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Topic: What your favorite ship

Cunard Fan
First Class Passenger
Member # 7530

posted 09-27-2006 11:58 PM

I know this subject has probably been talked about a hundred times already, but what ship is your favorite and why? For me it would be the Queen Mary because of her character, her history and her looks inside and out.

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6263866
First Class Passenger
Member # 5115

posted 09-28-2006 01:09 AM

Favorite ocean liner or cruise ship?
Im guessing ocean line based on where this thread is, so I would have to say Normandie, the looks, the speed, the legend, the tragedy..

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Glencoe
First Class Passenger
Member # 1181

posted 09-28-2006 06:24 AM

For me the 1932 version of Canadian Pacifics Empress Of Britain, largest liner they ever owned, and I lliked the looks of it inside and out.

[ 09-28-2006: Message edited by: Glencoe ]

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Patsy
First Class Passenger
Member # 5611

posted 09-28-2006 08:18 AM

Canberra.

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 09-28-2006 08:28 AM

I have more favorit ships.
But this is my favorit all time ship. Holland Amerika Lijn tss. Statendam 3 of 1929. The last of the edwardian liners and the most perfect ship of this time period.

Greetings Ben.

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DAMBROSI
First Class Passenger
Member # 100

posted 09-28-2006 09:54 AM

To add to the list, SS FRANCE/NORWAY

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greybeard
First Class Passenger
Member # 5284

posted 09-28-2006 12:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Cunard Fan:
I know this subject has probably been talked about a hundred times already, but what ship is your favorite . . .?

One that floats

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Cunard Fan
First Class Passenger
Member # 7530

posted 09-28-2006 01:39 PM

quote:
One that floats

It can be any ship in history

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Onno
First Class Passenger
Member # 3071

posted 09-28-2006 02:09 PM

No offense meant but why is it that many new members start with this question?

Onno

PS: welcome onboard

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J.S.S.Normandie
First Class Passenger
Member # 6253

posted 09-28-2006 02:20 PM

As is probably obvious from my screen name, the French Line's S.S. Normandie. She was the absolute pinnacle of art deco splendor inside and out.

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Cunard Fan
First Class Passenger
Member # 7530

posted 09-28-2006 02:54 PM

quote:
No offense meant but why is it that many new members start with this question?

No offense taken

quote:
PS: welcome onboard

Thanks

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WEBBER
First Class Passenger
Member # 7172

posted 09-28-2006 02:55 PM

Always QUEEN MARY & ANDES

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Liner Enthusiast
First Class Passenger
Member # 6336

posted 09-28-2006 03:56 PM

Of course as you can tell by my screen I am into the classic tranatlantic liners. Especially the greyhounds from the early 1930's - to the era's end at the close of the 1960's
My #1 Favorite is Normandie.
Folowed closeley by the Cunard sisters Mary and Elizabeth.
But I also need to throw Bremen, Europa, Rex, Italia, Nieuw Amsterdam, United States, and France into the favorites mix some where as well.

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steeplechase
First Class Passenger
Member # 4056

posted 09-28-2006 04:24 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Onno:
[QB]No offense meant but why is it that many new members start with this question?

Onno

I think that my first question was is there some predisposition to being gay and liking Ocean Liners?

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Onno
First Class Passenger
Member # 3071

posted 09-28-2006 04:30 PM

A profound question, I think I have to look that one up!

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steeplechase
First Class Passenger
Member # 4056

posted 09-28-2006 04:41 PM

Kind of like Tap Dancing and having a great haircut goes with the territory well at least the Guy's I know.

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