Various Ships - 6 ex-German combo liners for Orient Overseas Line French Line OOL laid up ORIENTAL EMPRESS

OOL laid up ORIENTAL EMPRESS and the ship sat deteriorating until being broken up in the early 1980s

Then a Swedish company announced plans to bring the 79-year-old ship to Stockholm to become a hotel-restaurant

When the oil crisis hit in 1973

upholstered chair & steam heat ventilation

and Tourist Class Dining Room

Various Ships - 6 ex-German combo liners for Orient Overseas Line French Line OOL laid up ORIENTAL EMPRESSOrient Overseas Line: A fold out interiors brochure with deck plans for six former German combo liners. These ships were built in the early 1950s when loosening Allied restrictions allowed Germany to reenter the merchant marine. In the mid 1960s they were replaced with an updated fleet and sold off. C. Y. Tung added them to his globe trotting fleet. North German Lloyd sold the BAYERNSTEIN (ORIENTAL LADY), HESSENSTEIN (ORIENTAL MUSICIAN), and