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Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Ships & shipping: general interest > General
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established
the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) in 1975 as a cooperative
endeavor with the cruise vessel industry. VSP's goal is to assist
the industry to develop and implement comprehensive sanitation
programs to protect the health of passengers and crew aboard cruise
vessels.
This is the story of the last class-divided passenger ships that
carried travellers from point to point. In the final years of
activity, spanning from the 1940s to the 1960s, they carried
Hollywood stars and even royalty on the Atlantic, businessmen to
South America and Africa, migrants to Australia and New Zealand,
and visitors returning to European homelands. Last of the Blue
Water Liners nods to the Atlantic liners but also revels in the
many other passenger ships that plied trades around the world:
vessels like the Antilles, Oslofjord, Kampala and Changsha.
Complete with rare images and the insight of the prolific maritime
historian William H. Miller, this book is a nostalgic parade of a
bygone age, a generation of ships all but swept away in the 1960s
and 1970s as jet travel changed the world.
This is the story of a father and son team who undertook the
formidable task of building a yacht from scratch. Follow the hunt
for materials, the innovation, adaptation and ingenuity that was
necessary to construct this vessel with limited resources. The
build took nine years of dogged determination and sacrifice,
culminating with the launch of the yatch 'Knot Free' at Gallows
Point in the Menai straights.
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