PHILIPPINES: 1952 - Deck plan w/ color interior photos Companhia Colonial de Navegacao corridor by corridor

corridor by corridor

The First Class plan opens to 26" square and shows six decks

and CRISTOBAL

A fortuitously positioned tanker

complete with a bar on one end

PHILIPPINES: 1952 - Deck plan w/ color interior photos Companhia Colonial de Navegacao corridor by corridorItalian Line: A fold out (20" by 24") deck plan for the M S PHILIPPINES, the Manila time warp hotel that was once the sleek AUGUSTUS. In the early 1950s the AUGUSTUS provided design cues for the ANDREA DORIA and other liners. She was sold off in 1976 and ended up as a hotel ship in Manila. And there was sat, decade after decade, sometimes open to the public, and often not. Peter Knego reports that her gorgeous mid century interiors were mostly intact.