100 Years of Cruise Ships in Colour

<p><strong>Acclaimed maritime historian William H. Miller presents a vivid collection of photographs charting a century of cruising the ocean waves from the 1920s to the start of the current cruising boom.</strong> <em>100 Years of Cruise Ships in Colour</em> includes many early, often seasonal, liners, along with the more purposeful generation of ‘floating hotels’ that began in the 1960s.</p><p>There are favourites, such as the pre-Second World War <em>Franconia</em>, <em>Reliance</em>, <em>Nieuw Amsterdam</em> and <em>Normandie</em>; then, in greater numbers, a ‘fleet’ starting from the 1950s and ’60s – ships such as the <em>Caronia</em>, <em>Andes</em>, <em>Queen of Bermuda</em>, <em>Nassau</em>, <em>Italia</em>, <em>Bahama Star</em>, <em>Reina Del Mar</em>, <em>Oceanic</em>, <em>Skyward</em>, <em>Song of Norway</em>, <em>Hamburg</em>, <em>Royal Viking Star</em> and <em>Queen Elizabeth 2</em>. Finally, steaming into the twenty-first century, we see the likes of the <em>Royal Princess</em>, <em>Statendam</em>, <em>Crystal Symphony</em>, <em>Oriana</em>, <em>Queen Mary 2</em>, <em>Allure of the Seas</em> and <em>Viking Star</em>.</p><p>This is a magnificent ‘scrapbook’ of a great and grand generation of ships.</p>