Ramblings of a Salty Seadog

Dickie Bull Deputy Purser for the Inaugural Cruise of P&O/Princess Cruises PACIFIC PRINCESS - 1975 - Sadly passed away recently. In 1974...

PACIFIC PRINCESS - THE LOVE BOAT - 1976 As the Love Boat (Pacific Princess) sailed into Acapulco Bay in April 1975, we experienced a...

Mention of Pacific Princess and the “The Love Boat” springs immediately to mind. This is what happened on a recent cruise on Azamara...

Dancing the Dance When I joined Oriana back in 1973 Captain John Wacher was the Master of the ship. As a very junior officer on my first...

On 24th April 1978, I walked down the gangway as a crew member having signed off ships articles for the last time, little did I know that...

All the booze and tobacco onboard ship was duty free so on arrival in certain ports of call the main booze and tobacco storerooms would...

I would say the Purser’s office was the heart of the ship, of course the deck department and engineering department might argue...

In October 1975 Pacific Princess departed American shores and headed to the Australia and the South Pacific for the first time. At the...

When P&O acquired Princess Cruise in 1974 Island Princess’s first cruise season was basically Mexican Cruising. Pacific Princess joined...

In 1974 P & O which by 1960 had become the world's largest shipping company, with 320 oceangoing vessels, acquired Princess Cruise Lines....