Various: pre-war - 1933 Alaska Steamship fleet brochure w/ famous old Cunarder Panama Line The quest for a porthole

The quest for a porthole was taken to extremes on cabins 610 and 648

But Farrell Line wanted her and she was renamed AFRICAN ENDEAVOR

instead she burned and sank after only seven months on the job

HOMERIC was the red-headed stepchild of the White Star fleet

The three passenger decks are rendered in that wonderful isometric

Various: pre-war - 1933 Alaska Steamship fleet brochure w/ famous old Cunarder Panama Line The quest for a portholeAlaska Steamship Company: A twenty page fleet brochure with deck plans for Alaska Line's 1933 season. Among the fleet was an old Cunarder that went on to become the longest sailing vessel ever the fly the "monkey with a nut" houseflag. The American companies that sailed to Alaska were notorious for running old and rundown liners, a habit formed during the Gold Rush years of the 1890s. The route from Seattle to Valdez was very hazardous with unmarked