I Am A Passenger Reel 1. (1960-1969)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2014
- A rolling caption at the front says that the film was made for Orient Line before the merger with P.& O. who are just as good.
Sun bathing passengers lounge on deck as others play deck quoits. WS of SS Orcades under way, CU Funnel and ships name. Passengers on the promenade deck. Drinks served to mass of sunbathers on aft deck. Shots of passengers in swimsuits being served. General views of the ship. Captain on the bridge, wheel turning, the engine room with lots of dials. Bow cutting through the water. Navigation Officers plotting a course. Two navigators on the bridge deck take a sighting with a sextants. Radio officer tuning his radio and operating Morse code. A passenger makes a telephone call. In the kitchen chefs carve up turkeys and steaks are grilled, more food being cooked and prepared. Inside the Pursers office showing typing and accounting. Lady telephonist with old style plug in connections.
Interior booking office as customer is shown the sort of cabin be can book from plans and photographs. Ext. Orient Line offices, intr. travel agents office as beaming lady travel agent discusses booking with couple. WS Waterloo station as passengers get the boat train. Train departs station. Orcades at Southampton docks. Deck preparations, luggage craned onboard. Passengers going on board with stewards carrying suitcases. The couple from the booking agent are shown to their cabin by a steward. Variety of shots showing the ship departing Southampton. White cliffs of Dover from ships rail. Steward puts blankets over two ladies in deck chairs. Another ship passes, passengers crowd the decks. Outside the ship's letter bureau a customer buy's stamps. Dinner is served, and children receive their meals. A book is selected in the library, passengers self consciously leaf through books.
On deck some sun kisses beauties sunbathe and children are entertained in their section. The Purser looks at a map of Venice with a lady passenger. Man leaves lift and walks across to Pursers Office. On deck an officer takes a bearing, a steward checks the ventilation.
The Captain greets guests to a cocktail party, party chat and drinking. Passengers talk to staff on deck. Deck games. Cooks preparing anniversary cakes. Intr. ships printers. Various party's take place. Shopping on board. Games in the ships pool.
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Watching this I realise how much we've lost....not just gracious travel but the sense of safety and familiarity of a civilised world. I wish we could have those days back again 🙏
Wonderful to see this. My wife and two very young children travelled on the Orcades from Southampton to Wellington over the Christmas - January period in 1967-68. The route was supposed to take us through the Suez Canal but the 6 Day War in June 1967 put paid to that, and we travelled instead via Capetown and Durban. We have lots of happy memories but the first few days were memorable for all the wrong reasons. We hit rough weather in the Bay of Biscay and some passengers didn't show their faces in the dining room for several days. Our table steward told us that his cabin was under water as the rough seas had burst his porthole overnight! As I recorded in my diary at the end of the voyage 'The food was terrific. Just like a first class hotel with plenty of choice at each meal'. It was a great experience for all of us.
Family migrated to Sydney on the P&O Oriana in 1967. Had my 21st birthday pool party on board and it was a blast.
Amazing all for £10!
If only we could all go back in time 😄
17:42 I suppose that's not you.
What a time to be young!
Wish we could still travel like this. We would arrive at our destination relaxed and happy instead of tired and stressed!
Back then, the travel was the vacation. Now we actually do things at the destination...
Try the QM2
It’s all coming back traveling by ship is coming back ten fold I think airline travel will take a massive back seat for along time to come
@@thefowlyetti2 Have you tried the QMII?
@@MrMenefrego1 Not yet, but its the only Ocean liner left. So fits the bill. I will travel on it within the next couple of years.
So much more gracious than air travel. Those were the days.
Memories ... I served in her sister ship "Oronsay" for a few years and on a few other P&O ships , Im over 70 now and would I do it again "HELL YES"
What do you think of P and O saking all of thier workers and bringing in foreign replacements
@@HUMPTYNUGGET Thats the ferries, I worked on ocean liners, but still it doesnt sound too good. The ships I worked on always had other nationalities working on them even in the 60s
@@stuartlennox66 I’d love to sit and chat with you sailor Stuart 😘 @Humpty, don’t confuse the ferry company and the cruise company . They are *nothing* to do with each other, nothing.
The world used to be civilized, people well dressed and well mannered.
Nah. But cameramen were more selective of the footage they shot!
Yeah I'd assume this was the top class 10%-25% of the western population video tapped here.
@@kahn289 I’d rather not look at grunge, myself!
Your dreaming of a past that never existed for the majority of the population.
I remembered. Having to dress up to take a plane flight.
Thank you indeed for this marvelous look at the past. Those of us who grew up in this time frame appreciate it.
I remember going down to the piers in NYC in the 1960's to say farewell to various relatives sailing on the Giulio Cesare (Italian Line), Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. Magnificent ships, never to be seen again.
You can see the Queen Mary any day of the week. I've made contact with her radio room multiple times via amateur radio🙂
@@vibratingstring Well I mean, seeing them in their glory days. I also remember the United States at the docks in NYC, just so impressive. I was a kid back in the 60's.
I went down to Southampton (UK) pier to wave my Aunts off to NY in 1960.🙂 They were on the Queen Mary and we were allowed on board to say goodbye. I was only 5 years old but I still remember (or at least I think I do) the call for visitors to leave.
All these people had survived a war..! Tends to deliver a whole new perspective and a deep sense of appreciation..
it permeates EVERYTHING..!
Those around you and yourself regained the sense of joy of just ‘being’ alive.. 💃🏽🥳 🥂intoxicating, and so, nothing is too much effort..☺️ 💓
I thank God I'm old enough to remember those times
@No Wallet Of course there was plenty of crime around, and poverty etc, but in general, this is a true reflection of life as I remember it as a child in the 1960's. People were generally polite, considerate and respectful. It all started to go wrong in 1970's.
You are right. We took a wrong turn in the 70s and have been lost ever since. I miss those days so much.
This is an advert. Those times were not like that. Don't forget about the slums and squalor of the 60s. The hippy movement and what it was they were disgusted by. This!
@@daithiocinnsealach3173 the antifa of today are the same as the counter culture commies of the 60s. Only even more extremists every social norm that survived the 60s the anquifa want destroyed for good. Hopefully they are destroyed instead.
@@steamgent4592 shhh be open minded please
I felt a tear swell up.. Just remembering the world at those times.. 'it's people and the whole works... And today's world... You would wish you weren't around today. ''Never get back those fabulous times...
You read my mind 🥲
Yep from the moment the music started 😢 Another time, another country for most of us!
In 1959 I was only 4 when my family migrated to Australia from Scotland on the Orcades.
I still have some memories I remember the smells of the oily rope, the coffee machine in the galley, I can remember the pool event when we crossed the equator. My mother kept a post card from the ship in-fact in the film in the printing room a noticed the same photo on the card she had. I also remember being at the rear of the ship and watching the crew throwing big paper bags full of rubbish onto the ocean and bobbing up and down for miles behind the ship. For many years my mother kept these little aluminium arrows that would have been in cocktail’s.
Funny how some things stick in your mind all these years later.
Thank you for posting this interesting film on the Orcades👍
Sounds like great memories ^^
You certainly have not missed much in Britain it is indeed a right dump, one question I would like to ask you is would you ever come back.
@@davids8449
I went on a short holiday to Britain about 15 years ago.
I think my parents made the right choice migrating to Australia.
Jim671467 very diplomatically put
@@Jim-ok9zi So what is exactly wrong with Scotland???
My dad was a press officer for Cunard late 50s into the 60s, until air travel took over. He loved his job. RIP Dad❤️
He was a lucky man to travel the seas in this age .
13:14 Mike pence is a time traveler
The romance of sea faring liners is unmatched by the huge jets of these days.
@@CelticConservative His wife will kill him for "observing" when she sees this!
Mike Adams that's cool hope your dad enjoyed his time at sea that era in time was when men did a solid days work plus I've always liked cunard's ship's 👍😁
Loved those simple ships, the Sydney, the Roma and the majestic Achille Lauro, all Lauro Flotilla. They had often berthed here in Port Melbourne. As a kid, I used to rush to the pier everytime the Sydney arrived to visit my uncle's brother who was Captain for the last 9 years. Then the lovely ships came no more. I miss them all 😪
I also from the 1950s would catch the train from Dandenong to Station Pier to look at the magnificent P&O and Orient Liners and migrant ships that would berth there dreaming that one day I would get to travel on some of them.
Of course I did for most of my adult life including my honeymoon on the Lloyd Triestino Marconi and topped it off with the mighty QM2 a few years back.The romance of the sea has a very strong pull.
Astor too 😢
I lived in dream for some minutes..thx for this video...
Beautiful. Thanks for this piece of history.
Everybody was so graceful.
@@vichar4923 That's the way that things are supposed to be. Every day.
And so well dressed!
@@missasinenomine Capitalism was different when people had higher standards, and that was probably a relic of the monarchy. Personally I can't really deal with colony behaviour, I'd prefer there to be less quality but more independence e.g the should make all their stuff themselves like a children's playset..
I think its possible that people had a better sense of duty, of right and wrong. We hadn't, at that point, imported the "third world" into our society.
What did we think we were playing at ?
This is the first class, I'm sure you have seen the airline ads of today.
I love this! Thank heavens for Pathe and real films of the time. So sadly much of the 70s-90s is littered with nearly worthless videotape recordings of horrific graphic quality. But here… the past was the future with beautiful HD content! Thank you for posting!
Wonderful. Makes you want to be there.
Although i am British but i wish if i could be in that age .
Arm and a leg to travel
How lovely and relaxed is the atmosphere and fun.
I was blessed to have traveled on both the magnificent RMS Queen Mary and the equally magnificent RMS Queen Elizabeth II with my parents. It was towards the end of the heyday of ocean travel. The attentiveness of the ship's crews still amazes me to this very day, I still marvel at their eagerness to help and overall knowledge! On the QEII, I met a man who actually lived on the ship. (wouldn't that be great!) With my parent's permission, he took me under his wing, gave me a detailed tour, and taught me a great deal about the ship and his life on it. From what I have been told, ship travel is on the rebound. Not just cruises, but trans-Atlantic travel as well. I really do hope that is true.
What an age. A people born of a society that loved it's self. We had this once. We can have it again.
Bitter are we?
No...
A library on a cruise ship. People reading books while relaxing. Children behaving well on their own at their designated dinner area. Is this some alternate universe?
When I was a kid, I ran all over the Prince of Fundy, the Bolero, the Caribe, the Scotia Prince. One time I had to be in a wheelchair because they drew the line at teenagers on crutches, so my cousins would take turns racing my chair down the decks and then we used the elevators--even the off limits ones.
Lol it's a staged documentary
@@Canuck24_7 Took the words from my mouth 😀
@@tedoneilclark4710 🤣
Returning from NZ it was just like that.We kids had a great time. Dances and parties and a library, play room etc and lots of meals and film shows.
Wonderful days , wonderful ships .
Oh ja das stimmt genau eine wunderbare Zeit
Those ships stank
My ship Monarch of the Seas had a library, which I really enjoyed!
I want to go back in time. Looks beautiful. Thank you.
My first cruise was on RMS Carmania (Cunard) pictured behind the Orcades on sailing at Southampton in 1968 when I was 8 I still remember men playing deck quoits in tweed suits.I was on the Orcades when she ran aground temporarily in the Guidecca canal in Venice.
I went from London to New Zealand in 56 on the Orion.Lots of fun.
Oh wow!
Looking at some of these old film reels, I get to thinking where did it all go wrong,No one talks to each other anymore, next door neighbours, no one knows them anymore, peoples faces only communicate with their smartphones, they call this modern life social media, But in reality, its just the opposite.
Congratulations British Pathé by preserving the History. My parentes travelled on board of The "Cabo San Roque" and "Charles Tellier" Ships (1960) and afterwards "Costa Linea C" (1966) with me. But, unfortunately there is no recording. Only old postcards. From Rio Brazil.
How old are you sir ?
@@MohsinKhan-yr1rd 57 years old my friend. Regards.
@@Eduardo-uo7qs wonderful Eduardo sir
We (my family, I was about 6) used ships many times to go to South America in the 50's, on a freight-ship with passenger accommodation, back and fro from Holland. Later we went with the Super Connie. It was fun on the ships.
To Suriname and Colombia.
Ah, the good ol' days when people were generally civil to each other. Sad what we've become.
Well of course they showcase the good things about the era, but there were still major social problems. We’re far better off today, even though we have different and still bad problems now. It’s easy to forget, but progress has actually been made since the past. Don’t worry about it so much!
@@MaxGreen111
I didn't say there are no problems and there is nothing bad back then or now, and I didn't say I was worried. Maybe spend a little more time reading for comprehension instead of just skimming and then verbal-diahrroeaing out whatever blither occurs to you.
@@lisahinton9682 I must say the tone of your reply is more than a little ironic given the subject of your original post.
@@MrSimonmcc
Oh, you can hear written words? Quite the fascinating talent, if so! And if not, then the tone you're assigning my words is coming _from you, and not me, Dear!_
Given that P&O and Orient Lines merged in 1960 and that the SS Orcades was painted that yellow hue until 1964, this film can be dated between 1958/9-1964 at the latest.
I THANKYOU WHOEVER PUT THIS MOVIE ON HERE OF THE ORCADES, I WAS A 4 YO FROM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. I NEVER SEEN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT LIKE THE SHIP AND ALL, IT WAS A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE, WOULD ANYONE HAVE SOME PRIVATE PHOTO'S OF INSIDE THE SHIP? WE WENT TO BUNNERONG HOSTEL IN HILLSDALE, THANKYOU VERY MUCH ALL,
Where abouts in Glasgow?
IF YOU WERE 4 IN THE 60S THEN YOU ARENT OLD ENOUGH TO GET A PASS ON TYPING IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
You don’t have to scream at me:(
@@paul1156 Some people with poor eyesight write in caps because it's easier for them to distinguish the letters. He's not screaming at you.
@@TheBigMclargehuge You do realize that people can have poor eyesight without being old?
Charming, I love the way people are so wooden trying to look like the camera isn't there.
Very interesting film..thanks.
Pathe always drops the fire vids
My heart goes out to those workers. I work and never seen anyone care about their job, this much. Lol 😂.
They will be well rested now as they are all on the other side 😊
What amazing restoration, congratulations for sharing this gorgeous stuff
I went around this ship, while she was berthed in Tilbury, in about 1949, with my Dad and Uncle. Stunning luxury.
So much more civilised & pure in the good ol’ days.
Everything perfect..
Anybody here still alive ?❤️
Aaa the time when people had unions and actually liked what they worked and could make a decent living of it as well:D oh how times have changed
What a fantastic way to travel
Rightly said ..I love this travelling and those beautiful days.
I travelled the Pacific on P&O SS Orcades. I was all of 16 years old and by myself. The opulance, the cleanliness, the pantry and cabin 'boys'. Bobby was 60-70 in the shade. Invited to Captains table for dinner. Because I was 'summonds', I refused. 2nd Engineer asked me out to dinner in Noumea -didn't have the heart to say 'I'm only 16'. I took 5 huge suitcases as had to have much formal wear. The best time of my life.
I believe people would love the option of this travel today.
I love the two tiny twin beds in the couple's cabin LOL
Right 👍 how they supposed to get the nasty on?
Omg. American women of the past were so beautiful, slim, elegant ...
Sorry but I do believe the women are British since the ship is departing from England.
I enjoy this uploading and I like the vocal and assent of the one who spoke. It carries aroma
The Best era with no phones, headphones and more physical activity.
You can run whenever you want. I have exercised the most i ever have recently. Stop using your phone. Get off the Internet. Tada. Amazing.
No one is stopping you from putting your phone down & going fishing or hiking or whatever
Do you exercise regularly
it's Good Old Days that we can smoke anywhere
I love the cord swichbroad brings back memories, I started my career with good old ma bell in 1972 for 34 years don't have career like it anymore, now it's all warehouse jobs
Yes first class was very luxurious, but it was not how the majority of passengers travelled. Now if they'd done it on tourist class it would have much more relevant.
Those of us that did it know. I did it three times; on the Strathmore, the Orsova an the Southern Cross between 1957 and 1966.
Orcades was a one class ship
They didn't show the swingers lounge
Meanwhile, in the real world, life was not like this.
I had a wonderful childhood, but looking back life was very basic. My family were poor, and I doubt very much that travel like this would have interested them even if they could have afforded it.
No car. No central heating, and ice on the inside of the windows most winters No holidays. Luxuries were not the items shown in the shop on the ship, instead, it was opening a tin of peaches at Sunday tea-time to have with cream. This was the reality, not just for my family but for everyone that I knew.
However, I had everything that was important. We never went to bed hungry. The bills were paid, and there was no debt. There were books throughout the house. Education was encouraged. Eventually I had a good career, and I was able to help to improve mum and dad's lives.
So, anyone who thinks how wonderful life was then, take off your rose-tinted glasses. For the majority life was a daily struggle to keep your head above water. I doubt that more than 20-25% of people had money for a life like the one shown.
The same here. Working hard but no fancy holidays, just a week at a B&B in Ramsgate if we were lucky. These docos were made by the company l worked for, Associated British Pathé, where we made in-house films for companies like Heinz, Sunblest, Tate & Lyle, and the govt. They were very well staged and l used to think they were unreal to most peoples everyday lives. When Pathé was sold to EMI it's entire film library was originally archived but thankfully the millions of footage has been digitalised is available to be viewed again.
"For the majority life was a daily struggle to keep your head above water." So the same as today then? At least people looked after each other in those days
I had a very similar life growing up, but I still preferred that world, we used to go camping a lot as it was more economical, and we never eat out, not once, couldn't afford to do so, so we had picnics in the countryside with homemade food, it was a wonderful time, we were poor but we enjoyed the simple things and lived in moment.
Ah - a time when every woman was dressed like HRH Elizabeth II.
Only the rich ones
This is how my parents travelled to OZ, they didn't know each other on the trip (different ships), ended up meeting each other at a sailing club in Hobart, Tasmania!
Can i book trip on this ship now , I'm sold :)
Now! We can’t even get out of our houses cause of the pandemic mate. We gotta wait nobody knows until when 😔
“24 hours a day, we’re in touch with the world” oh you haven’t seen anything yet! Just wait till the internet becomes available to the world haha
Back when travel was civilized, for civilized travellers.
you mean whites only?
God 🦠 traveled all over this journey
Asian folks spend more money when they travel compare to the "others/so called civilize" who travel as backpackers or more like begpackers.
@@guillermoelenes7252 Whiter than the Texaco board of directors.
@@guillermoelenes7252 the only countries that are high in diversity population of race and religious background are the white western countries. The bigotry of racism is amazing from ignorant racist ppl like yourself. Try India on diversity. Try Africa on diversity. Try most countries of the Middle East with diversity. Try Asia with diversity. China kill their minorities in slave camps. The only true multicultural diverse countries are the traditional white countries. What’s your plane of deception?
12:50Good times, thoroughly enjoying that bunch of catiritos. 😄
Passengers arriving in suits and dresses instead of flip flops, shorts and wife beaters. Man...what became of us...
Socialism and liberalism is a disease, lack of will and commitment today, people expect too many handouts from the government, hence becoming lazy and unproductive.
please don’t call sleeveless tops “wife beaters”
You let labor , Blair , Merkel and that fool Biden in. Enoch Powell was prescient !
@@brotha.b they are wife beaters periodn
So sad that not one of these wonderful ships were saved at all!
The Queen Mary is a museum in Long Beach, she no longer sails, but you can still see what it was like back then.
Diversity sure has made the world a better place eh.
Omg every one look so posh and gorgeous..😍
There was even a printing press onboard !!
And a morgue, but that they won't tell you.
And a Post Office
Those days are gone even before I was born in 1970
I love the commentary
Old fashioned good service.
My Grandad went on the Oronsay between Hong Kong and England in 1964
I was alive in that era and looking back from this hi-tech world where all we do is stare at screens and don’t actually deal with PEOPLE I want it back
Just watched him put a raw meat on a griddle and use the same tongs to take off cooked. Made my stomach do a lil flip.. love the pathe videos though :)
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that!
That ship looks a lot different to how it looked in that other documentary... Carry On Cruising.
It was delightful.
Great stuff ! Thank you
Idk why, but old things make me feel sad as if i was with them
Thank you.👍❤️❤️❤️👍
No ugly people pillaging or destroying property here, back when people were cultured, lovers of arts and wholesome civilised.
Sorely missed these days, the which we'll never see again. Thank you for this magnificent upload, thank you for the memories.
That's your govenrment fault for supporting and funding left ideology
@@chriscangdradaniel4846 You made a good point, I assure you, Jabba the Trump has done his best, the left rigged the election (Trump really won by a landslide) & dirty socialists have finally trickle down into good O’l USA 🇺🇸 let’s just say we are sadly looking down @ the last days of the Republic, all those clowns in the upper echelon in the great scheme of things are in China’s pockets, as in the case of corrupted China endorser Joe basement Biden and his putrid cache of hoodlums.
Carry on cruising?
So neat story here, my Great-Grandfather traveled on both Cunard line ships and other ships back and forth from the USA to Germany, he usually just went down to the engine room and waved a hearty "hello!" To the engineers and engine tenders and they would "talk ship" for awhile. I think everyone on a certain ship knew him well too! 😄
FYI - Prior to refit of 1964 when her hull was painted white.
Thanks for that. I enjoyed this.
A different time a wonderful area.
This is hilarious Mr Cholmondley-Warner.
Back then everything was nice and slow but now a days everything is so fast and in rush.
People are alive and well without a smart phone .... strange ....
They’ve just boarded at Southampton and they’ve already changed from staid business attire into floral print short sleeve shirts and shorts as if they’re already in the steaming tropics! But their hair is still lacquered to the max with, guess it was Brylcreem those days.
But they changed into their “business” attire when they disembarked at Sydney or Melbourne, to ensure they were to be treated with the respect they expected from immigration officials!
I’m old enough to remember those days! I was there!
@@Tolpuddle581 had to laugh!
I'm 100% sure people live in that period is more lucky than us now
Narrated by the Duke of Edinburgh apparently
Absolutely not! For one it doesn't sound at all like him and two the royals don't do commercial product endorsements other than the Queen's seal of approval
And of course, starring HRH Elizabeth II, as the holiday travel
advisor. 6:23
We need to go back into the 1960s.
No we don’t!
You’re remembering nostalgia with your rose tinted glasses!
No health and safety, men working with no hard hats or safety boots. But with the right to rape his wife nightly. Woman unable to buy a car without their husband signing the finance agreement. Children or wives beaten and abused but nobody intervened because its ‘family business’
Overcrowded slums just a way of life for too many, London still scarred with bombed out buildings from the war. Remember if you had a heart attack or was in an industrial accident and lost a lot of blood, when the ambulance came it was just transport to the hospital, no paramedics in those days. You’d probably die on your way to hospital.
You can return, I’ll stay happily here in my bright future.
@@JulieWallis1963 and people use to smoke everywhere and anywhere.
@@bengunns9500 yes, good point. Life is so much nicer now.
@@JulieWallis1963 Bright future ???? No way , sadly
@@JulieWallis1963 .... and we were then, the vast majority , MUCH happier
Back when wealth equality was greater and poverty was lower.
Not really. Poverty, true poverty doesn’t exist any more, at least not in western Europe. People in parts of Britain were incredibly poor, unable to buy proper food. Nowadays you have to be truly hopeless with money to be that poor, I mean wasting it all on cigarettes and gambling. Post-war Britain was tough on everyone right through to the 1970s.
"More than 1 in 5 people in the UK (22%) were in poverty in 2021/22 - 14.4 million people. This included: 8.1 million (or around 2 in 10) working-age adults. 4.2 million (or nearly 3 in 10) children."@@sirrathersplendid4825
Oh to be young and rich back then.
9:11 through 9:55 Wow, has that changed!!!
Using a sextant to navigate? Why not GPS? Oh wait...
I wish I could sit down with my travel adviser ...
When the world was a nice place, people had respect for each other and dressed smartly. Where did it all go wrong?
I was waiting for some detective story)
17:22 wow that cake was a piece of art...this video was during the final era of people having any class...
I wonder how much a ticket was for an outside cabin with a porthole for two people all inclusive? All that efficiency and people happy with their jobs, how did it all go to sh*t?
Ten pounds one way if you were emigrating. The Orient Line had three pretty much identical ships built immediately post war. Initially for Mail, trooping and then used for transporting a mix deluxe passengers and ten pound emigrees. Sister ship Oronsay carried future Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (then aged 2) in 1960. My Uncle who was an engineering officer on the third ship Orsova also emigrated with his young family on Oronsay in 1960, but a different voyage.
There’s still cruise ships...
I think air travel drove this industry under- ground for a while
Liberalism.
Tina, my own guess (You ask such a good question) is that the decline in "standards" started with our schools. I think values such as duty and work, became after the mid 60's a kind of "dirty word" ....
Quite impressive.
Thank goodness they clarified that merger at the start. How embarrassed would I have been when I tried to book my Orient cruise!?