PHILIPPINES: 1952 - Deck plan w/ color interior photos Companhia Colonial de Navegacao and two different suites

and two different suites

But operating American-flagged passenger ships was a loosing proposition

and surprisingly large and comfy-looking cabins

The First Class plan opens to 26" square and shows six decks

and soaring oil prices sent her to the breakers in 1975

PHILIPPINES: 1952 - Deck plan w/ color interior photos Companhia Colonial de Navegacao and two different suitesItalian 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.