This is a 1960’s era, color movie about the Grace Line that opens with a married couple speaking on the couch in their home. They are talking about taking a vacation. They discuss going on a cruise. The ships mentioned are the SS Santa Rosa and the SS Santa Paula. The couple visits a travel agent, 2:00. Sights of NYC are shown, 2:30. The couple boards the cruise ship, 3:08. The ship departs, 3:45. View of ship on the NYC skyline, 4:08. The couple enters their stateroom, 4:49. View of NY harbor, 5:15. Aerial view of cruise ship, 5:26. Travelers sunbathe and enjoy the cruise deck, 6:15. The captain greets the guests, 6:30. Captain throws a cocktail party, 7:15. The guests play ping pong on deck, 8:15. Guests swim in the on-deck pool, 8:50. Buffet lunch is featured, 9:37. Chefs prepare meals in the kitchen, 10:07. Guests enjoy a treat in their cabin, 10:20. The crew is featured with their advanced equipment, 10:35. The porter makes up the stateroom, 11:10. Willemstad, Curacao is featured, and the couple enjoys Dutch cooking, 12:10. The floating markets of Curacao are featured, 12:50. Caracas, Venezuela is featured, 14:00. Architecture and churches of Venezuela are featured, 1:35. The Humboldt Hotel is shown, 15:00. Playa Azul is shown at sunset, 15:44. The ship lands in Aruba, 16:05. Prehistoric stone monoliths are shown, 16:30. The couple eats at the Bali restaurant at sunset, 17:15. Various services of the ship are featured, 18:15. Baked Alaska is served in the dining room, 18:49. Jamaica is the fourth stop on the cruise, 19:30. Jamaican band plays, 20:20. Haitian dancers and musicians perform, 22:00. The couple dances on the ballroom floor, 23:55. The couple stands on deck by moonlight, 24:50.

The SS Santa Paula was a passenger/cargo ship built for the Grace Line South American service in 1958, later sailing on Caribbean cruises out of New York. She was one of the last US-flagged ocean liners ever built. The SS Santa Paula (3) was built at Newport News Shipbuilding Company with her bigger sister the Santa Rosa for the Grace Line’s renowned New York-Central American service, to replace the two 1932-built 9,100-ton liners of the same names. (The first Grace Line Santa Paula was a 1916-built ship.) She was christened by Pat Nixon, the then-Second Lady of the United State and set sail on her maiden voyage from New York City on October 11, 1958, just one day after preparations for service were completed. Her sister entered service the following year. The ship was considered remarkable for her time, with her fireproof aluminum panel interiors and, unlike other ships of their service, every single cabin had its own bathroom. In the early 1960s Grace abandoned their South American route and put the Santa Paula and her sister on Caribbean cruising service permanently. On November 25, 1964, while the Santa Paula was returning to New York from the Caribbean, the Israeli passenger ship SS Shalom collided with the tanker MV Stolt Dagali, slicing its stern section off. The Santa Paula was the first ship to respond to the SOS sent out by the tanker’s crew, and managed to rescue 25 of the 43 on board. After being operated successfully for 11 years, Grace Line sold their shipping interests to the Prudential Lines, becoming Prudential-Grace Lines. Despite high passenger numbers, in January 1971 she was put out of service and laid up at Hampton Roads, Virginia. Within a year the Santa Paula was sold to Oceanic Sun Line for service as a cruise ship. In the 1970s the ship was converted into a hotel in Kuwait called the The Ramada al Salaam Hotel. Heavily damaged during the occupation of Kuwait by Iraq, she was scrapped in 2002.

SS The Emerald was a cruise ship owned by Louis Cruise Lines (now Celestyal Cruises). She was built in 1958 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock company in Newport News, Virginia, United States, for the Grace Line, as the ocean liner Santa Rosa. Between 1992 and 1995, she sailed for Regency Cruises as Regent Rainbow and between 1997 and 2008, she sailed for Thomson Cruises (now Marella Cruises) as The Emerald. Before retiring in 2009, she was the last passenger ship built at a U.S. shipyard that was still in active service. She was scrapped in 2012.

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