They come for the magnificent floating palaces themselves, the giants of the sea. In this new book, the author showcases the most influential cruise ships of the last three decades beginning with Royal Caribbean’s groundbreaking Sovereign of the Seas. The reader is taken aboard thirty of the most spectacular ships to reveal how their innovative designs changed the landscape of modern cruising.
A truly sumptuous and fascinating book for all those drawn to the world of the modern cruise ship. When she was launched in 1988 she was the largest passenger ship constructed since Cunard’s Queen Mary entered service some 48 years earlier, and her entry into service sparked a fiercely competitive building boom that continues to this day.
By employing original and archival photographs, as well as the author’s intimate knowledge of many of these vessels, deck plans, and that its origins can be traced back to one ship, a unique picture is built up of these great ships and it becomes clear that the true Golden Age of Cruising is not in some distant past but exists right now, cruise programs, launched in 1988.
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A Cruise Ship Primer: History & Operations
Cruise ships, and can be largely self-contained cities of perhaps 8, can be almost a quarter-mile long, the largest moving man-made objects, as tall as a 25-story building, 000 people. This behind-the-scenes look examines the concept, and how, development, what makes them work, and construction of vessels, as well as ship operations.
This book is a great resource for designers, shipbuilders, architects, and the cruise ship passenger.
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes, and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
Entrepreneurial genius and bare-knuckle capitalism mate with cultural kitsch as the cruise lines dodge U. S. Garin chronicles the cruise-ship industry, from its rise in the early sixties, to its explosion in the seventies with the hit show The Love Boat, to the current vicious consolidation wars and brazen tax dodges.
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Cruise Ships: The World’s Most Luxurious Vessels
Each liner is illustrated and described with color illustrations of external and interior views. Details of the design, building and service history of each vessel are provided with vital statistics of the ship and its facilities. This book gives a complete overview of the cream of these ships, today’s queens of the sea.
This is a book of reference for maritime enthusiasts, would-be holiday cruisers and those who have been passengers.
First Class Cargo: A History of Combination Cargo-Passenger Ships
There were dozens of these ships, often carrying 50-300 passengers in very comfortable, sometimes quite luxurious quarters. William miller presents an important record of a little-documented aspect of maritime history. This book is about the unique, largely ignored and forgotten passenger-cargo ships that were not liners but more than ordinary freighters.
The first appeared in the 1930s but their heyday was post-war until the 1960s.
Holland America Liners 1950-2015
Pen sword Maritime. However, competition from the airlines meant that in the early 1970s Holland America ended their transatlantic passenger services; in 1973 the company sold its cargo-shipping division. When the second world war ended, only nine of Holland America Line’s twenty-five ships had survived and the company set about rebuilding.
Miller takes a look at the Holland America Line and its post-war fleet up to 2015. Founded in 1873, the holland america Line provided services carrying passengers and freight between the Netherlands and North America.
