Sailed on this vessel as relief engineer for MEBA on a short Island cruise of approx 45 days. What a Blast!
Feed you like a king and was a quality job. Lots of engineering personnel on staff. Quality US build.

Shipping the large union crews aboard US flag passenger ships kept the National Maritime Union dispatchers busy during the years these Twins ran for their builders, the Moore-McCormack lines. The union hall on 7th Ave had gone up on the block between 13th and 14th St in NYC's Greenwich Village only a few years earlier designed by the New Orleans architect Albert C Ledner. With its porthole windows and its rooftop elevator bulkheads designed to appear as a ships funnel it is still reiminiscent of a ship docked in the middle of the city. Hundreds of seamen would await the posting of these jobs. Wonderful days, never to be repeated and now barely remembered. The union's nearby Joesph Curran Annex is now the chic and expensive"boutique" Maritime hotel. Joe Curran would roll in his grave.

How wonderful is this classic scene! mrdot.

So beautiful, both ship and photo. It almost hurts to see what we have lost!

Denis,see below for a link to a photo of Brasil. It's a three-quarter stern shot so not so easy to compare alongside this one above but it might help.
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2018442

Thanks, Clive - sadly no photos of her original guise here though...
Now let me continue enjoying this clean & calming sight! :D

Kind regards!

Wonderful, wonderful photograph - beautiful ship.
Denis, the 'forehead' and top structure aft of it were subsequent additions to the original design. However, the dummy funnel and aft exhausts are original. Though the 'funnel' had a glazed structure as part of the original, as it was used as a 'solarium' for nude sunbathing.

Brilliant photo of this quite beautiful cruiser!
As I would guess, the "forehead", dummy funnel & 2 pipes weren't present in the initial design?