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lronlacy.bsky.social
minds exhausted from overwork. Sail away together on a great Red Star or White Star liner! Sights to wonder at ... new friends to make! The salty tang of the ocean - the healthful rays of the ocean sun! Every day something new & glamorous! ...’
#cruises #cruiselines #oceanliners
October 14, 2026 at 7:54 AM
lronlacy.bsky.social
#RedStarLine - #WhiteStarLine
October 1930
#illustration #illustrationart #cruises #cruiselines #oceanliners #stressrelief #stress #wellness
‘A sea voyage will do this for your husband. That’s what physicians are recommending as ideal treatment for tired bodies, frayed nerves, ➡️
October 14, 2026 at 7:54 AM
oscaropossum.bsky.social
I mean what’s the worst that could happen? Somalia captures 3 nuclear oceanliners and now has enough fissile material to refine into… one nuclear hand grenade?
October 9, 2026 at 4:22 AM
liamomaraiv.bsky.social
#RMSMauretania of 1906, one of #CunardLine's most successful #OceanLiners, captured the westbound Atlantic speed record from her running mate #RMSLusitania on #ThisDayInHistory in 1909, and held the #BlueRiband in both directions for the next twenty years, an unprecedented feat.
September 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
liamomaraiv.bsky.social
The struggles of Capt. #EdwardJSmith when it came to running massive #OlympicClass #OceanLiners was clear well before the #TitanicDisaster. In 1911 on #ThisDayInHistory, whilst captain of #RMSOlympic, he was involved in a collision with warship #HMSHawke; both took heavy damage.
September 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
tadfitch.bsky.social
How was time kept aboard Titanic and other ships in 1912, and what was the time difference between Titanic and New York on April 15, 1912? Does the recovered chronometer reveal anything regarding this time difference?

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#rmstitanic #titanic #oceanliners #maritimehistory
What Time Was It Aboard Titanic?
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September 19, 2026 at 3:33 PM
tadfitch.bsky.social
Here's a sneak preview of our next episode, which our paying supporters on Patreon are already enjoying. Stay tuned for the premiere, coming this Saturday morning, only on The Steam & Splendor Network!

#rmstitanic #titanic #maritimehistory #oceanliners
September 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM
liamomaraiv.bsky.social
#SSMichelangelo, launched on #ThisDayInHistory in 1962 for the #ItalianLine, was the first of a pair (with #SSRaffaello), the last large #OceanLiners designed without cruising in mind. Their innovative design, much criticized at the time, influenced generations of #CruiseShips.
September 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
liamomaraiv.bsky.social
#SSConteDiSavoia, one of the finest #OceanLiners from the #ItalianLine, was set afire and sunk by #Nazi soldiers on #ThisDayInHistory in 1943 in the chaos around the Italian armistice. More modern in aspect than #SSRex, she was the first major liner with gyroscopic stabilizers.
September 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
ankerherz.bsky.social
Die Königin der Meer ist wieder in der Stadt! 👑🚢 Heute Früh hat die "Queen Mary2" in Hamburg angelegt. Ein legendäres Schiff, das so viele Fans hat. Warum ist das so - was macht die Magie des alten Oceanliners aus? Lest hier im ⚓️❤️ Blog 👉 bit.ly/4cd6JBG
August 27, 2026 at 9:49 AM
tadfitch.bsky.social
New podcast episode alert! Hosts Tad Fitch and J. Kent Layton welcome author and researcher Mark Chirnside back on the podcast to discuss his latest release, Olympic & Titanic: Triumph and Disaster.

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#rmstitanic #rmsolympic #oceanliners
Olympic & Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy - An In-Depth Conversation with Mark Chirnside - The Steam & Splendor Network Podcast
Hosts Tad Fitch and J. Kent Layton welcome author and researcher Mark Chirnside back on the podcast to discuss his latest release, Olympic & Titanic: Triumph and Disaster.In this episode, Mark rev...
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August 21, 2026 at 11:36 AM
zeroultrabimbo.bsky.social
ocean ranger first, might do his el faro video after

that or oceanliners la bourgogne video

all are comfort watches of mine while i wait for new ones 🖤
August 10, 2026 at 6:41 AM
suporma3354.bsky.social
But have you considered: Airplane? (jokes aside, we *need* high speed rail and civilian rail in general over here. All we have is planes and cars now, I think a bit of balance would be nice. Side tangent but ditto for passenger oceanliners, I think it sucks they're mostly all gone.)
July 27, 2026 at 7:07 AM
tadfitch.bsky.social
Join us for this new episode, commemorating the tragic sinking of the SS Andrea Doria, following a collision with the SS Stockholm, 70 years ago tonight.

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#ssandreadoria #andredoria #ssstockholm #maritimehistory #oceanliners
Andrea Doria: Lost in the Mists! (70th Anniversary Commemorative)
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July 26, 2026 at 3:07 AM
jckaelin.bsky.social
#OTD #TDIH #July25, 1956: The #SinkingOfTheSSAndreaDoria begins with the #SSAndreaDoriaMSStockholmCollision when #SSAndreaDoria is struck by the #MSStockholm. #MaritimeAccidentsInvolvingFog #ShipsSunkInCollisions #ShipSinkings #MaritimeDisasters #Disasters #OceanLiners #PassengerLiners #MovieSky
Andrea Doria - Sinking Footage
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July 25, 2026 at 5:14 PM
tadfitch.bsky.social
Hello everyone. As promised, here is Part 2 of Titanic’s Lost Piano: A Forensic Investigation. If you haven't yet watched Part t, be sure to check that out first.

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#rmstitanic #titanic #maritimearcheology #oceanliners #steinway
Titanic’s Lost Piano: A Forensic Investigation | Part Two
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July 19, 2026 at 3:40 PM
casemateipm.bsky.social
"Ocean Liners" examines the realities of ocean liner travel, revealing contrasts between luxurious experiences and harsh immigrant conditions throughout history.

💻️: https://tinyurl.com/yt6sxt42

#oceanliners #oceantravel #oceanlinerhistory
July 17, 2026 at 1:01 PM
lronlacy.bsky.social
#Fortune for #JULY 1931
Cover illustration by Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975 👉ALT)
*Fortune*, July 1931
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #FortuneCover #ErnestHamlinBaker #harbor #oceanliners #tugboats
‘Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975) Known for the 391 “journalistic portraits” he created for Time magazine from 1939 to 1956 and the thirteen Fortune magazine covers that led to his work for Time, Ernest Hamlin Baker was a self-taught painter and illustrator who created a new style of portraiture. He is also known for the propaganda posters he designed during World Wars I and II.’ & image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-1.html
July 6, 2026 at 12:02 PM
razbite.bsky.social
This is my interpretation of RMS Lusitania. #Myart #art #characterart #characterdesign #oceanliners #RmsLusitania
July 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
I don’t know. Have oceanliners spread it out? It’s the concentration of brine that’s dangerous for wildlife so if you dilute it enough there’s not problem anymore.
June 30, 2026 at 9:16 AM
nomdelamer.bsky.social
Inspired by the monologue persona poems in Paul Monette's 1981 book "No Witnesses", this 2025 poem was about Vladimir Yourkevitch, the man who designed the SS Normandie's streamlined hull shape. Too niche a poem, so never tried to publish it.
#poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writing #oceanliners
Title: Yourkevitch poem by Sean Eaton —after Paul Monette Five years after my ship burned, the American Stevens designed a streamlined tail-car for the Milwaukee Road— a dream, for a select few. Exceptional work. The Americans have took the Frenchman’s style and made it their own: Everything aerodynamic. Forgive my fractured English: I once attended the Naval Polytechnic in St. Petersburg, earned a front office in the Romanov Admiralty. A handsome dacha might have been mine. Instead, amid Revolution I escaped from the Crimea to join the dregs of the Ottomans, tea-reading the fate of one empire in another. Mere survival. Two years I stevedored to pay my passage to my countrymen in Paris. Then—Coffee and Jazz, and how mild the climate! And I, always, dreaming of a vessel to carry beautiful women. How wide the night opens, as the fire gutters. But I digress. Cunard rebuffed me, the French C.G.T. skeptical. My ideas were advanced—always I had to belabor my point. Two years I worked from dawn until midnight at the drawing- board, calculations on calculations, triple-checking my work. A clipper’s prow and a bulbous forefoot, slim and sleek as an arrow at play. My model bested two dozen Frenchmen’s! I had won—my ship would become the ark of French culture. The first vessel afloat to best a thousand-foot length, a raft for rich men and madams, a dream for a select few. The Grand Salon: Thirty-foot ceilings, murals of glass and richest embroidery, the history of navigation. The Salle à Manger: Twenty-foot bronze doors dividing a hall of marble from a hall of glass three-hundred-and-five feet in length, with bas-reliefs and ten-foot-tall statues, electric pilasters and pots à feu lighting up the mirrored walls. Cages of exotic (continued in next image) (continued from previous) birds and jungle plants in the Winter Garden. La France’s highest Jeans had filled my vessel with fountains of light in every public space, a music unequaled before or since. My part was hinted at, but I was still grateful. For Penhoët I worked until I sensed a tidal change, then I came to America with my wife and son. I traveled on the vessel I’d helped to give birth to. And immigrant among immigrants, I fit in among you. Forgive my accented English—the smoke, it enshrouds me. How unnecessary seemed worldly concerns! When C.G.T. planned for the Normandie’s running mate, I envisioned a ship so radical it was a half-century too early. War put a stop to that. I designed some ships for the U.S. Navy, but by war’s entente my star had set, and Gibbs usurped me. He alone saw how fire could destroy what it touched. I traded one winter for another. That morning, old city snow crunched underfoot gemlike, prismatic, like powdered mirrors. My breath froze my throat solid. My beautiful ark had been requisitioned by the Navy for war, the conversion done haphazard. Acetylene, kiss kapok. The fire spread rapidly. Workmen swarming the gangways like rats, fleeing their deaths, as winds fanned the flames into a conflagration. My child hove into sight as I dashed to the news, city alert now: curtains of smoke enveloping the beetle-blue sky, the perfect blue to break the world on. Fireboats had caused a hard list in the ship. I tried to board but was blocked by the police. “Let me on!” I cried to the admiral in charge, “I designed her! I’ll open the sea-cocks and flood her belly, and she’ll settle on an even keel!” A bulldog in uniform, flat-faced and jowls, he said: “No. This is a Navy Job.” And still the conflagration, and the water still so slow to douse it, the list always increasing. How the cold burned. The Navy men all demurred to each other, leaving the fire brigade to take command. Their one goal was containment, (continued in next image) (continued from previous) and a riverful of water was pumped through her decks. At midnight, the ship was abandoned, job declared done. Only the mooring lines were keeping her upright. The in- coming tide lifted her up and they snapped—!—like that. Come morning they gave me the news that my child had drowned in her sleep, and I collapsed like a pillar of sea-salt. Aware of their incompetence, the Navy barred all press from the night’s moment of reckoning to stave off publicity. Soon, Hitchcock played on rumors of German subterfuge with a scene in his next film of a saboteur’s knowing glance and smile toward my ark’s burnt body. The Navy men fumed at it, exposed to be fools. What of this did I care? So the war continued. My ship was beheaded, laboriously refloated. An aircraft carrier? No, the hull too charred. Bones brittled. I drafted plots to raise my child from the dead, reaching for some ancestral Russian folk-magic. Fruitless branches grasping heavenward before the axe comes. So the years pass, wholly unnecessary. Better fools like Stevens and Gibbs give birth to the future. So I watch motion pictures. I design other ships, each more peculiar and strange from the last. The war is long ago ended and my child has been scrapped. Sea change and tidal change. How trivial to me seem all worldly concerns, as I grow old and liver-spotted. I tell all I’m to be buried in the proper, Orthodox fashion. But that ruinous fire is still burning inside me, unquenchable no matter what water I drink. The smoke thickens—my heart is now searing, smoke filling my arteries. My lungs ache—Please help me!— I can’t breathe—! Help— (End of poem.) Note: The following quotes are found within Paul Monette’s book “No Witnesses”: “the night opens” - “the fire gutters” - “mere survival” - “the perfect blue to break the world on”
June 28, 2026 at 6:01 PM
werewhalewolf.bsky.social
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Oceanliners - Funky Pants
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June 25, 2026 at 7:04 PM
lronlacy.bsky.social
as their fathers have for sea-going centuries. People talk so much about “a French cuisine” these days, and some of the synthetic sort aren’t bad . . . but the French Line chef is the kind of chef that has made French Cuisine famous.’
#IledeFrance #oceanliners #FrenchCuisine
June 23, 2026 at 1:16 PM
tadfitch.bsky.social
New bonus episode! Titanic's True Size: A 1912 Illustration Brought to Life in 3D!

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#titanic #rmstitanic #maritimehistory #oceanliners
Titanic’s True Size: A 1912 Illustration Brought to Life in 3D
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June 22, 2026 at 5:55 PM