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The fleet as of January 1963, painted by Charles Evers for Grace Line promotional materials

The brand-new sisters as painted by Charles Evers for Grace Line advertisements

A fine shot of one of the 15,300-ton, miniature UNITED STATES-like sisters, built in 1958 for service between New York and Curacao, La Guairá, Aruba, Nassau and Port Everglades.

Carl G. Evers' evocative painting of SANTA PAULA sailing through Curacao Harbor. Commissioned by Grace Line in the 1950's.

Tourists watch the SANTA PAULA sail into the harbor at Cartagena, Colombia in a 1950's painting by Carl G. Evers, commissioned by the Grace Line.

One of Carl G. Evers' best-loved illustrations for the Grace line. Passengers at the rail watch dolphins frolic alongside their SANTA liner, while shipmates lounge in and around the pool.

Another Carl G. Evers painting for Grace Line, depicting a SANTA liner departing Cartagena, Colombia.

Another in a series of superb paintings by Carl G. Evers for the Grace Line, which appeared in magazine ads during the 1950's and 60's.

Caribbean coin divers alongside the Santa Paula. One of German-born artist Carl G. Evers (1907-2000) numerous illustrations for the Grace Line, commissioned during the 1950's and 60's. The son of a marine engineer father and an artist mother, Evers attended the Slade School of Fine Arts in London be

Advertisement from the 1930's

Advertisement issued by the Grace Line during World War II

The elegant style offered to 1st Class passengers aboard the 1932 Santa Paula and her sisters epitomised by this illustration of the Drawing Room forward on the Promenade Deck

Buenaventura on the Pacific Coast of Columbia. Grace Line ship photographed prior to 1960.