The great white fleet 1985-1991 Photo Gallery by Jason Anderson at pbase.com

The great white fleet 1985-1991

The 1980s saw the first cruise boom as the trend caught on among North Americans and lines giddily calculated that they had tapped only 5% of the potential market. Older passenger ships were renovated or reconstructed and pressed into quick service, and a new fleet of purpose-built cruise ships was born. The almost universal color of these ships gave rise to the moniker, "the Great White Fleet." Please enjoy and thanks for looking. Original size view is highly recommended.

More cruise ship and ocean liner photos:

***October 2010: I'm finally adding new scans to the beginning of this gallery. When I'm done I'll re-sort everyone alphabetically.

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Star Princess	Ecstasy	Ecstasy
Ecstasy	Star Princess	Westerdam
Royal Viking Sun	Atlantic	Atlantic
Atlantic	Queen of Bermud-orama	Sagafjord
Sagafjord	Sagafjord	Sagafjord
Four cruise ships	Royal Viking Sun	Crown Princess
Sovereign of the Seas	Vistafjord	Regent Star
Ecstasy	Crown Princess	Queen of Bermuda
Nieuw Amsterdam	Royal Princess	Royal Princess
Queen of Bermuda	Sagafjord	Royal Viking Star
Crown Princess	Sunward II	Atlantic
Charlotte Amalie	Royal Viking Star	Sovereign of the Seas
Nordic Prince	Sovereign of the Seas	Royal Viking Star
Royal Viking Star	Queen of Bermuda	Nordic Prince
Nieuw Amsterdam	Star Princess	Sovereign of the Seas
Ecstasy	Vistafjord	Royal Viking Sea
Atlantic	A bit of scale	Royal Viking Sun
Atlantic	Queen of Bermuda	Atlantic
Royal Viking Sun	Memories of a golden age	Vistafjord
Royal Viking Star	Explorer Starship	Royal Viking Star
Queen of Bermuda	Ecstasy	Ecstasy
Watch Your Head	Royal Princess	Astor
Royal Princess	S.S. Rotterdam	Sagafjord
Ocean liner	Royal Viking Star	Sagafjord
QE2	Ecstasy	Royal Viking Star
Atlantic	Royal Viking Star	Amerikanis
Amerikanis	Amerikanis	Atlantic
Bermuda Star	Caribe I	Caribe I
Caribe I	Carnivale	Carnivale
Carnivale	Celebration and Fantasy	CostaRiviera
CostaRiviera	CostaRiviera	Cunard Princess
Cunard Princess	Dolphin IV	Dolphin IV
Dolphin IV	Dolphin IV	Dolphin IV
Ecstasy	Emerald Seas	Emerald Seas
Emerald Seas	Fairsea	Fantasy
Fantasy	Galileo	Galileo
Holiday	Holiday	Holiday
Holiday	Holiday	Holiday
Holiday	Holiday	Holiday
Holiday	Homeric	Homeric
Homeric	Homeric	Homeric
Horizon	Horizon	Horizon
Horizon	Mardi Gras	Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras	Meridien	Meridien
Nieuw Amsterdam	Nieuw Amsterdam	Noordam
Noordam	Nordic Prince	Nordic Prince
Nordic Prince	Nordic Prince	Nordic Prince
Nordic Prince	Norway	Norway
Norway	Norway	Norway
Norway	Norway	Norway
Norway	Norway	Norway
Norway	Queen of Bermuda	Regent Star
S.S. Rotterdam	Royal Odyssey	Royal Odyssey
Royal Odyssey	Royal Odyssey	Royal Odyssey
Royal Odyssey	Royal Odyssey	Royal Odyssey
Royal Viking Sea	Royal Viking Sea	Royal Viking Star
Royal Viking Star	Royal Viking Star	Royal Viking Star
Royal Viking Star	Royal Viking Sun	Sagafjord
Seaward	Seaward	Sky Princess
Sky Princess	Sky Princess	Skyward
Skyward	Song of America	Song of America
Song of America	Song of Norway	Song of Norway
Song of Norway	Song of Norway	Song of Norway
Southward	Star Princess	Star Princess
Sun Viking	Sun Viking	Sun Viking
Sun Viking	Sun Viking	Sunward II
Sunward II	Vistafjord	Westerdam
Westward	Westward

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ANDREA		03-Jul-2015 15:15
VERY NICE SKIFUL PBASE ANDREA

ANDREA		16-Jun-2015 16:21
THIS AND THIS VICTOR

Carla Resh		18-Feb-2011 04:56
Great gallery....maybe some day .....I would love to take the Alaskan Cruise..V

Sam Bashir		03-Dec-2010 05:50
Excellent and intriguing selection of images and information. Thank you for sharing these fine images Jason.

Tommy		01-Dec-2010 01:58
I left a message on the Atlantic photo, but thanks again for posting all these pix of the old girls. Have been on a couple and glad to see that some are still sailing.

Dave Berry		25-Nov-2010 05:53
Although our only cruise has been on a Maine windjammer (wonderful), I thorughly enjoyed this fantastic gallery. Thank you for sharing. Voted

Josh Cruz		15-Nov-2010 05:12
Very good collection, amazing! Thank you for sharing, please keep shooting and posting.

HMCS Uganda		14-Nov-2010 05:11
Fascinating collection, Bravo!

Hernan E. Enriquez		26-Oct-2010 04:52
Fascinating gallery Jason, great job of documenting the images!

Jean D		22-Oct-2010 01:48
WOW! Excellent collection of vintage cruise ships!!

Lee G		21-Oct-2010 05:32
Adding to the Exzim's request,, please provide boarding passes to the cruise ships you recommend cruising on. You are the Cruise Director of Pbase, Jason, this is one excellent collection!

bill friedlander		20-Oct-2010 17:44
Thats quite a collection you assembled here Jason. You did a great job photographing these ships. V

exzim		20-Oct-2010 16:05
Jason, how about a tag for those you recommend cruising on.

Jean D		26-Mar-2009 00:02
Excellent collection of superb ships and all beautifully imaged, Jason!

1moremile		06-Mar-2009 01:27
I didn't realize you knew so dang much about these. You must have been on a dozen or so cruises. Lucky. Boated. (voted)

alfredo camba jr.		21-Feb-2009 15:39
Very nice and interesting gallery! Beautiful images! Vote

Jim Coffman		15-Aug-2008 00:24
This is one fine collection of ships! Well done. V

Guest		01-Aug-2008 15:19
What a great collection of ships, you should hang out at shipspotter ... or something forum.

Dan Chusid		30-Apr-2008 00:42
Guess I'm in the 95% that has never 'cruised'. Must have saved me a lot of extra pounds!

Guest		24-Sep-2007 17:10
do all of these ships launch out of beautiful tropical newport, RI? i've never been on one either, but i've been on a few aircraft carriers. i'm sure these are nicer....

1moremile		28-Aug-2007 23:14
I have never been on one of these. Too bad, too. They don't know what they were missing.

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