ORIENTAL EMPRESS: 1947 - Ex-APL liner in Oriental drag Sitmar Line (post-WW2) 000 crossings

000 crossings

A four-panel portrait shows the BOISSEVAIN steaming through choppy seas

Big b&w photos show the interiors: Dining Room

Lifeboats were swamped and only thirteen of the ninety children survived

U-C bragged about the spaciousness of their newest vessel:  "You could drive a Rolls Royce with plenty of room each side down most of the deck promenades

ORIENTAL EMPRESS: 1947 - Ex-APL liner in Oriental drag Sitmar Line (post-WW2) 000 crossingsOrient Overseas Line: A fold out brochure promoting the ORIENTAL EMPRESS, the final stop for a once proud ship, American President Lines' PRESIDENT WILSON. When U. S. government subsidies ran out in 1973, APL sold the ship and sister PRESIDENT CLEVELAND to Hong Kong shipping magnate C. Y. Tung and his Orient Overseas Line. Given glitzy Oriental make up and renamed ORIENTAL EMPRESS, the ex WILSON sailed on a 100 day round the world route. Tung was