The United States Merchant Navy training steamer EMPIRE STATE leaving Lisbon on 28 July 2014 on a very atmospheric mood, after her first call ever in Lisbon. The EMPIRE STATE is the training Ship of the State University of New York Nautical College, which I visited many years ago to see the SS UNITED STATES propellor they have on display.
The EMPIRE STATE is a former fast turbine cargo passenger liner built for transpacific sercice of the States Steamship Company as OREGON in 1962. She is now the last of a kind and a very beautiful and interesting ship.
The present T.S. EMPIRE STATE is the sixth under this name to serve the SUNY Nautical College. I was lucky to have photographed her previous namesake, a former American President Lines passenger cargo liner, back in 1989 in Miami.Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia