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- Emerald
Seas
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- General
W.P.Richardson - La Guardia - President Roosevelt - Atlantis
- Emerald Seas
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- A strange
looking ship at all stages of her career, the Atlantis was originally built
as the wartime troopship General W.P.Richardson. She was
rebuilt after the war as the American Export Lines' La Guardia, for
services from the US to the Mediterranean. She was not a success,
being very expensive to operate, and after further trooping to
Korea, and a period as Leilani for the Hawaiian Steamship Company,
she was sold to American President Lines as the President Roosevelt.
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- In 1970 she
was bought by Chandris
Lines
who cut her down to two decks above the waterline before completely
rebuilding the upper hull and superstructure. She began cruising
out of New York as Atlantis, but was again found to be too expensive
to operate, and was sold to Eastern Steamship Lines as Emerald Seas in 1972, with their
Ariadne moving to Chandris Lines in exchange, to become
their Bon
Vivant.
Eastern
Steamship Lines,
became Eastern
Cruise Lines,
then Admiral
Cruise Line,
both times with changes in funnel colours. Admiral Cruise
Line
were acquired by Royal
Caribbean,
who disbanded the company and disposed of the older ships, including
the Emerald
Seas,
in 1992.
She has since operated as a hotel ship in various ports since,
including a short spell in Lisbon for their Expo'98 as the Ocean
Explorer I.
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- Emerald
Seas
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Company
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Roosevelt - American President Lines
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- Leilani
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Steamship Company)
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- The official
Hawaiian Steamship Company postcard below of Leilani was
supplied by Captain John Cox, who writes:- "I served
as third officer in the early 1960s, and ten years later as her
master when she was the Emerald Seas. I last saw the old girl
in Athens three years ago when she was Ocean Explorer 1. When
I went aboard I met with with Chief Engineer, who was second
engineer when I sailed in her in the early 1970s, and the ship
looked much the same as when I was in her almost thirty years
before."
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- Official
Hawaiian Steamship Company postcard of Leilani.
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- President Roosevelt
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President Lines)
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- American
President Lines' official card of President Roosevelt.
"The SS President Roosevelt - the Pacific's newest luxury
liner - joins the Presidents Wilson, Cleveland
and Hoover in providing the most frequent sailings between
California, Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Ship
and Travel with the Presidents"
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- American
President Lines' official card of President Roosevelt.
"Ship and Travel in the Presidential Manner"
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- Atlantis
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Lines)
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- An
official Chandris America Lines card of Atlantis, printed
in England.
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- The
same painting of Atlantis, issued later and printed in
the USA.
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- A
modern CT Publishing card, issued in 1994 (serial no.056).
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photograph is by Albert O.Wilhelmi II, off Bermuda in 1972.
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- Emerald Seas
- (Eastern
Steamship Lines)
- (Admiral
Cruises)
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- Eastern
Steamship Lines' official card of Emerald Seas. (serial
no.P4092)
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- Eastern
Steamship Lines' official card of Emerald Seas. (serial
no.142974)
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- Eastern
Cruise Lines' official card of Emerald Seas.
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- Eastern
Cruise Lines' official card of Emerald Seas. (serial no.P10675)
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- Eastern
Cruise Lines' official card of Emerald Seas.
- Printed
in Spain. "No other 3-and 4-night Bahamas cruise gives you
so much".
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- Admiral
Cruises' official card of Emerald Seas.
- "No
other 3-and 4-night Bahamas cruise gives you so much".
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- Chantry Classics modern card CC/S179 of Emerald Seas.
- Photo
by W.H.Moojen at Nassau.
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- Luis
Miguel Correia card of Ocean Explorer I as hotel ship
for Expo'98 in Lisbon.
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