PHILIPPINES: 1952 - Deck plan w/ color interior photos Companhia Colonial de Navegacao Five desks are shown: Sun

Five desks are shown: Sun Deck with the bridge

corridor by corridor

and soaring oil prices sent her to the breakers in 1975

There is a view at sea with "Manila Floating Hotel & Restaurant airbrushed onto the hull

and CRISTOBAL

PHILIPPINES: 1952 - Deck plan w/ color interior photos Companhia Colonial de Navegacao Five desks are shown: SunItalian Line: A fold out (20" by 24") deck plan for the M S PHILIPPINES, the Manila time warp hotel that was once the sleek AUGUSTUS. In the early 1950s the AUGUSTUS provided design cues for the ANDREA DORIA and other liners. She was sold off in 1976 and ended up as a hotel ship in Manila. And there was sat, decade after decade, sometimes open to the public, and often not. Peter Knego reports that her gorgeous mid century interiors were mostly intact.