My First Ships: ARCADIA, CANBERRA and HIMALAYA
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And that ship was the Spirit of London. So, I said, "Mom, please uh can we go down there and get a close-up look at that ship?"
So, I chose Himalaya knowing I would never see her again. And that was an interesting day, too. It was very cloudy and it was gloomy. Um, the Himalaya was really long in the teeth. Um, she was very rusty and seemed forlorn and I guess knowing that she was going to be scrapped.
I've been around. I've seen a lot of ships, 300 or so cruises under my belt, and I know and love my stuff when it comes to cruise ships and ocean liners.
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This video is a rather personal recap of how I first began visiting cruise ships and ocean liners in the port of Los Angeles. After being smitten with ships via an eighth grade American History class assignment to write about the LUSITANIA, I accidentally discovered one could actually visit cruise ships during their port calls. Decades before I began video taping, I had a Kodak Pocket Instamatic camera (it was basically all I could afford) to do my documentation with. My first visits by coincidence were all P&O ships, including the 1954-built S.S. ARCADIA, the 1961-built S.S. CANBERRA and the 1949-built S.S. HIMALAYA, which was making her final call at Los Angeles that year. My photos are quite crude but the ships were glorious and I hope you enjoy these first memories that would lead to a lifetime of visiting, documenting and eventually sailing aboard hundreds of ships. #oceanliner #pandocruises #pandolines #ssarcadia #sshimalaya #sscanberra #losangeles #rosaleecalvert #petercoe