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i just read on seatrader that ISP group has finilized thecharter for Clipper Pearl (to be renamed Clipper Pacific) to the Peace Boat organisation
will this be the end for the Topaz (former Empress of Britain, Queen Anna Maria, Carnivale, Fiesta Marina, Olympic) or will there be another twist in her life???
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But in the decades before mass media and internet, as these same events were happening to the great liners that at that time we due for retirement, I wonder if the same types of conversations occured?
Imagine sitting around a fireplace and sipping a sherry, cognac, brandy, or ale and discussing the demise of Mauretania, Leviathan, Berengaria, Nieuw Amsterdam, Paris, Bremen, Olympic, Rex and the Conte di Savoia, Empress of Britain, Normandie, and many others. I wonder how liner enthusiasts back then 'handled' it? I wonder if it was just an 'accepted' next step in the life and death of a liner?
quote:Originally posted by dmwnc1:Imagine sitting around a fireplace and sipping a sherry, cognac, brandy, or ale and discussing the demise of Mauretania, Leviathan, Berengaria, Nieuw Amsterdam, Paris, Bremen, Olympic, Rex and the Conte di Savoia, Empress of Britain, Normandie, and many others. I wonder how liner enthusiasts back then 'handled' it? I wonder if it was just an 'accepted' next step in the life and death of a liner?
I'm sure there were many traditionalists who bemoaned the passing of these ships, but like everything else in older times, thoughts and discussions were more private and not instantly shared with the whole world as the Internet lets us do now. Some of the old liners were lost in WWII, also, and the news may have been slow to reach a lot of people, unlike today's instant information.
A bit later than that, in the early '70s, I was a teen who was very interested in ships. That was during the Energy Crisis, and so many liners were being taken out of service that it seemed a real tragedy to me. Hardly a week went by without one or two ships going to the scrapyards, usually at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in those years.
And the prospect for passenger shipping was grim, too. Airliners had replaced passenger liners all over the world; everyone was sure that the QE2 was the last of her kind, and the modern cruise industry had yet to get really developed. I still recall that feeling of dismay, that I had missed all the ships by a few years--how times have changed!
There are around a dozen real lookers left on the high seas, and then the ocean will look just like another high street with the inevitable blocks of flats on barges.
Topaz, The Sagas, Maxim Gorky, Oceanic, Ausonia, Marco Polo, the CTC fleet - and not much more!
I know FDR was among MAURETANIA's very distinguished fans who quite publicly mourned her loss.
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