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In 1963, Eastern Steamship Line sold the SS Yarmouth to the Chadade Steamship Company, Panama, which formed a new subsidiary line, Yarmouth Cruise Line.  Following the disaster of her sister-ship related to safety issues, the SS Yarmouth, was retired in 1966. References Get Travelling Wikipedia: Eastern Steamship Line (1965) Wikipedia: SS…

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In 1963, Eastern Steamship Line sold the SS Evangeline and SS Yarmouth to the Chadade Steamship Company, Panama, which formed a new subsidiary line, Yarmouth Cruise Line. The SS Evangeline was re-named Yarmouth Castle. Fleet Yarmouth Yarmouth Castle References Get Travelling Wikipedia: Eastern Steamship Line (1965) Wikipedia: SS Yarmouth Castle

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  In the early 1960s, the hotel director of the Grand Bahama Hotel and Country Club, Charles Sammons, requested the construction of two Chinese junks, at a cost of USD$15,000 each, for junkets between Grand Bahama and Sandy Cay. The junks, named Wing Wong and Hi Lee, sailed under Captain…

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  The M/S Grand Bahama was a 160 foot, 225 passenger, luxury liner. The liner was constructed in 1950 by Glommens Mek. Verksted, Norway, and was christened the M/S Romsdal. In 1962 it was purchased by by William Shipping Co., Inc, Monrovia. In 1963 it began sailing between West Palm…

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Details Publisher: Lofthouse Agency Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas Phone 95321 Distributor: Printer: Colorpicture Publishers, Inc., Boston 30, Mass., U.S.A. Process: Plastichrome Photographer: Colour by Ronald Lightbourn Year: 1963 Series: P52300 (Type EB)

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S/S Oceanic was built in 1963 by Cantieri Riuniti dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy for Home Lines. She was delivered to Home Lines in March 1965. She made a short series of transatlantic crossings, following which she entered cruise service from New York to the Bahamas on 24 April 1965, operating…

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Home Lines was an Italian passenger shipping company that operated both ocean liners and cruise ships. The company was founded in 1946, and it ceased operations in 1988 when merged into Holland America Line. By 1955 at the latest Home Lines began making cruises from New York to The Bahamas…

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