Posted by Harold Shaw on September 28, 2000 at 20:30:01:
This may or may not belong here, so if it doesn't, please forgive. When exactly did it become standard practice to pint liners, and subsequently cruisers, white? When you think of nearly any passenger vessel these days, with the obvious exception of the Norway, the new Disney cruisers and the QE2 (and as I recall, the QE2 has been either white or a light gray a couple of times), you usually think of white. I seem to recall from a few books of liner and cruiser history that the Polish liners were the first to go white, right around the time Canberra was being built.
So, in short, why did they go white when they seem to look so much more sleek in black or another darker color.