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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 02-03-2010 12:23 PM

Hanseatic, Bremen and France of Barbados in 1971. Full size is here

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Michael534
First Class Passenger
Member # 2953

posted 02-03-2010 12:47 PM

Awesome Picture Thad! Ahh, the good old days. Not a floating apartment building in sight.

Michael

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 02-03-2010 01:24 PM

Very nice indeed. High France feel in this picture. Although 2 of the vessels are German owned.

Greetings Ben.

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NP
First Class Passenger
Member # 8721

posted 02-03-2010 06:24 PM

Indeed !! Three Saint Nazaire built ships!
I always thought that the ex Shalom was a very good mini-France with near identical bridge and verandah deck...

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SSTRAVELER
First Class Passenger
Member # 15170

posted 02-03-2010 07:09 PM

Yes a great picture, and three French builts. What's more sort of a timeline in the industry, a 1930s/1950s liner, a superliner and a dual purpose/cruise ship.

And the finally little bit two of the rest on the bottom of the ocean on the eternal cruise to nowhere .....

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 02-03-2010 07:13 PM

Great image. Hanseatic was a very handsome ship and there was no mistaking her w/the size of those letters on her bow! She looked even better after her re-building for Royal Cruise Line.

I was never a fan of Bremen's exterior. Years ago I did a cut and tape job on a photo copy of her adding a dummy funnel aft (a copy of her forward funnel). She looked really good as a two-stacker.

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Midshipcentury
First Class Passenger
Member # 12190

posted 02-06-2010 01:42 AM

Thank you for sharing this beautiful image of three handsome steamers. I wonder why HANSEATIC and BREMEN at least are not berthed in the harbor, however. Could this possibly be St. Maarten instead of Barbados?

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desirod7
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Member # 1626

posted 02-06-2010 01:07 PM

Peter,

You could be right, I as a young child was in St Maarten, April of 1971 on the Queen Anna Maria and recall seeing these ships.

The Bremen had followed us from St. Thomas

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Originally posted by Midshipcentury:
Thank you for sharing this beautiful image of three handsome steamers. I wonder why HANSEATIC and BREMEN at least are not berthed in the harbor, however. Could this possibly be St. Maarten instead of Barbados?

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