Preserving cruise-ship history - Letters - Letter to the Editor

Cruise Travel, May-June, 2003 by Tony Schrick

I have subscribed to Cruise Travel for 17 continuous years. Your magazine has been of great value to me in selecting vacation destinations, cruise lines, and ships. I enjoy and am educated by the many fine writers with articles like Theodore W. Scull's "Year-end Review" and those on ship history like Allan E. Jordan's "Last Legendary Liners" (Cruise Travel, February 2003). I like to keep up on where "my" ships are--sold, renamed, etc. My first cruise, in '87, was on Commodore's Caribe I, now the Regal Empress, and still a classic. Others include Princess's Ocean, Crown, Sea, Sky, and (then-Sitmar's) Dawn.

Please consider for future articles some of the major ship-building facilities and/or the other end, break-up salvage locations. We have some war-ships as museums/monuments. Do you think one day we will have an East Coast cruise ship museum/monument? I recognize, of course, the Queen Mary on the West Coast. I have the United States in mind for such an enterprise.

Tony Schrick, Athens, TX

That's been one of the many suggestions floated for the United States, but the legendary liner continues to forlornly rust away in Philadelphia.