Havana Letter, Jan. 23; The Capture of Bayamo. Skip to content Skip to site index ... ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP MORRO CASTLE, AFFAIRS IN CUBA. Share full article. Jan. 28, 1869.

The crowds gathered in the early-morning light along the shores of the lower Chesapeake Bay to catch a glimpse of the luxury liner Morro Castle. In the waters where the Ward Line turboelectric ...

ARRIVAL OF THE HAVANA STEAMER MORRO CASTLE. Share full article. Dec. 1, 1870. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 1, 1870, Page 8 Buy Reprints.

They were aboard the SS Morro Castle. Over the radio came the news: The luxury ship, returning to New York City from Havana, was on fire. "It was a cold, rainy day," Wacker, of Hobe Sound, remembers.

In the same spot 80 years before the Morro Castle disaster, the sailing ship New Era ran aground in a ferocious storm in 1854. "The people who had remained on the ship, some of them had latched ...

Cuba is famous for its rum cocktails and on Wednesday evening below Havana’s iconic Morro Castle, guarding its bay, 400 people gathered to toast its best-known rum, Havana Club, but not with ...

These two devoted sisters, natives of Pottstown, Pa., had decided to take one of the Ward Line’s “Get Away From the Depression” cruises to Havana. The Morro Castle party began the moment the ...