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PHOTO ESSAYS
HOME LINES’ S.S. OCEANIC MAKES A FINAL CRUISE FROM NEW YORK
Text & Photos by Theodore W. Scull
Home Lines’ 27,645grt Oceanic, completed 20 years earlier in 1965, sailed from New York for 20 years. Built to carry 1,340 passengers and a crew of 560, she was hugely popular on cruises to Bermuda, Nassau and the West Indies. Sold to Premier Cruise Line in 1985, she is making her final West Indies voyage from New York before being positioned year-round in Florida. She will carry the names Starship Oceanic and Big Red Boat I before reverting back to Oceanic. 43 years later, the Oceanic sails for Pullmantur Cruises, a Spanish operator, from Barcelona into the Western Mediterranean. Externally, she looks very much as she did in these three photos, while most of her interiors are no longer original.
Oceanic reversing into the North River.
Aiming south with the aid of a tug.
Fireboat farewell and a setting sun.
Bowling Green at the Foot of Broadway
A NEW PHOTO ESSAY
Text & Photographs by Theodore W. Scull
The U.S. Custom House rotunda is now controlled by the General Services Administration,
a separate entity from the Museum of the American Indian housed in other parts of the building.
Ocean Liner Memorabilia Featured Exhibition:
"Ocean Liner Cutaways"
January 25, 2007 --- December 2008
Schermerhorn Row Galleries
In the era of the great transatlantic ocean liners, before the dawn of the internet, television, or in some cases even radio, ship operators
such as Cunard and the White Star Line advertised their ships with cutaways. In this exhibit, cutaways from the Der Scutt Collection
are on view for the first time, giving visitors a glimpse of the luxury of ocean liners as well as a taste of advertisement in a bygone era.