Preserved Memory Project: Index

Stories of Ocean Liner travel from personal experience

QUEEN MARY Trooping 1944
by Sgt. Ken Sullivan, Indiana
SUN VISTA sinking 1999
by Fred Burnett
RMS CARONIA
by Radio Officer, Ken Mugridge
CONSTITUTION, Hurricane 1961
by Alan Zamchick
U.S.S. GEORGE WASHINGTON and U.S.S. GENERAL STURGIS
Two Troopers; by Frederick Madden
OLYMPIA 1966
by Diane Kolyer
QUEEN ANNA MARIA
by Diane Kolyer
AEOLUS, DANUBE, KROONLAND, WW1 Troopships
by J. McSherry
S.S. WASHINGTON
Three memories: Eva Silver, G. Paul Buckley, Gary Rosenthal
PRINCESS MATOIKA, emigration and iceberg 1921
by Rachele Lozzi
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND to Japan in 1957
by Arthur Lederman

Please consider submiting your memory

I invite readers to submit your experience aboard the ocean liners of the past, or compelling contemporary adventures, peronal accounts bring the history of ocean liners travel alive.

Whether as a crew member, passenger, refugee or trooping, we would like to archive your experience of travels aboard ship in your own words on the Maritime Matters -- Preserved Memory Project. If you have images to illustrate your story, we can add those too.

If you have a diary or other written account of personal travel by ship, perhaps from a relative, please considering archiving it here on Maritime Matters. There will come a time when no one with first hand experience of travelling the world on a liner, before the age of the aeroplane, will be around to recall.

Please send me an email with your story, including your name, the name of the ship, dates, and any images (jpgs) you may have. Please remember, details and description make story worth reading. Exactness or accuracy maybe less important than the impression, so don't worry if there are parts of the story that have become vague. See the above examples, thank you - Martin Cox, Publisher, Maritime Matters

Email Martin Cox at info@maritimematters.com. (We have to reserve the right not to publish all stories)