Motor ship WILLEM RUYS

Another nostalgic advertisement published in "The Book of the Ship" with a famous post ar Dutch passenger liner, the WILLEM RUYS of 1947, built for the Indonesia colonial service and sold in 1963 to Italy.
She was then rebuilt in Palermo as the ACHILLE LAURO...
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Port Everglades about 1960

An old photograph from the Luís Miguel Correia collection dated about 1960 depicting two liners and a cruise ship in Port Everglades, Florida.

From left to right, the imposing Dutch mail liner WILLEM RUYS, the beautiful OCEAN MONARCH and the magnificent SANTA MARIA of Companhia Colonial of Lisbon. Even the cargo ships are interesting - a T2 tanker and a white Swedish cargo liner of the Brostroms Group.

Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia