ALCOA CAVALIER, CLIPPER & CORSAIR - 1955 interiors & deck plan brochure w/ delightful illustrationsAlcoa Line: A sixteen page Caribbean cruise brochure from 1955 for the streamlined trio ALCOA CAVALIER, ALCOA CLIPPER, and ALCOA CORSAIR. The three passenger decks are rendered in that wonderful isometric, or 3 D, style that made French Line plans from the 1930s so desirable. The furniture in cabins and public rooms cast little shadows. I feel like that with a flick of my finger I could scoot a chair out of the way or rearrange the Lounge. Color

deck plans

a rugged ship that had almost as many lives as the proverbial cat

There's a page of glowing text

Sea Racers (two ships)

While First Class got a deck of interconnecting public rooms

From "For the Gourmet (Tourist or First Class) Aboard the S

On the back cover is a color portrait of the MICHELANGELO

in its own way

many of the former First Class cabins amidships reminded while towards the stern large blocks of tiny cubbies were fitted

Switzerland to Rotterdam

even the humble AMERICAN BANKER class of combo-liners gets the same deluxe treatment as luxo-liners like LEVIATHAN and MAJESTIC

sometimes open to the public