PRINCESS ITALIA: 1967 - Pioneer ship for Princess Cruises, 1968 brochurePrincess Cruise Line: A twelve page brochure for the PRINCESS ITALIA's 1968 cruise season. The ship had been built on spec in Italy but the owners went bankrupt. New owners, "Crociere d'Oltremare", finished her off in 1967. The company chartered the ship to Costa who turned around and sub chartered her to the fledgling Princess Cruises. You can see that the red and yellow Crociere d'Oltremare livery is still on the funnel. It wasn't until a year later

There are portraits of the STRATHAIRD and STRATHNAVER

San Remo Dining Room

There are two photos - a lounge scene and the indoor swimming pool - that probably were lifted from the ship's Canadian Pacific days

ANNA SALEN had spent several months ferrying visitors to the 1952 Helsinki Olympics

sailed just over a decade before destruction when Germany invaded Holland in May 1940

Two photos are unidentified

Interesting to note that each is postmarked from Panama rather than their New York departure day

In 1931 she was laid up with other old and out-of-work ex-German liners

a long ago printed plopped an Italia flag onto the bow of the SATURNIA drawing

American President Lines:  From the mid-1950s a big (27" by 32") deck plan/brochure with color interior photos for the PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and PRESIDENT WILSON

while the Swimming Pool and large Nursery must have catered to First

Photos from the newly renovated EMPRESS OF FRANCE show the Tourist Class Lounge