Today marks the 90th anniversary of the SS Morro Castle disaster, which claimed over 130 lives off the coast of New Jersey. To commemorate the tragedy, the Asbury Park Historical Society is hosting a ...

A few days aboard an ocean liner like the lovely Morro Castle offered a brief escape from the dreariness of the Depression for those who could afford it – a brief world of its own traveling between ...

POINT PLEASANT BEACH - Dive boat captain Bill Cleary may have found a long lost and forgotten artifact of the Morro Castle, the famed ocean liner that caught fire and burned off the Jersey Shore, ...

ASBURY PARK - A monument has been dedicated on a New Jersey boardwalk in memory of 137 people who died when a cruise ship caught fire off the coast in 1934. Asbury Park unveiled the black granite ...

Classicist Kuin (Lucian’s Laughing Gods) offers a enthralling intellectual history of Diogenes, the founder of Cynicism—a word derived from the Greek for “dog,” the moniker Continue reading » One Bad ...

Ray Whitley. side 1: Have You Written Mother Lately; side 2: The Morro Castle Disaster (Perfect 13047). 78 rpm. This same coupling was released on other American Record Corporation (ARC) labels.

Last month Captain Robert E. Carey of the Dollar liner President Cleveland was charged with adding to the death toll in the Morro Castle disaster by his delay and incompetence. Last week the two ...