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Eastern Steamship Line (1965)
The Eastern Steamship Line (later Eastern Cruise Line), was a cruise line operating second hand ships on short Bahamas and Caribbean cruises from the 1960s to the late 1980s. The name was a revival from the famed original Eastern Steamship Lines that sailed the eastern seaboard in the early to mid twentieth century. History In 1954 Frank L. Fraser purchased the two final ships of the original Eastern Steamship Lines, ''Yarmouth(Queen of Nassau,'' and later renamed ''Yarmouth Castle)'' and ''SS Yarmouth Castle, Evangeline'' both for what's then known as the Eastern Shipping Corporation. In 1958 the ''Yarmouth'' sailed to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, for one last summer season, going on government subsidies. They would be joined by the SS ''Bahamas Star'' in 1959, and SS ''Ariadne'' in November 1960. In May 1961, owner Frank L. Fraser had passed full control of the company to William R. Lovett(of Winn-Dixie supermarkets), with the name being changed to Eastern Stea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau, Bahamas, Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the Lucayan people, Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-Taino language, speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
