ORIENTAL EMPRESS: 1947 - Ex-APL liner in Oriental dragOrient Overseas Line: A fold out brochure promoting the ORIENTAL EMPRESS, the final stop for a once proud ship, American President Lines' PRESIDENT WILSON. When U. S. government subsidies ran out in 1973, APL sold the ship and sister PRESIDENT CLEVELAND to Hong Kong shipping magnate C. Y. Tung and his Orient Overseas Line. Given glitzy Oriental make up and renamed ORIENTAL EMPRESS, the ex WILSON sailed on a 100 day round the world route. Tung was

ORSOVA's days were numbered by 1970

and two different suites

North German Lloyd: A 27" by 36" tissue deck plan from 1960 showing both First and Tourist classes aboard the BERLIN

This lovely yacht-like ship hailed from the mid-1927 and sailed until 1969 before retiring

There is the great photo of the FAIRWIND on the cover

My family has a connection to this ship

eventually seized the liner

But entrees of Lobster a' la Newburg

The chairman's wife used to decorate the ships

the Morgan Line's lyrical slogan that speaks of sunsets

Soon they tired of money loosing combo liners and passed them onto Delta Line

who turned a high school fascination with ocean liners in the 1930s to a career working for Moran Towing in the 1960s