Even when the Seaport encountered “heavy weather” during and after hurricane Sandy, the Packet found places to fill with sound while awaiting a return to their beloved ships at the Seaport. First singing on the iconic vessel Peking, they have endeavored ever since to keep chantey singing alive in lower Manhattan. The New York Packet was established over 30 years ago as the official maritime singing group of South Street Seaport Museum.
“Sea chanteys fit in beautifully with the New York tradition,” says Laura Norwitz, Seaport Museum Senior Director of Program and Education. “Sailing ships were a melting pot of languages and cultures, and chanteys and forecastle songs, along with hard work and shared challenges, helped sailors merge into one community. When we sing these songs today - some old, and some updated with up-to-the-moment lyrics - we celebrate our connection with our maritime heritage and also with the community we create enjoying home-made music together.” How did they keep their spirits up? Singing together! Work songs and fun songs, story songs and nonsense songs, songs of nostalgia and songs of up-to-the-moment news - all were part of the repertoire onboard. At South Street Seaport Museum, the Chantey tradition lives on. the Royal Arcadia currently remains as Royal Steam Line's flagship and the biggest, fastest and most popular of the companies ships.Old-time sailors on long voyages spent months living together in close quarters with no outside entertainment, no new people to interact with, a monotonous diet, and each day pretty much just like the day before. Just recently she made a historical voyage to Rhodes where she and other Gold Star Line ships were once laid up. From dresses to shoes we empower women to express themselves. She currently makes all around the world cruises and voyages and has been to places such as Antarctica and many other places. At ModCloth we reimagine womens clothing with unique styles & original prints in sizes 00-28. Then a few months later in July of 2016, she got another refit that included placing more superstructure and placing some new propellers, a wave pool, and her bow and hull got some much needed repairs. When her new stern was added, it ended up increasing her making her one of the biggest ships.
Royal Arcadia and transferred to a shipyard to get a huge refit to which she got new funnels, a new stern, a tennis court, and lots of other structural repairs and features added. November 2021 Environmental Action Update for E-News: Danskammer Denied On October 27, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation announced that they had denied the Title V Air Permit for the proposed Danskammer fracked gas plant expansion due to its inability to comply with the goals of New York’s climate law.
After she was sold, the ship got renamed to S.S.
The sell would eventually help Gold Star get back on its feet again. In 2016, the ship was sold to Royal Steam Line since Gold Star Line was about to fail. Eventually Kevin Wright offered to purchase her for his company Royal Steam Line to which she was sold. Before this layup she would have made a charter voyage with Universal Shipping Lines. She made a few successful voyages until Gold Star Line started having financial troubles and had to lay up all of its current fleet at the time including the Arcadia. The ship ended up reaching a top speed of a top speed of 37-38 knots on her sea trials with a cruising speed of 25. Arcadia ordered on October 3rd, 2015 by Nathan Wilson, the owner of Gold Star Line for a girl.