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Preserving the history of retiring cruise ships
Peter Knego has gone to extremes salvaging at-risk history. He says it’s worth the gamble.
As it wound for a week between the Hawaiian islands, everyone else sunbathed and sipped umbrella-topped drinks; the 19-year-old Knego stalked the ship’s disused second- and third-class lounges, still with original fittings from the vessel’s time as an ocean liner shuttling passengers between the United States and the Mediterranean. Last year, he loaned some of his favorite artifacts to a San Diego Maritime Museum exhibit on ocean liner and cruise ship ephemera, and in his online shop, you can browse listings for hand-painted Italian panels or crockery stamped with the orange-and-blue logo of the Hellenic Mediterranean Line. Through a local contact, he negotiated with the shipbreakers to purchase teak decking, mauve loveseats with spindly midcentury legs, a bronze mermaid sculpture by Norwegian artist Per Ung, filling a shipping container to the brim.
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