The R.M.S. Berengaria was originally built for the Hamburg-Amerika Line as the Imperator . At the end of World War I, she was seized by the ...

Here is the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Line's City of Cleveland by day and by night. The side wheel steamer was destroyed by fire ...

The S.S. Kashima Maru was a Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) trans-Pacific passenger liner. This photo is from around 1920. NYK produced many very...

The USS Oregon was built in San Francisco and launched in 1893. I have delayed this post for a long time because I intended to go down to To...

For a change of pace, this is not a postcard. Instead, it a 9" by 12" menu from the Matson Lines' S.S. Lurline, with the front...

When the S.S. Arapahoe broke her tail shaft off the North Carolina Coast in 1909, the focus of the New York Times news story was not so muc...

The SS Tenyo Maru was a Japanese passenger liner built in 1908. At that time it was the heaviest ship launched in Japan or in the Pacific Oc...