LAFAYETTE: 1915 - Rare First & Second deck plan from 1915French Line A rare deck plan (13" by 26") dated July 1915 showing the LAFAYETTE (II). Four decks are shown in color coded detail covering First and Second classes. On this LAFAYETTE the emphasis was on First with seven public rooms and a wide choice of cabins. Second Class, per custom, was crammed into the stern. For your stateroom pick, just browse purple. They had private baths and several had sitting rooms. In 1928, on the heels of a new ship that

Asian faces predominant in the interior photos and two pages in back are in Japanese

Marked "No

A photo that caught my eye showed San Antonio's Alamo backed by the "Medical Arts Building"

although those were halted by the early 1970s to concentrate on full-time cruising

The contents range from Cocktails and Mixed Drinks for sixty cents to Champagnes where a bottle of Bollinger Extra Quality Brut tops the list at $9

Each section is color coded showing lots of deck space for First and Second classes

nicely illustrated

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

Ladies Lounge

a German U-boat sent her to the bottom

opening to a large size (18" by 24")

in 1968 she became Sitmar's popular cruise ship FAIRWIND