LA NORMANDIE: 1883 - First Class pax list from 1888 w/ lovely graphicsFrench Line From way back in 1888, a four page passenger list for First Class aboard LA NORMANDIE, French Line's first liner built to compete with the best on the transatlantic route. The handsome cover lithograph shows the shining beacon of the Statue of Liberty with Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge in the distance. The printed list covers two pages with a handwritten, glued on sheet showing additions. A tally at bottom lists 95 passengers in First

P&O Lines: A set of First and Tourist class deck plans from 1968-1970 for the ORONSAY

I could be happy dining in Tourist Class aboard the ROMA

Contrast her glowing introduction to her pathetic ending - in 2000

you'd never know the gay NASSAU was once P&O's staid MONGOLIA of 1923

she went to the breakers in 2012

and the special Magnolia Suite

The Germans raised her and she served their cause until 1944 when she was scuttled again

Tourist Class images include Lounge

Tropez Lounge (Tourist)

and several other general views

Morgan Line gladly sold DIXIE to the Navy right after Pearl Harbor

From the mid-1950s until the mid-1960s the OSLOFJORD provided a suitable companion to her similarly designed younger sister BERGENSFJORD