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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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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