PATRIS: 1950 - Large travel agency "Berthing Plan" booklet form 1960sChandris Lines A twenty page "Berthing Plan" booklet from the 1960s for the PATRIS. What a great way to explore a ship! Meant for travel agents, the booklet offers detailed plans of six decks, each matched up with a large PATRIS profile showing deck location. In the back is booking and travel information. Fully open, the pages spread 7. 5" tall and 23" across. The ship initially sailed in 1950 as Union Castle's BLOEMFONTEIN CASTLE. PATRIS joined

The Spanish Line

thanks to one of the largest Air Conditioning systems ever installed in a British Liner

the HOMERIC was laid up

handed over as war reparations in 1919

She was scrapped in 2003

French Line - A deck plan dated 1948 for the combo liner sisters OREGON and WISCONSIN

also due to high fuel costs

The ship sailed for many years as Matson's LURLINE before joining Chandris in 1963

This forty-page brochure

and finally sailing home on the UNITED STATES or AMERICA

pre-maiden voyage brochure for the ATLANTIC issued in June 1981

and anyone who has visited the east coast of South America will find them fascinating