Pix of her in her prime of life.. Not luxurious I think but here are a lot of pictures...

http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/moncsp.htm

Links of her more recently..although from what I can gather she is no longer in this spot, I think she was moved to Buffalo, NY. Her anchors were buried 15 feet deep in silt.

http://www.ueny.org/Aquarama.htm

Picture courtesy of Pickle Puss and Muffin Man LOL!. No clammering Please, I'm just the messenger

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This is my idea of the perfect ship interior. Clean minimal yet tasteful design with full connection to the sea. The sea is the dominant element, and the decor is subordinate.

Hate the boxboat design where the sea is hidden and the focus is on shopping

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Make that "full connection to the Lake" (Erie, that is!)

The connection with sea (or in this case lake Erie) is superb
Interesting to see there is no use of teak decks.

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Interesting to see there is no use of teak decks.

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Very few American vessels used teak decks, especially in the '50s--this was apparently considered old-fashioned!

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I don't like here interior it looks very like a fastfood restaurant interior.

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Ben, that is also what I meant with too much “Rock and Roll”

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Arnold's Diner? One expects to see the Fonz appear.

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It's amazing that such ships sailed on a regular schedule on lakes and rivers. It's something I can hardly imagine.

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The Great Lakes are bigger than most people realize, hundreds of miles long; they are like small freshwater seas. All sorts of passenger ships sailed on them throughout the years.

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The Great Lakes are bigger than most people realize, hundreds of miles long; they are like small freshwater seas. All sorts of passenger ships sailed on them throughout the years.

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And also many a cargo ship used these shipping lanes. Hey, the Great Lakes of Michigan gained a lot of notoriety from the song "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" sung by Gordon Lightfoot. Also it's interesting Rich.. I had no idea the teak decks were considered old fashioned back then.

and here

http://continuouswave.com/boats/aquarama/#footnote3

Here they explain the efforts to try and save her. The article is of a positive note. It would be nice if they did save it I guess. Being it's only one of 5 and all, Lord knows what happened to the other 4.

Built originally as a USMC commision C4 type troop ship. Apparantly it's one of 5 built in California, Washinton and Pennsylvania.

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Didn’t Malcolm say that today’s brochures show a fake and perfect world? Well the people in this old Aquarama brochure sure look overly excited, perfect and choreographed.

Onno

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I am a big lighthouse person, and last April, my dad and I (I'm 15) went on a 3-day, 35-lighthouse tour along the entire New York coast of the Great Lakes. The second-to-last day, we were driving around the Buffalo coast, seeing the many lighthouses in the area.

I saw this huge, blue ship and thought it looked cool. We stopped, and I snapped a photo. I had no idea what its name was, what it was, anything.

When I got home, I Googled "Buffalo rusty ship", and found an old newspaper article with a photo of her. I found out that she was the Aquarama.

I have a photo of her somewhere, but I just got a new computer, and I have to find the image on my CDs. When I do, I'll try to post it here.

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Welcome Aboard! You will find this board very interesting and rewarding, with lots of great contributing members.

We have all shared and learned a lot about ships and cruising here; I'm sure that you will soon expand your interests beyond just Cunard!

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Matson Line used a similar funnel/superstructure design for some adverts. of their Lurline in the late 1940s. Of course the Lurline had very conventional funnels but the renderings depicted twin funnels in a style very much like Aquarama's faux funnel/bridge. Still love that name 'Aquarama'-very groovy!!

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I have a number of those Matson Lines adverts. from the 1940s--they were wonderful, fanciful, and filled with Post-War optimism. Here is one of them from National Geographic magazine, October 1944

Rich

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