Advertising Brochure M.S. Linblad Explorer

Brochure advertising the cruises offered on board the MS Linblad Explorer.


Order number: JSS Box 3414
Date(s) of creation: 1981-1982
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with JSS Box 3414
callnumber JSS/3/9/3/7
callnumber_txt JSS/3/9/3/7
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prefix_number 7
scb_previous_numbers JSS/2012/017
title Advertising Brochure M.S. Linblad Explorer
scb_date_creation 1981-1982
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 1 volume
format Archive
scb_admin_history Built in 1969, Lindblad Explorer was the first custom-built vessel for the expeditionary cruise market. Carrying just 90 passengers, she cruised to the Antarctic Peninsula from Ushuaia or Punta Arenas via the Falkland Islands every southern summer and, during the remainder of the year, visited far flung destinations as then untouched by tourism, including Easter Island, the Galapagos, Alaska and the Amazon. CNCo acquired a 50% stake in the venture in 1980. It was a unique business and far removed from China Navigation’s cruise experience to date. Under the Swire flag, Lindblad Explorer became the first cruise ship to take American passengers into China since World War II, and undertook an 11,000-mile sub-Antarctic cruise from New Zealand to Argentina, as well as visiting the remoter islands in the Indonesian archipelago, the Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea and the Red Sea. Passengers returned again and again but the adventure proved commercially disappointing and, at the end of two years, it was clear the operation was not a viable one for Swire long-term.
description Brochure advertising the cruises offered on board the MS Linblad Explorer.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London
scb_use_restrictions Copying is permitted for personal research purposes only. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
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hierarchy_sequence JSS.003.009.003.007