William H. Miller (writer) explained

William Henry Miller Jr. (born May 3, 1948) is a maritime author and historian who has written numerous books dealing with the golden age of ocean liners.

Miller was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on May 3, 1948. In addition to his teaching career and writing over 40 books and many articles on the great liners, he was chairman of the World Ship Society's Port of New York Branch from 1970 to 1976. He was deputy director of the New York Harbor Festival Foundation from 1979 to 1982.[1]

He was historian at the Museum of the American Merchant Marine in 1979 and creator of a course entitled "The Ocean Liner" at the New School of Social Research in Manhattan in 1981. He also created the passenger ship database for the Ellis Island Museum.[2] He appeared in the documentary . A documentary about his life and studies, Mr. Ocean Liner, premiered aboard RMS Queen Mary 2 on July 1, 2010.[3]

In 2020, during the Coronavirus cruising pause, Miller started to participate in online Youtube and Zoom interviews, discussing cruising.[4]

Bibliography

  • Transatlantic Liners, 1945-1980 (1981)
  • The Great Luxury Liners, 1927-1954: A Photographic Record (1981)
  • The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs: 193 Views, 1897-1927 (1984)
  • The Last Atlantic Liners (1985)
  • Transatlantic Liners at War: The Story of the Queens (1985)
  • The Fabulous Interiors of the Great Ocean Liners in Historic Photographs (1985)
  • Fifty Famous Liners 2 (co-author, 1985)
  • British Ocean Liners: A Twilight Era, 1960-85 (1986)
  • The New York Harbor Book (co-author, 1986)
  • The Last Blue Water Liners (1986)
  • Famous Ocean Liners: The Story of Passenger Shipping, from the Turn of the Century to the Present Day (1987)
  • Liner: Fifty Years of Passenger Ship Photographs (1987)
  • Great Cruise Ships and Ocean Liners from 1954 to 1986: A Photographic Survey (1988)
  • German Ocean Liners of the 20th Century (1989)
  • SS United States: The Story of America's Greatest Ocean Liner (1991)
  • Picture History of the Cunard Line, 1840-1990 (co-author, 1991)
  • Norton Lilly: 150 Years of Shipping ASIN: B0006P4WUI (1991)
  • Modern Cruise Ships, 1965-1990: A Photographic Record (1992)
  • The Chandris Liners (1993)
  • New York Shipping (1994)
  • Pictorial Encyclopedia of Ocean Liners, 1860-1994 (1995)
  • Picture History of the French Line (1997)
  • The Liners: A Voyage of Discovery (co-author, 1997)
  • The Picture History of the Italian Line, 1932-1977 (1999)
  • Picture History of American Passenger Ships (2001)
  • Picture History of British Ocean Liners: 1900 to the Present (2001)
  • SS Independence SS Constitution (2001)
  • Picture History of German and Dutch Passenger Ships (2002)
  • Picture History of the SS United States (2003)
  • Picture History of the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth (2004)
  • The Picture History of the Andrea Doria (2005)
  • Liners of the Golden Age (co-author, 2005)
  • Great Ships in New York Harbor: 175 Historic Photographs, 1935-2005 (2005)
  • On the Waterfront: The Great Ships of Hoboken (2005)
  • Doomed Ships: Great Ocean Liner Disasters (2006)
  • SS Canberra (2007)
  • The QE2: A Picture History (2008)
  • Under the Red Ensign: British Passenger Liners of the 50s & 60s (2008)
  • SS United States: Speed Queen of the Seas (2009)
  • SS France/Norway (2009)
  • Cunard's Three Queens: A Celebration (2009)
  • SS Nieuw Amsterdam: The Darling of the Dutch (2010)
  • RMS Caronia: Cunard's Green Goddess (co-author, 2011)
  • Floating Palaces (2011)
  • The Great Liners Story (2012)
  • Along the Hudson: Luxury Liner Row in the 1950s and 60s (2012)
  • Great Atlantic Liners of the Twentieth Century in Color (co-author, 2013)
  • Classic Liners Île de France and Liberté: France's Premier Post-War Liners (2013)
  • SS Normandie (2013)
  • UNION CASTLE LINERS: Southampton to the South African Cape 1946-1977 (2013)
  • Cunard's Modern Queens: A Celebration (2014)
  • P & O Orient Liners of the 1950s and 1960s (2014)
  • Great French Passenger Ships (2014)
  • Great Passenger Ships: 1920-1930 (2014)
  • British India Steam Navigation Co. Liners of the 1950s and 1960s (2014)
  • Cunard-White Star Liners of the 1930s (2015)
  • Post-war Canadian Pacific Liners: Empresses of the Atlantic (2015)
  • Along the Waterfront: Freighters at New York in the 1950s and 1960s (2016)
  • First Class Cargo: A History of Combination Cargo-Passenger Ships (2016)

Notes and References

  1. http://www.oceancruisenews.com/bmiller.htm Several stories by Bill Miller
  2. Web site: Ellis Island. 4 February 2020.
  3. Web site: "Mr. Ocean Liner Premiere" Aboard QUEEN MARY 2 MaritimeMatters Cruise ship news and ocean liner history . maritimematters.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100714155354/http://maritimematters.com/2010/07/mr-ocean-liner-premiere-aboard-queen-mary-2 . 2010-07-14.
  4. Web site: Cruising and COVID-19.

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