Lovely simple glass ashtray form a grace Line steamer. Grace is printed in Green on the bottom of the clear glass tray. Excellent shape!

Great Voyage issue (#16) that covers many things like Titanic news, J treasure Jones passing as well as a great article on the Grace’s last Santa Rosa and Paula. Great shape and fill of maritime great info!

Great little bar of Ivory soap from a Grace Line ship. great little item …stills smells fresh as the day it was made! There are a few rust stains to the paper wrapper

Lovely foldout, issued in March 1965 this is in great shape. pretty ocean blue there are a few ship picture inside with all the rate info … also nice little description of the 2 sisters.

Double set of playing cards the last Grace Line twins. Gibb’s designed, they were the last passenger ships built at Newport News. The cards are very lightly used and in great shape ..all there in a heavy plastic case.

2 solid brass crew buttons from the Grace Line. These could use a good shining and seem to be in great shape with a little tarnish.

A single sheet of folded SS Independence paper. In good folded condition ready for your next shippie letter.

A great late from a Grace Line ship… Gold trimmed and sporting the Grace Line Flag. This defintely shows signs of onboard use … but in over all good condition No chicps or cracks.

The one and only commercial Neuclear powere ship .. the NS Savannah. Frank Braynard suggested the name for the ship to honor the first steam powed vessel to cross the ocean the SS Savannah of 1819 .. who was alos American. The “Atoms for Peace” ship was never really profitable… but she did demonstrate a Nuclear ship could be built, clean and functional, She can be toured today in Baltimore harbor when she is maintained. The cards did come from Frank’s VAST collection .. he had stacks! great condition and unused.

Excellent deck plan for the inaugural year of service for the ss Atlantic .. which joined American Export after her one class services with American Banner Line flopped. She said on for many, many years as the university ship the SS Universe. The plan is in great shape . stock photo

Excellent Brass and Marble trophy for the Santa Mercedes .. in pristine shape with original box. Built for Grace and sold to Delta when Grace gave up on passenger service. The ships were built without traditional funnels .. and their funnels were added later in life for pretty much aesthetic reasons. The green box has a hole in the top where the funnel has slightly punctured it.

Excellent Brass and Marble trophy for the Santa Mercedes .. in pristine shape with original box. Built for Grace and sold to Delta when Grace gave up on passenger service. The ships were built without traditional funnels .. and their funnels were added later in life for pretty much aesthetic reasons. The green box is in excellent shape.

The Indy and Connie were our main liners to the Mediterranean. There exterior and Interior design were certainly wonderful. Impeccable little booklet type deckplan with a blue cover .. I really prefer there over the multi fold plans that were done at other times . Both liners had long life’s and finished their careers in the Hawaiian market. Excellent condition! Note this is a later plan … their original rounded superstructure has been remodeled and squared off.

Outstanding, huge and magnificent deck plan done to cover AE’s popular 4 Aces. I have often wondered why the marketing team created such a huge an lavish deck plan for these little ladies but I think it was because they were so popular and such money earners for the fleet. If you love these little ladies.. this is the best Isometric DP done for them Post WW2. You can’t find one better than this ..excellent condition.

Awesome photo of the ship at NN. The year is 1922 and she will shortly be undergoing her enormous conversion to peacetime use directed by the young WFGibbs. The ships ghostly grey silhouette is shown against the shipyard.. the huge crane clearly in the back ground. Though she would never be a major breadwinner, she brought a lot of international prestige to the US Maritime Community. The photos is in great shape .. whiting on the back telling the date and location of the photo.

Lovely breakfast menu for the little lady of the USL fleet. Selections could have been made of: Fruits, Cereals, Fish, Eggs. Meats, “From the Grill”, Preserves and Beverages .. the chef covered it all! I would have gotten a lot fatter if I lived back then … Excellent shape!

Lovely breakfast menu for the little lady of the USL fleet. selections could have been made of: Fruits, Cereals, Fish, Eggs. Meats, From the Grill, Preserves and Beverages .. the chef covered it all! I would have gotten a lot fatter if I lived back then … Excellent shape!

One breakfast, one lunch and one dinner menus from a (March 23) 1957 voyage. You can’t beat these meals with all the fixins!

Wonderful little guest list for the 1987 USL reunion at the American Merchant Marine Museum. The gathering took place on Halloween 1987 … putting this in perspective, I would have graduated form High School only a few months before. Of Course Frank Braynard was a host … and his lovely wife Doris was also a volunteer. Several of the names stand out to me… Commodore Leroy and Mrs. Alexanderson, Nick Bachko and wife, Dan Eschen just to name a few. The photocopy list is cleverly placed inside a USL Passenger list folder. .. one of the 10000 that were probably available when the SSUS was laid up in 1969.

Great Miniature DP for the lovely little America. Launched in late 1939 .. she was the new flagship and a little larger version of the SS Manhattan and SS Washington. After WW2 she was the running mate of the SSUS. She was sold in the mid Sixties to the Greeks and saw service for many many more years. Excellent condition and include interior room pictures. Printed in March 1954.

Excellent Post WW2 Publicity shot of the Santa Paula … and 2 other Santa Freighter’s. Lovely crisp detail … you can see the Colgate clock in the harbor background. Peacetime had returned!

A great little passenger list from the Maiden voyage of the darling President Wilson. APL was formed with the intervention of the US Government .. combining the Dollar and smaller Pacific coast lines. Lovely maiden list from the lovely post war President Wilson .. she sailed from Yokohama in June of 1948. The list includes facts about the ship as well as a glossary of nautical terms. Great condition with a little ghosting of some of the text.

Lovely passenger list from the second voyage of the President Cleveland dated 2-20-1948. She left San Francisco and sailed to Honolulu, Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila. There are specs on the ship as well as a nice glossary of “nautical terms”. Bright colors with a little scuffing here and there.

A lovely early postcard for the ship …showing a concept rendering of what the ship would look like. This is actually one of my favorite concept views of the ship … and her final construction was a little different. Great card!

Great George Washington’s Birthday Menus for 2/22/56. The America was out on the Atlantic … of course, Captain Frederick Fender at the helm. The menus is in great shape with r/w/b and gold trimmings.