SS Independence was a US liner, which entered service in february 1951 for American Export Line. On january 22 in the New York docks people gather to visit the largest US ship made in the last 12 years. For one week the luxurious liner was opened to people..... and 3.000 of the specially designed ash trays were stolen.
This 26 knot, 682 foot, 26.000 ton liner was designed primarily for Mediterranean cruises. It could carry 1.000 passengers in air-conditioned luxury cabins, apartments and penthouses designed by Herny Dreyfuss. Onboard there were fift avenue shops, handsome public rooms and bars decorated with old tattoo designs, collections of ships in bottles and early american silver. It also included 125 feet of picture windows in the observation lounge, polarized glass in portholes to control light and glare and bedside telephones from which a passenger can phone anyone within 5.000 miles.
One of four bars entertains some of 6.000 visitors who attended various fetes before ship left on frist cruise.
Poolside cafe serves only soda. Has glass walls which slide back, making the pool and the cafe one.
Chef William G. Mauss.
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