‘The Red Devils’, Ocean Monarch’s football team, won the Atlantic Cup in 1966, beating competition from other ocean liners.   Photo: Courtesy of the Ernie Barrow collection.

 

New York, April 14th 1961, when 6,400 passengers departed in a single day.  From top to bottom at

Pier 97: HANSEATIC, Hamburg Atlantic Line, ITALIA, Home Lines

Pier 95: OCEAN MONARCH, Furness Bermuda Line, QUEEN OF BERMUDA, Furness Bermuda Line

Pier 92: SYLVANIA, Cunard, LILLEVAN, Cunard charter freighter, CHRISTINA, Onassis yacht

Pier 88: FLANDRE, French Line, OLYMPIA, Greek Line

Pier 86: UNITED STATES, United States Lines

Pier 84: (bottom) ATLANTIC, American Export Lines.

Photo: from the collection of Bill Miller by kind permission of Des Kirkpatrick.

 

 

 

 

Queen Mary, with the Empire State Building in the background.  Taken from Ocean Monarch, berthed in Hoboken, NJ for repairs following a fire in 1962.

Photo: Des Kirkpatrick.

‘Sink the Queen!’.  Ocean Monarch supporters at the annual Furness Bermuda Line cup match against rivals Queen of Bermuda.  Can you put names the faces and give us the year?.  Captain ‘Ginger’ Heys, Henry Latoy and family, Al James and  Carol Mercer are here, to name but a few.  Photo: Courtesy of Malcolm Sargent from the collection of Henry Latoy.

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Ocean Monarch in the River Mersey, off Pier Head, Liverpool.  Possibly 1963 or 1965.  Photograph from the collection of Ron Gouldbourne.

We are grateful to Richard Schilling for contacting the website with a movie he has created from film taken by his Great Grandfather, aboard Monarch of Bermuda in 1936.

Scenes in this remarkable archive include Queen of Bermuda, Monarch of Bermuda, the Bermudiana Hotel and the Bermuda Railway.

To view the film, click on this new link: http://vimeo.com/11763923

Link provided courtesy of Richard Schilling.  The film may not be copied or used for any commercial purpose without the express permission of the owner.

Des Kirkpatrick, former purser on Ocean Monarch in the 1960s, had hoped to display his rare copy of a passenger list from a voyage of Monarch of Bermuda in 1933 at the Grand Reunion, but was disappointed not to be able to attend.  Nonetheless, he has provided Furnessbermudaline.com access to this amazing document, some pages of which are set out below.  Original, courtesy of Des Kirkpatrick.

College Week courtesy card  -  collection of Alva James.

The video extract below is from, what appears to be, a 1962 promotional film made by or for the former Furness Bermuda Line.   We are trying to determine ownership and would welcome information about this film.  The movie is twenty-six minutes long and, as a taster of what is to come in future updates, a short sequence can be viewed by clicking below.  No prizes for identifying the stars of the film - our own Shirley Thompson and Ernest ‘Steve’ Stephens!

Contributed by former crew members and passengers

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