: Memories of the 1950s & '60s (Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, NJ, due fall 2011)
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)
The Cunard Yanks (co-authored with Ian Wright; pending but due 2012)
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