Steamboat Bill

STEAMBOAT BILL SPRING 2009 | No. 269

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Come along with Stanley Haviland on the Queen Elizabeth 2’s final voyage to Dubai and get an update on her early time in Dubai from none other than her former commander, retired Cunard Commodore Ronald Warwick.

David Hendrickson takes an in-depth look at the Waterman Steamship Corporation’s C2-S-E1 class of cargo-passenger vessels that were called "the most economical and efficient vessels" of their type in the early 1940s.

William duBarry Thomas recounts a 1931 voyage on the Lykes Line freighter Genevieve Lykes that those who were aboard almost certainly wanted to forget.

In Heroes on the Hudson Peter T. Eisele has the story of the New York harbor ferries that came to the rescue of a downed airliner in the Hudson River in January 2009.

Captain Tom Colligan is one of those who knows the classic 1920s yacht Miss Ann the best and has her story as she embarks on a new career.