Various: pre-war - 1940 Ellerman & Hall Lines rates brochure w/ ships of tragedy Costa Line The views include the Dining

The views include the Dining Room

Other than converting the Tourist Class Galley into a "Rumpus Room"

the other a long-serving migrant liner

The ship followed the old East Africa route through the Suez Canal with additional stops at Reunion Island

Far-flung routes such as those operated by Lloyd Triestino lasted until the early 1970s when the jumbo jet took over

Various: pre-war - 1940 Ellerman & Hall Lines rates brochure w/ ships of tragedy Costa Line The views include the DiningEllerman City & Hall Lines The sad irony of it all. "If 1940 is your lucky year, travel City & Hall Lines" is the slogan printed on the back of this twelve page rates brochure featuring flagship CITY OF BENARES on the cover. But before September 1940 was finished, that ship and fleetmate CITY OF SIMLA would be torpedoed and sunk with a great loss of life. Also included in the brochure is the CITY OF VENICE which would go to the bottom in June 1943.