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Remembering Forty Years Ago From the New York Times
Incoming Passenger and Mail Ships - Monday, January 2 to Friday, January 6, 1967
Edited by Theodore W. Scull
The actual New York Times arrivals schedule.
In January 1967, now four decades ago, the week following the New Year saw no less than 21 passenger liners arriving in the Port of New York. While most were returning from Christmas and New Year’s West Indies cruises, there were a few exceptions.
Below are left Prinses Margriet at Pier 40, Kungsholm center and on the right Guadalupe at Jersey City.
Holland America Line’s Prinses Margriet, a passenger-cum-cargo ship, was arriving transatlantic from Rotterdam with 78 passengers; Swedish American Line’s Kungsholm transatlantic from Goeteborg (243 passengers); Spanish Lines’ Guadalupe (no passengers listed) was coming in from Vera Cruz, Mexico following a transatlantic crossing from Spain; Grace Line’s Santa Paula (245 passengers) from St. Thomas and South American ports and Santa Mercedes (80 passengers), a passenger-cum-cargo ship, from Cristobal, Panama and the West Coast of South America.
Below left Santa Paula and on the right Santa Mercedes.
On January 2, the Queen Elizabeth, then the largest liner in the world, was coming home with 1,476, also the largest count but still below her capacity and the United States, the fastest liner, with 1,075, also well below her capacity.
Queen Elizabeth
United States
Arriving January 3 was Greek Line’s Queen Anna Mariawhich had started out as Canadian Pacific’s Empress of Britain in 1956, then handed over to the Greek Line in 1964, running mate to the Empress of Canada (1960), seen arriving the same day.
Queen Anna Maria
Empress of Canada
Also arriving January 3, North German Lloyd’s Europa was originally Swedish American Lines’ 1953 Kungsholm, replaced in 1966 by the new Kungsholm seen arriving the next day with running mate Gripsholm.
Europa
Gripsholm
The ships then docked all along the West Side from Canal Street (Zim Israel); Pier 40 (Holland America Line) at the Foot of West Houston Street up to Pier 97 (Swedish American Line) at the foot of West 57th Street. The Spanish Line’s Guadalupe docked in Jersey City and the Santa Mercedes at Port Newark, the now burgeoning container port, while the Santa Paula, with a high passenger capacity, remained at Pier 57, West 15th Street, and soon to move to Pier 40. The majority of the liners used piers between West 44th and West 57th Streets (Piers 84-97).
Below on the left Franconia and on the right Constitution
Shalom
Victoria
Bergensfjord
Atlantic
Homeric
Rotterdam
Leonardo da Vinci
Nieuw Amsterdam at Pier 40.
As a comparison, between January 2nd and 8th 2007, the Port of New York will host Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Spirit and Norwegian Dawn and Holland America Line’s Noordam, the three coming in from Christmas-New Year’s cruises and the Queen Elizabeth 2, arriving transatlantic from Southampton on the first leg of her annual World Cruise. The first three will dock on Manhattan’s West Side Cruise Terminal and the QE2 will berth at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook for the first time ever.