ORIENTAL EMPRESS: 1947 - Ex-APL liner in Oriental drag Sitmar Line (post-WW2) Lifeboats were swamped and only

Lifeboats were swamped and only thirteen of the ninety children survived

Chandris' popular immigrant ship converted from Matson's old LURLINE

Eight decks are shown on this big 30

The ships were built in the late 1920s for Panama Pacific but were thoroughly redone in the late 1930s for MooreMac

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ORIENTAL EMPRESS: 1947 - Ex-APL liner in Oriental drag Sitmar Line (post-WW2) Lifeboats were swamped and onlyOrient 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