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- From: kene@sequent.com (Ken Ewing)
- Subject: Re: Travel by merchant ship
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.162420.4150@sequent.com>
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- References: <29761@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 16:24:20 GMT
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- In article <29761@castle.ed.ac.uk> ercn72@festival.ed.ac.uk (R.J.Hare) writes:
- >Once upon a time, it was possible for travellers to move around the world as
- >passengers on commercial ships - such ships would have a passnger cabin or
- >two, and I guess that one could go to real out of the way places by this
- >method. I believe for example that the Geest company used to do this (and I
- >will be writing to them to check if they still do).
- >
- >Does anyone out there know af any other shipping lines which (still?) do this?
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >Roger Hare.
-
- Some years ago I saw a book in a book store called "Tramp Steamers"
- (I think that was the title...it might have been the subtitle). It was
- a nice hardback book and was a catalogue of modern-day merchant ships
- that still offered passenger cabins. I've kicked myself a hundred times
- for not buying it, and I've looked for it on-and-off over the last few
- years and have never seen it again (I saw it quite a bit some years ago).
-
- Ken Ewing
- Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
- Beaverton, Oregon
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