This album is quite the time capsule! Lovingly put together by a passenger on this incredible (And very expensive!) 60 day Cruise (read newspaper excerpt below for many details). The album itself begins with the TS Hamburg and Marquesas Islands, then Fiji and New Caledonia (Noumea), New Guinea, Singapore (many Singapore cards!). It continues with Bangkok Thailand, Hong Kong, Kowloon & New Territories, Taiwan, Kobe Yokohama and Tokyo Japan, finishing in Hawaii. There is commentary about the regions alongside the Postcards. I don't want to pull every single card out but I'm pretty sure all the Postcards are unused. The Hamburg one is stamped from Germany. After the Postcards are newspaper clippings. The scotch tape that was used on these pages is dried and brittle. Some are detached and others are becoming detached. WAY too much for 12 pictures so please message me for more if you require. There are also extra (Loose) Postcards included. 32 pages front to back

Newspaper clipping from June 1972 Waikiki Beach Press

German Flagship Arrives June 2

The TS Hamburg, flag- ship of German Atlantic Line, is due to arrive Fri- day, June 2, at 8 a.m. at Pier 10 with 500 passen- gers.

On her grand Orient Pacific cruise, the ship will sail at 1 a.m. June 3 for Los Angeles and then to San Francisco. She will begin her North Cape cruise after the two California cities.

Among the 500 passen-gers aboard are 177 German citizens. They will be extended the traditional aloha of flower leis and Hawaiian music. Sightseeing tours have been arranged for the visitors.

After departing April 9 from San Francisco and April 10 from Los Angeles, the Hamburg started her 60-day cruise, which will cover 21,000 miles. Fifteen ports of call are included.

THIS CRUISE on the Hamburg, the first passenger vessel built in Germany since 1938, includes calls at Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands; Papeete, Society Islands; Opunohu Bay, Society Islands; Pago Pago, American Samoa; Suva, Fiji Islands; Noumea, New Caledonia; Port Moresby, New Gui- nea; Bali, Indonesia; Singapore; Bangkok, Thailand; Hong Kong; Keelung, Taiwan; Kobe, Japan; Yokohama (for Tokyo), Japan; and Honolulu, Hawaii. The vessel arrives in Los Angeles June 7 and sail to San Francisco the next day.

Passengers on the Hamburg have found that the vessel offers them all of the comforts of home -- and a number of added luxuries for good measure while they have cruised around the South Pacific sampling the sights and sounds of that area of the world. They also have dis covered that taking a cruise on a luxury liner today (and in the future) is practically the last place where a traveler seeking luxury and elegance can be completely catered to. Once on board he can remove himself from his daily hectic pace and have a complete vacation with packing and unpacking, worrying about room reservations, wondering where to eat or what to do next. A cruise ship is a luxury hotel, country club, restaurant and nightclub combined the ultimate in gracious living.

In command of the Hamburg is Capt. Peter Lohmeyer, a veteran of the sea whose career goes back 45 years to when he received his first training on sailing ships. (Seller note: This captain was a U-boat Commander in WWII and taken as a Prisoner of war for 5 years.) He is assisted by Gerhard Pukrop, chief purser, and Rolf Marx, chief steward, and a large staff of other veteran officers whose own careers span almost as many years at sea,