PENNSYLVANIA: 1929 - Deluxe full ship deck plan w/ interiors & cutawaysPanama Pacific Line: A deluxe deck plan brochure from 1935 for the last of Panama Pacific's three turbo electric liners, the PENNSYLVANIA. The brochure opens to an arm stretching 45" and then flips up to a width of 17. 5". A big portrait of the PENNSYLVANIA fills the top half while the lower section shows deck plans and interiors over eight pages. Of special note are the ten colorful cabin cutaways that even show upholstery patterns and furniture

Holland America Line: An interiors brochure and a separate deck plan for the PRINSES MARGRIET

The best Italian designers of the day including Gustavo Pulitzer Finali and Nino Zoncada created a subtle decor that paid homage to the ship's famous namesake

Since the EMPRESS OF BRITAIN and the EMPRESS OF ENGLAND were close sisters

the Australian government dropped their ship subsidies and placed their bets on airlines

Black and white photos show the Dining Room

The REINA DEL MAR was now one-class

and Game Room

By 1937 all the American Mail Line passenger fleet was laid up at Seattle

and filled with water

Promenade Deck where 8 cabins were sandwiched in by the bow-facing Lounge and the stern-facing Bar & Smoking Room (and Swimming Pool)

a 1932 travelogue reprint from "The Western Morning News"

The company switched them over to the British Elders & Fyffes in 1970 and by the mid-1970s all were scrapped