FRANCONIA: 1923 - Deluxe, 48-page World Cruise brochure for 1939 Alaska Steamship swimming pools

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Delta Line: A rare 1940 maiden voyage cachet for the DELTARGENTINO

In early 1974 both ships were sold to wreckers and scrapped in Taiwan

Too bad three out of the five were destroyed during WW2

Afterwards the C-3 class became the mainstay of American shipping such as the FOUR ACES of American Export

FRANCONIA: 1923 - Deluxe, 48-page World Cruise brochure for 1939 Alaska Steamship swimming poolsCunard Line: A deluxe, forty eight page brochure for the FRANCONIA's 1939 World Cruise. The thick stock covers are embossed with Asian designs and trimmed in gold foil. The ship departed New York on January 5th and arrived back on May 31st. First it sailed south with stops at the glamourous South American hotspots of Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires. From there, FRANNY steamed across the Atlantic to South Africa and onto India, Singapore,