1970s Cruise Ships

First Panama Canal cruises company pioneered regularly scheduled Canal cruises 1968.

1970s cruise ships. The passenger deck on the German ship Augusta-Victoria in. Many of her passengers were heading to Australia with a sense of adventure - hoping to begin a new way of life. The 1970s and 1980s were a period of moderate growth increasing from half a million passengers in 1970 to 14 million passengers in 1980 and 38 million passengers in.

Cruises historian Rob Henderson From his childhood as the son of a ship engineer and his very first cruise as a child admitting he was hooked to a long life spent preserving the history of PO Cruises long relationship with Australia. The ship was popular with passengers despite having the dishonour of once running aground in the Suez Canal and colliding with the collier Rickie Miller on Sydney Harbour in 1971. Antique illustration of ship.

In the early 1970s the cruise business began to reinvent itself in the. But you can indulge yourself with eight meals and snacks a day including two late-night buffets and round-the-clock stateroom service. It measured 188m in length 24m in width weighted 18000t and could host 1100 people.

Cruise ships have more uses than just being a mode of overseas transport. 48 rows List of cruise ships. 1970 Work begins on the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System GMDSS.

Built between 1939 and. CROWDS of relatives and friends farewelled the streamer-decked Orcades out of Sydney Harbor bound for 15 days in the Pacific. First transatlantic sailing 13-day Nassau-Genoa Princess Italia 1969.

Boise Cascade purchases Princess. Request a Quote Now. It is speculated that shows such in the 1970s classic The Love Boat contributed to the idea of luxury cruise ship travel and that ideas found in this show contributed to a growing trend of cruise ship travel as a luxury vacation rather than a means to travel as a necessity.