"YESTERDAY'S LINERS"
Photographs by Paul Klee

The following series of photographs were taken in New York Harbor beginning in the 1960's and into the 1980's.
Several well known passenger liners of that era are included as well as one cargo ship and an unusual maritime visitor.

October 1960 - Soviet liner BALTIKA berthed in the East River near 23rd Street.
She Carried Nikita Khruschev to UN General Assembly session.

November 1967 - "End of an era", CONCORDIA STAR docked at Pier 1 Brooklyn.

December 1965 - SS RAFFAELLO Leaving New York for Italy
with the photographer's mother aboard.

April 1966 - SS MICHELANGELO Sightseers surveying damage to the superstructure,
undergoing temporary repairs, after a mid-ocean rogue wave killed 2 passengers and 1 crew member.

December 1964 - MS OSLOFJORD at her New York berth.

September 1965 - MS OSLOFJORD Bunkering at Pier 40 North River.

July 1964 - SS UNITED STATES docking at U.S. Lines pier.

July 1964 - RMS QUEEN MARY arriving at Pier 92 North River.

December 1965 - RMS QUEEN MARY sailing for Southampton
under a mottled sky as seen from Morton Street pier.

December 1964 - RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH about to sail from New York.

December 1964 - RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH belches smoke and soot as she leaves
Cunard Line pier at dusk, Southampton bound.

July 1964 - SS ROTTERDAM off-loading car and cargo at Pier 40 North River.

September 1965 - SS NIEUW AMSTERDAM taking on fuel,
seen from Morton Street pier.

July 1964 - SS NIEUW AMSTERDAM at dusk, Pier 40 North River.

September 1971 - SS NIEUW AMSTERDAM at Pier 40 North River
Photographed looking down Leroy Street toward the West Side elevated highway and the ship.

June 1966 - Holland America's MAASDAM at Pier 40 North River.

The new Norwegian America liner M.S. VISTAFJORD
at her New York City berth at the end of her maiden voyage, May 1973.

Another view of VISTAFJORD in New York, May 1973.

August 1973 - S.S. CARIBIA,the former Cunarder CARONIA, idle at New York.

June 1973 - S.S. ROTTERDAM at Pier 40 North River, New York.

May 1974 - S.S. ROTTERDAM sailing from Pier 40.

May 1974 - Another view of S.S. ROTTERDAM sailing from Pier 40.

May 1974 - The departing S.S.ROTTERDAM in the North River.

June 1974 - S.S. FRANCE about to pass the Statue of Liberty at twilight.

June 1974 - M.S. SAGAFJORD reversing into the North River.

Winter 1974 - S.S. ROTTERDAM at Pier 40 viewed down Leroy Street.

September 1975 - QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 departing from New York at sunset.

July 1976 - HMY BRITANNIA arriving in New York City for the U.S. Bicentennial.

September 1976 - S.S. STATENDAM sailing from the New York City Passenger Ship Terminal.

September 1980 - S.S. VOLENDAM in the North River, New York City.

June 1988 - Chandris AMERIKANIS in the North River.

SS FRANCE PHOTOGRAPH BY MARYA KLEE 1973

July 1973 - SS FRANCE sails from New York.
Photographed from an upper floor of 1 Battery Park Plaza
in lower Manhattan.

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