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Last Blue Water Liners By William H Miller w dust jacket
Last Blue Water Liners By William H Miller
Hardbound With Dustjacket
Copyright 1986 First US edition
224 Pages
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1: AROUND THE WORLD WITH P&O
Orontes
Strathnaver and Strathaird
Corfu and Carthage
Orion
Strathmore and Stratheden
Canton
Orcades
Himalaya
Chusan
Oronsay
Arcadia and Iberia
Orsova
Oriana
Canberra
Chitral and Cathay
2: UNION-CASTLE TO AFRICA
Arundel Castle, Carnarvon Castle, Winchester
Castle, Athlone Castle, Stirling Castle,
Capetown Castle, Pretoria Castle and
Edinburgh Castle
Pendennis Castle, Windsor Castle and
Transvaal Castle/S. A. Vaal
Bloemfontein Castle
Rhodesia Castle, Kenya Castle and Braemar Castle
3: THE AFRICAN ROUTES
Ellerman Lines
Elder Dempster Lines
British India Line
Holland-Africa Line
Compagnie Maritime Belge
Messageries Maritimes
Companhia Colonial
Companhia Nacional
Lloyd Triestino
4: LATIN AMERICA
Royal Mail Lines91
Blue Star Line95
Argentine-ELMA Lines96
Costa Line99
Italian Line109
French Line116
Chargeurs Reunis/Messageries Maritimes120
Ybarra Line124
Fyffes Line126
Royal Netherlands Steamship Company127
Holland-America Line128
Siosa Lines131
Spanish Line134
5: EAST OF SUEZ
Anchor Line136
Bibby Line138
British India Line141
Lloyd Triestino148
Messageries Maritimes149
Blue Funnel Line152
Royal Interocean Lines154
6: DOWN UNDER, To AUSTRALIA &
NEW ZEALAND
Shaw Savill Line160
New Zealand Shipping Company173
Sitmar Line174
Lloyd Triestino178
Chandris Lines181
Lauro Line184
Messageries Maritimes185
7: FAR EASTERN WATERS
Nippon Yusen Kaisha187
Mitsui-OSK Lines189
Hamburg American Line/North German Lloyd
Compagnie Maritime Belge
Curnow Shipping Company
Safmarine Lines
APPENDIX:
Specifications of the Last Blue Water Liners
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
By the early 1970s, most long distance liners had made their last voyage - to the ship-breakers at Kaohsiung. They were ousted from their long-established passenger and cargo-carrying runs by the advent of containerization and commercial jet travel, their fates finally sealed by soaring fuel prices. The well-known ships of such lines as P&O-Orient, Union-Castle and Messageries Maritimes plied routes across all the world's oceans carrying migrants to Australia, palm oil from Africa and troops to India. Through detailed research, personal experience and extensive interviews, in this book William Miller offers a stimulating, factual and nostalgic account of the postwar era of intercontinental liner traffic.
INTRODUCTION
For my summer travels in 1973 I made something of a sentimental journey - a round-trip crossing of the North Atlantic by liner, a trade then almost in its final twilight. For years and years, I had watched the big Atlantic liners at New York - the 'Queens' and other Cunarders, the record-breaking United States and so many more. However, by the early seventies, they had all but disappeared completely, decisively pushed from their trades and their economic well-being by the aggressive, merciless jet. I sailed eastbound in the stunning France, the last of the grand French liners, but even she was running short on time. Two-thirds full and struggling against insurmountable operating costs, she would - much to our surprise - last little more than another fourteen- months (until September 1974). After a five-day passage, we steamed up the Solent and into Southampton's Ocean Terminal, a rather imposing postwar creation which now, too, has gone. Although Southampton Docks had seen busier days, there were at least a few visible reminders of `other' liners from 'other' trades: P&O's Orsova and Union-Castle's Windsor Castle in the Western Docks, Elder Dempster's Aureol on the outer side of the old Empress Dock and Sitmar's Fairsky laid-up at the inner bulkhead of the Ocean Dock. Homebound, aboard the Italian Line's Raffaello, from Naples to New York, I came across another Italian, the Donizetti, at Genoa; Spain's Satrustegui also lying idle at Barcelona and Companhia Colonial's Imperio at Lisbon. Each of these passenger ships ran 'line voyages', those great port-to-port sailings out to such areas as Australia, South and East Africa, the west coast of South America and the Caribbean. If their lives were not already over, they were nearing their final days.
In earlier years, during my summer afternoon visits to the great steamship company offices of Lower Manhattan, I recall seeing special selections of brochures of evocative foreign firms like Blue Star, Bibby, British India. Lloyd Triestino. Ybarra and long voyages, they travelled to Buenos Aires and Bombay, Mombasa and Melbourne, Singapore and Santos.
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