In Memories of the Seas I will show some passengerships of our modern cruise age that are now out of service. Some of these are already part of our memory, because they are scrapped. Others are still around, but used or hopefully to be used as museumships in some way or another like Queen Elizabeth 2 and Rotterdam. Although the ships of this last category do have a very different purpose today as they did when they were still sailing, it is a good way to keep their memory alive and to preserve them for future generations.

It is not that long ago that it was possible to get to America by ship from almost every big harbourcity in Europe. Although it is now almost impossible to think of a world without passenger airplanes, this way of transport is only popular and affordable from the middle of the 1960's onwards. All ships feutured on these pages are the last ones to be built for these services, or already out of date cruiseliners that still followed the designfeautures of the old liners.

Also, I added a page dedicated to Ellis Island. This is not a recent memory of the seas of course, the island was closed in 1954. But it is an important memory about shipping history and it tells the tale about a time when ships were built for another purpose then cruising.