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This is a treasure trove of film showing many different ships during the golden age of the great transatlantic liners. Most of them look to be from the French Line (Compagnie Générale Transatlantique or CGT). But there are lots of other famous liners that make their way into the various clips. Some of it looks like it was filmed on various sailing days from the CGT piers. This is solid gold for ocean liner enthusiasts. (b&w silent appx 20 mins)

NEW YORK -- Four luxurious passenger ships, including the Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Elizabeth 2, will abandon Manhattan's Hudson River piers and begin docking in Brooklyn next year. Carnival Corp. will move the berths of the four ships to a huge pier the city is redeveloping in the Red Hook section, city and company officials said. The city hopes the shift will create thousands of jobs, spur retail and tourist-industry development and breathe new life into what was once a bleak warehouse district, and bring 250,000 more passengers to the city each year on top of the...

The QE2 liner was among the targets selected by two South Africans -- captured in Pakistan along with a senior al-Qaida terrorist -- who were plotting attacks on tourist sites in their home country. Raja Munawar Hussain, the chief of police in Gujrat, the eastern Pakistani city where they were arrested, said several maps of South African cities among the items seized after the raid, which also netted Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian with a A£13.7 million bounty on his head for the 1998 twin East Africa embassy bombings. "They were all very well trained terrorists because of the way...

S.S. United States: An idea to bring a famous ocean liner to the waterfront is gathering steam By JOHN M. ROMAN, jroman@delcotimes.com November 24, 2002 To many passers-by, the rusting, weather-beaten 990-foot-long ocean liner docked at Pier 82 in South Philadelphia is just an eyesore ready for the scrap heap. But to maritime buffs and Sean Joyce, a Chester native, and Jack Holefelder, head of the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce, the S.S. United States could be a major draw to a revitalized Chester waterfront. Holefelder cited the successful tourist response to the USS New Jersey battleship in Camden, N.J.,...