PHILIPPINES: 1952 - Deck plan w/ color interior photos Companhia Colonial de Navegacao and surprisingly large and comfy-looking

and surprisingly large and comfy-looking cabins

There is a view at sea with "Manila Floating Hotel & Restaurant airbrushed onto the hull

even the humble AMERICAN BANKER class of combo-liners gets the same deluxe treatment as luxo-liners like LEVIATHAN and MAJESTIC

complete with a bar on one end

and CRISTOBAL

PHILIPPINES: 1952 - Deck plan w/ color interior photos Companhia Colonial de Navegacao and surprisingly large and comfy-lookingItalian Line: A fold out (20" by 24") deck plan for the M S PHILIPPINES, the Manila time warp hotel that was once the sleek AUGUSTUS. In the early 1950s the AUGUSTUS provided design cues for the ANDREA DORIA and other liners. She was sold off in 1976 and ended up as a hotel ship in Manila. And there was sat, decade after decade, sometimes open to the public, and often not. Peter Knego reports that her gorgeous mid century interiors were mostly intact.