Steamboat Bill
FALL 2009 | No. 271
Associate Editor Peter T. Eisele returns with his regular update to the highly popular Guide to Cruise Ships, providing details of new developments in the world’s ever growing cruise liner fleet.
Louis Cruise Lines operates a most interesting fleet of passenger vessels, including two of the very few steam-powered liners still in service. Rick Frendt has the history of the line with a focus on those two veterans.
Fifty years after the loss of the liner Morro Castle, retired naval architect William duBarry Thomas looks back at the safety at sea measures that have been implemented since that dark day.
More than 45 years have passed since the famous Old Bay Line steamer City of Richmond disappeared beneath the waves off the South Carolina coast. Dave Millhouser is one of the few people who have visited the wreck and shares his experiences.