How about posting a note sharing your "professional" background and how you got interesting in ships?

My late husband was a Chartered Accountant. He came from a Naval background & spent 2 years in the Canadian Naval Reserve during his University days. He was the one who wanted to go on a cruise for our 25th anniversary - I wanted the mink coat and I got both .

How I got interested in ships, lets see if I can remember myself?!

Unlike most others my interest in liners and ships was not triggered by the Titanic. When I was studying graphic design I had a specific art history class where we discussed the subject of 30’s advertisement posters. I developed an interest in those posters and in ocean liners since ship travelling was an important way to get around back then.

Ships are not my only passion I also like photography, Science Fiction and model ship building (which you all have seen some of during the years) A couple of years ago the QE2 came to Holland and I went to see and more importantly photograph her. It was the first time I photographed a ship and certainly not the last time. A selection of the ships I photographed can be seen on my Internet site:Cruising the 21st Century

When I needed some profile drawings of the old ocean liners to make a point with a presentation, I started to make some side elevation drawings, I developed my own style and technique in making those drawing. a while ago a made the ocean liner drawing which you can see (and buy) by clicking on the link in the left menu bar.

I also started collecting ship related stuff like books, brochures postcards knickknacks etc, not fanatically but If something crosses my path I will take it along.

And of course I like to annoy and bore you all on Cruise Talk!!!

My interest fore ships began at an early stage in my life. Every where you go you find in Rotterdam links with the port, ships and the sea. My father took me always to the water site and tour the harbors a/b Spido.

He spark also the intrest in Holland America Line. Told me always storys about there ships. Well he never work fore theme my father was a constructer and build nomoures buildings in Rotterdam. My addiction fore the HAL take a flight after reading Titanic written by J.P. de Groot. In that book there is a section dadicated to the Statendam 2 / Justitia, and the link between this vessel and Titanic (White Star Line, Holland America and Harland and Wolff) This addiction have never leave me and i like it very much.

i collect books and cards, photo´s about the line. And have a homepage dedicated to the HAL
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Have never sail a/b a HAL vessel, buth last year attended the daddication ceremony off the Oosterdam. Spent 2 wonderfull days a/b Oosterdam and flagship Rotterdam. My first and only cruise was a/b Costa Romantica to the Baltic in july /august off 2000.

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Originally posted by sanfran:
I'm new on here. I'm 44 years old and live in San Francisco. Originally I'm from New York, but I've spent the last 20 years here and also living in London, Tokyo and Seattle. I work for a staffing service where we mostly place people in jobs at law firms. I've been looking at this site for a few months now having stumbled across it while doing various QE2 searches on the internet. I'll be on the December crossing of QE2 and of course I'm very excited about it. I've been a liner enthusiast since being a teenager. The only other ship I"ve been on is the MS Victoria in its late Incres Line days.

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Alright, alright ... I just turned, gulp, 40 in April and have been in the cruise business for about 14 years now. I have been a musician since the age of seven and I sometimes moonlight as a studio musician. On weekends, I get my yaya's out by playing loud rock and roll in seedy bars. I also do construction work. I've been a butcher, a baker, well, you know the rest.

I'm fanatical about collecting ocean liner memorabilia and would, someday, like to get into writing books on the subject. I've already written several articles on the subject and have helped out a few authors with various ocean liner-related projects.

I'd seen "A Night To Remember" as a kid and was fascinated. Years later, I walked into a book shop and saw a copy of Frank Braynard & Bill Miller's "Fifty Famous Liners" and, because there was a chapter in it about Titanic, I bought it. I read about all these other wonderful liners whose stories were far more fascinating and well, the rest is history.

Should anyone be interested in my music, I currently have two cd's available on line. Here are the links:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/willoughby2
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/willoughby

Russ (who actually lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and has never been to Montana).

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The shipping industry is very Competitive with the sizes of their ships, for example, QM2 takes over the biggest ship in the World so the Ultra Voyager comes along soon . I have not seen any pictures or designs for the Ultra Voyager, I wonder if it is going to be similar to the Voyager of the Seas even though it is 15% larger.

I am a retired professional singer/entertainer/actress,having been in Show Biz for over 40 years,maybe even more.Originally from England,I emigrated to Canada in 1965 along with my 5-year-old twins and my first husband.Divorced in 1980,I then married my second husband who sadly passed away in 1992.

I started cruising in 1994 as part of the grieving process.I had such a great time,I decided to cruise more often.Since then I have 19 cruises under my belt,all but one with HAL.

I always wanted to be a sailor when I was growing up.Probably due to my grandfather.He was a steward on the boats between Holyhead,Wales and Dublin,Ireland when he was first married to my grandmother.I used to sit and watch him,in his later years,of course,whittling tall ships in front of the fireplace,which he then would place in gorgeous glass cases.He gave them to various family members.Afraid mine is still in England as it was too fragile to pack when I emigrated (

Anyway,that's my story...if I couldn't be a sailor then I guess a cruiser is the next best thing!!