OctoberKat Posted December 12, 2014 #1 Share Posted December 12, 2014 (edited) It's defunct now but had an illustrious history sailing from NYC to Cristobal, Panama, stopping at Havana (back in the pre-Castro naughty days), then from New Orleans to Cristobal stopping at Port-au-Prince. My mother, age 27 and affianced, sailed on the SS Ancon in 1940 to marry my father in Panama. Edited December 12, 2014 by OctoberKat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted December 12, 2014 #2 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Very nice. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillB48 Posted December 12, 2014 #3 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Your subject line intrigued me... I had this pic I lifted from some of my father's slides. He took it in the mid 50s when two of the Panama Line sister ships were meeting in Port-Au-Prince. Don't remember which one of the ships he was on at the time of the photo... either the Ancon or Cristobal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OctoberKat Posted December 12, 2014 Author #4 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Great pix, Bill, thank you. I sailed on both ships often whilst growing up in the Canal Zone between 1950-1968. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCRUZER Posted December 21, 2014 #5 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I sailed on the Panama Line every summer between Cristobal and NYC and we always stopped in Port-Au-Prince.The last two years (62&63) we sailed to New Orleans and it was a straight shot with no stop in Haiti.Still have many fond memories of those trips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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